Karikas Translation Tantric Saivaism and Other Contemplations - Peter Wilberg

TANTRIC VERSE
PHILOSOPHY
'KARIKAS' OF THE NEW YOGA
Peter Wilberg
PREFACE ........................................................................................................................... 3
WHAT ARE THE TENETS OF TANTRA?................................................................................ 4

WHAT IS THE WISDOM OF TANTRA?................................................................................ 5
WHAT IS ULTIMATE REALITY?............................................................................................ 6
WHAT ARE THINGS? ......................................................................................................... 8
WHAT ARE WORLDS? ..................................................................................................... 9
WHAT IS THE NEW YOGA?........................................................................................... 10
WHAT IS FREEDOM? ..................................................................................................... 11
WHAT IS KNOWING?...................................................................................................... 17
WHAT ARE AWARENESS & CONSCIOUSNESS?......................................................... 20
WHAT IS THE BODY?....................................................................................................... 23
WHAT BODY IS IT? .......................................................................................................... 24
WHAT ARE YOU? ............................................................................................................ 28
WHO ARE YOU? ............................................................................................................. 29
WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF AWARENESS? ....................................................................... 30
WHAT IS THINKING?..................................................................................................... 34
WHAT IS FEELING?........................................................................................................ 38
WHAT IS THE FIELD?...................................................................................................... 40
WHAT IS THE SOUL?...................................................................................................... 41
WHAT ARE MIND AND BODY?..................................................................................... 43
WHAT IS DIVINE SPEECH? ............................................................................................ 45
WHAT IS MINDFULNESS? .............................................................................................. 46
WHAT IS MEDITATION? .................................................................................................. 47
WHAT IS GOD?............................................................................................................. 51
WHAT IS GOD TO YOU?............................................................................................... 52
WHAT IS THE GENDER OF GOD? ................................................................................... 53
WHAT ARE THE POWERS OF AWARENESS? ................................................................... 54
WHAT IS ELEMENTAL MATTER?..................................................................................... 55
WHAT IS PRANA? ......................................................................................................... 57
WHAT IS AWARENESS?................................................................................................... 60
WHAT IS GURU?............................................................................................................ 61
WHAT IS THE DIVINE AWARENESS? ............................................................................... 62
WHAT ARE THE GODS? .................................................................................................. 64
WHAT IS OUR PRAYER? .................................................................................................. 68
WHAT IS PUJA?............................................................................................................... 70
WHAT IS THE SHIVA LINGAM? ....................................................................................... 72
WHAT IS LIBERATION? .................................................................................................... 74
WHAT IS THE SUPREME SELF? ......................................................................................... 78
WHAT IS SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION?................................................................................. 82
WHAT IS SHIVA?........................................................................................................... 83
WHAT AM I? ................................................................................................................... 84
PREFACE
Despite Martin Heideggers understanding of the kinship of thinking (Denken)
and poetising (Dichten), philosophy is not normally associated in Western
thought with verse form. In the East, not least in the tantric tradition of Kashmir
Shaivism, karika(s) are metaphysical verses on philosophical and linguistic
themes. Among the most famous of these are the Spandakarikas of
Kshemaraja - themselves commentaries on the foundational revelatory
aphorisms or sutra(s) of Vasugupta - the Shiva-Sutras. The literal meaning of
sutra is thread. Tantra means loom or weave. Thus a karika can be
considered as the weaving together of different threads (sutra) of thought in
the form of verse stanzas. Even if seemingly abstract or metaphysical in
content, karikas are nevertheless religiously inspired. Hence the tradition of
beginning and ending them with propitiatory verses dedicated to the authors
deity and to his teacher or guru. In this way they bring out the third dimension
of Heideggers threefold, not only Denken (thinking) and Dichten (poetising)
but also Danken - thanking. An example is provided in the dedicatory verses
of the Spandakarikas:
She, who is ever conscious of the vitality of mantra, who is the endless
flash of the perfect and complete I-consciousness whose essence
consists of a multitude of letters, who is the goddess embodying
gnosis, ever knows the totality of categories from the Earth up to Shiva,
which is one in substance with her own Self, and portrayed out of Her
own nature on the canvas of Her own free, clear Self, just as a city is
reflected in a mirror (from which it is non-separate).
In this world, the excessive greatness of Self was revealed to the
exalted preceptor Vasugupta by Shivas inspiration. He received
instruction in a dream and thus, on Mahadeva mountain, he obtained
through divine will the most esoteric Shiva-Sutras He, by
demonstrating the agreement of revelation, experience and
reasoning, put together the import of the sutras in an abridged form by
means of 51 verses which were deep in sense but expressed in lucid
form.
All glory to the Supreme Creative Pulsation of awareness which is the
abode of flashing, uparalleled delight whose majesty of path extends
to far-reaching areas, from the earth up to Shiva This is the work of
Kshemaraja who has received instruction from Abhinavagupta, the
great devotee of the great Lord.
Jaideva Singh Spanda-Karikas The Divine Creative Pulsation
What follows is the first collection of karikas in the tradition of Kashmir Shaivism
to be compiled in the 21st century. They seek to condense (Dichten) in lucid
form the essence of what I call The New Yoga of Awareness - Tantric Wisdom
for Todays World. Thus I dedicate them to Kshemaraja, whose karikas first
inspired my own, and to the writings of his great teacher or preceptor -
Abhinavagupta.
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WHAT ARE THE TENETS OF TANTRA?
JUST AS THERE IS
NOTHING OUTSIDE AWARENESS
SO THERE IS NOTHING OUTSIDE GOD
GOD IS NOTHING BUT AWARENESS
AWARENESS IS
ALL THAT IS AND MORE
GOD IS EVERYTHING AND MORE
GOD IS WITHIN EVERYTHING.
EVERYTHING IS WITHIN GOD
EVERYTHING IS GOD
EVERYTHING IS AWARENESS
AWARENESS IS GOD
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WHAT IS THE WISDOM OF TANTRA?
The Wisdom of Tantra:

