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The organisation has been described in a variety of different ways: a "[[Human Potential Movement|human potential movement]]",[{{Cite book |title=Exploring new religions |last=Chryssides |first=George D. |date=1999 |publisher=Cassell |isbn=978-0-304-33651-7 |location=London |oclc=319493623}}] as providing "mind discipline" for achieving mental quiescence,[{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GdJeKf50EMQC|title=Learning as self-organization |last=Gregory|first=Alan|publisher=Routledge|year=1996|isbn=978-0-8058-2586-2|editor1-last=Přibram|editor1-first=Karl H.|editor1-link=Karl H. Pribram|series=INNS Series of Texts, Monographs, and Proceedings|pages=453–478 |chapter=Language as an Instrument for Self Reorganization|quote=There are many mind disciplines (Silva Mind Control, Zen, The School of Practical Philosophy, etc) for helping one to achieve quiet (quiescent) mind |editor2-last=King |editor2-first=Joseph}}] as a cult, sect or [[new religious movement]],[{{*}}{{cite book|title=New Religious Movements: Challenge and Response |url=https://archive.org/details/newreligiousmove00wils |url-access=limited |last=Slee |first=Colin |publisher=Routledge|year=1999|editor-last1=Wilson|editor-first1=Bryan R.|page=[https://archive.org/details/newreligiousmove00wils/page/n188 170]|chapter=New Religious Movements and the Churches|author-link=Colin Slee|editor-last2=Cresswell|editor-first2=Jamie}}][{{cite book |title=Exploring New Religions |last=Chryssides |first=George D.|publisher=Continuum International Publishing|year=1999|page=374}}] as a non-religious organisation,[{{Cite journal |last1=Walsh |first1=Yvonne |last2=Russell |first2=Robin J.H. |last3=Wells |first3=Pamela A.|date=September 1995|title=The personality of ex-cult members|journal=Personality and Individual Differences |volume=19|issue=3|pages=339–344|doi=10.1016/0191-8869(95)00074-g|issn=0191-8869}}] or a [[plato]]nic community,[{{Cite journal|last=Petsche|first=Johanna J. M. |date=2015|title=Gurdjieffian Overtones in Leon MacLaren's School of Economic Science|journal=International Journal for the Study of New Religions|volume=6|issue=2 |pages=197–219|doi=10.1558/ijsnr.v6i2.28443 }}][{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/worldsreligions0000suth|title=The World's religions|date=1988|publisher=G.K. Hall|isbn=0-8161-8978-1|location=Boston, Mass.|oclc=17353850}}] as "[[Georgism|Georgist]]".[{{Cite book |title=Encyclopedia of new religions: new religious movements, sects and alternative spiritualities |date=2004 |publisher=Lion |editor-last=Partridge |editor-first=Christopher H. |isbn=978-0-7459-5073-0 |location=Oxford |oclc=53390430 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofne0000unse_d3h6 }}][{{cite book|title=Exploring New Religions|last=Chryssides|first=George D.|publisher=Continuum International Publishing|year=1999|page=374}}] SES state that "Advaita does not stand in the place of religion. Rather, as many students in the School of a religious disposition have found, it has the capacity to expand and deepen an understanding of their own religion, whatever it may be. It is equally valuable for, and applicable to, those who practise no religion."[{{Cite book |title=Good company: an anthology of sayings, stories and answers to questions |last=Shantanand Saraswati |first=Swami |date=2004 |publisher=The Society for Study of Normal Psychology |isbn=978-0-9547939-0-6 |location=London |oclc=70043618}}] |
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The organization has been described in a variety of different ways: a "[[Human Potential Movement|human potential movement]]",[{{Cite book |title=Exploring new religions |last=Chryssides |first=George D. |date=1999 |publisher=Cassell |isbn=978-0-304-33651-7 |location=London |oclc=319493623}}] as providing "mind discipline" for achieving mental quiescence,[{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GdJeKf50EMQC|title=Learning as self-organization |last=Gregory|first=Alan|publisher=Routledge|year=1996|isbn=978-0-8058-2586-2|editor1-last=Přibram|editor1-first=Karl H.|editor1-link=Karl H. Pribram|series=INNS Series of Texts, Monographs, and Proceedings|pages=453–478 |chapter=Language as an Instrument for Self Reorganization|quote=There are many mind disciplines (Silva Mind Control, Zen, The School of Practical Philosophy, etc) for helping one to achieve quiet (quiescent) mind |editor2-last=King |editor2-first=Joseph}}] as a cult, sect or [[new religious movement]],[{{*}}{{cite book|title=New Religious Movements: Challenge and Response |url=https://archive.org/details/newreligiousmove00wils |url-access=limited |last=Slee |first=Colin |publisher=Routledge|year=1999|editor-last1=Wilson|editor-first1=Bryan R.|page=[https://archive.org/details/newreligiousmove00wils/page/n188 170]|chapter=New Religious Movements and the Churches|author-link=Colin Slee|editor-last2=Cresswell|editor-first2=Jamie}}][{{cite book |title=Exploring New Religions |last=Chryssides |first=George D.|publisher=Continuum International Publishing|year=1999|page=374}}] as a non-religious organization,[{{Cite journal |last1=Walsh |first1=Yvonne |last2=Russell |first2=Robin J.H. |last3=Wells |first3=Pamela A.|date=September 1995|title=The personality of ex-cult members|journal=Personality and Individual Differences |volume=19|issue=3|pages=339–344|doi=10.1016/0191-8869(95)00074-g|issn=0191-8869}}] or a [[plato]]nic community,[{{Cite journal|last=Petsche|first=Johanna J. M. |date=2015|title=Gurdjieffian Overtones in Leon MacLaren's School of Economic Science|journal=International Journal for the Study of New Religions|volume=6|issue=2 |pages=197–219|doi=10.1558/ijsnr.v6i2.28443 }}][{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/worldsreligions0000suth|title=The World's religions|date=1988|publisher=G.K. Hall|isbn=0-8161-8978-1|location=Boston, Mass.|oclc=17353850}}] as "[[Georgism|Georgist]]". |
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Commentators have pointed out that SES members do not consider it to be a religion, rather a philosophy, and some members, for example, may well be committed to mainstream churches.[{{Cite book |title=Encyclopedia of new religions: new religious movements, sects and alternative spiritualities |date=2004 |publisher=Lion |editor-last=Partridge |editor-first=Christopher H. |isbn=978-0-7459-5073-0 |location=Oxford |oclc=53390430 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofne0000unse_d3h6 }}][{{cite book|title=Exploring New Religions|last=Chryssides|first=George D.|publisher=Continuum International Publishing|year=1999|page=374}}] SES state that "Advaita does not stand in the place of religion. Rather, as many students in the School of a religious disposition have found, it has the capacity to expand and deepen an understanding of their own religion. It is equally valuable for, and applicable to those who practice no religion."[{{Cite book |title=Good company: an anthology of sayings, stories and answers to questions |last=Shantanand Saraswati |first=Swami |date=2004 |publisher=The Society for Study of Normal Psychology |isbn=978-0-9547939-0-6 |location=London |oclc=70043618}}] |
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