God is not a being with Awareness.
God is Awareness, unbounded and all-encompassing.
God is within everything because Awareness is within everything.
There is nothing outside God, because there is nothing outside Awareness.
Awareness is not a property or by-product of our bodies, our brains or of any being.
Yet there is no thing - no body or being - that is not a portion of the Divine Awareness.
Therefore to truly recognise God in all things is to recognise Awareness in all things.
God IS everything because Awareness is everything, - and because everything
Is a shape of Awareness, composed of the divine God-stuff of Awareness.
Awareness is the divine source of all things - of all bodies and all beings.
Awareness alone is also absolute and divine Freedom - liberating us
From bondage to anything we happen to be aware OF.
So whatever you are currently aware of,
Just BE the Awareness of it.
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WHAT IS ULTIMATE REALITY?
Without
AWARENESS,
There would be nothing at all
No things and no thoughts
To think them with.
No Worlds
To be Aware of,
And no Words for them.
No Earth, Sun, Sea or Sky,
Matter, Energy, Space or Time.
No Bodies or Beings.
No-thing.
AWARENESS
Therefore, can belong to
No one, no being and no body.
Nobody has or possesses Awareness.
No plant, animal or human being.
Yet every body and every being
Every thing and every thought
Every sensation or emotion
IS AN AWARENESS.
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The Ultimate Truth -
EVERYTHING IS AN AWARENESS
Every landmass, ocean, river and cloud,
Every particle and atom, cell and organism.
Every rock and plant, fish and animal.
Every body in space and time.
Every planet and star.
Every Universe.
To be aware of any reality at all,
Any thought or thing, being or body, self or world,
There needs first of all to be the reality of Awareness.
Yet if every reality also IS an Awareness, then
AWARENESS ITSELF IS ALL THERE IS
Ultimate Reality.
ANUTTARA.
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WHAT ARE THINGS?
Everything is aware.
Everything is an awareness.
A flower for example, is an awareness
As is any thing - from an atom or cell to a
Body, feeling, thought, word, person, or god.
Therefore the simple awareness of a flower is
An awareness of an awareness - not just
An awareness that the flower is, but
An awareness of the awareness
That is the flower
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WHAT ARE WORLDS?
Nothing in the world is not aware.
Every thing we are aware of is itself an awareness.
Every thing we are aware of is part of an awareness world.
Everything we are aware of in the world has its own awareness world.
All worlds, and every thing in them, are each and all awareness worlds.
Aware of this, our awareness expands to embrace new awareness worlds.
Each of us is nothing but a unique awareness of the world an awareness world.
The horizon of our being and of our world is thus the horizon of our awareness.
Our very being is nothing but an awareness of being and of being in a world.
The very essence of our being is a world embracing awareness.
All things in the world and all worlds are awareness worlds.
God is awareness as such - and as such embraces and
Pervades all things and all their worlds,
For they are all awareness worlds.
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WHAT IS THE NEW YOGA?
First, it is a yoga of Awareness.

Secondly, it is a yoga of the Body.
Thirdly, it is a yoga of Communication
This is the first ABC of The New Yoga:
Awareness - Bodyhood Communication.
Yet The New Yoga is also more than this A, B and C, for
Awareness, Bodyhood and Communication cannot be separated.
Awareness has its own Bodily shape, sensuality and substantiality.
Bodyhood being the sensual shape and substantiality of our Awareness.
Our body is itself and most essentially an Awareness Body.
Yet Awareness also Communicates,
Whether or not it is expressed in words or actions.
Our Awareness of others, the way we feel them with our Bodies,
Is something that Communicates directly to them.
This is the second ABC of The New Yoga.
In feeling other beings
We also touch and are touched by them.
We feel and give form to this direct Communication of Awareness
With our feeling body, our soul body, our Awareness Body.
All bodies are essentially Awareness Bodies in Communication.
All awareness is essentially a Bodily Awareness of Communication.
And all communication is a Bodily Communication of Awareness.
The New Yoga is the yoga of
Awareness, Bodyhood and Communication
Thus the essential ABC of The New Yoga is
Awareness, Body and Communication.
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WHAT IS FREEDOM?
Remember
Always and forever,
All days, and at each and
Every moment of your life:
AWARENESS alone is
FREEDOM.
Your
Awareness
Of a thought
Is not itself a thought.
It is an awareness
That is free of
Thought.
Your
Awareness
Of a perception
Is not itself a perception.
It is an awareness free of perception.
Your awareness of an emotion
Is not itself an emotion.
But is an awareness
Free of emotion.
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Your
Awareness
Of a bodily sensation
Is not itself a sensation,
But is an awareness
Free of sensation.
You are not aware because

You see and hear, think and feel things.
For through your very awareness of seeing and hearing,
Thinking and feeling things, your awareness is itself
Freed from the things you are aware of,
Making you truly aware.
Yet when your

Awareness becomes confined
To some thing you are aware of, it becomes unfree,
Bound to that thing, or to the thought of it.
Trapped by one thing or another.
Therefore:
Do not attend to things, but
Attend to your awareness of those things
Then your awareness becomes free of them.
You will begin to feel your own
Free-awareness field.
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If you find it difficult to
Attend to your awareness of something,
Then be aware of other things at the same time.
In this way, by uniting your awareness of
One thing with that of another, you
Free it from both things.
So if you feel
A pain in a part of your head.
Or a disturbing thought comes to mind in it.
Attend not to the pain or thought but to your
Awareness of the pain or thought, wherever
You sense it in your head.
Attend also to your awareness of

Your head as a whole, not just the pain or thought within it;
To your awareness of your trunk as a whole, not just your head.
And to your awareness of other parts of your body,
Such as your feet and legs, your lower body.
Or better still, attend to your

Awareness of your body surface as a whole,
Your awareness of the entire space around it, and of
All other bodies you are aware of within that surrounding space.
Then feel your bodys inwardness as a hollow space of awareness,
And feel your body surface itself as a breathing membrane between
Its own outer and inner spaces of awareness, uniting them
Through your breathing into a singular awareness field,
Your larger field and larger body of awareness.
Then you can come to feel your awareness
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As a blessed air, and as a breeze that circulates like air,
Filling the space around you and enveloping all objects within it.
This is an air that, like the air around a house, invisibly surrounds
The very walls whose inner spaces you find yourself within.
An air that invisibly circulates not only around you, but
Beneath the very ground under your feet.
When your awareness of things

Floats free of all the things you are aware of, then
All thing can come to float in the infinite expanse
And all things can sink into the infinite depths
Of your free awareness field.
Every thing,
Every body in space
Has a holy space, a spacious
Hollow of awareness within it.
It also has a halo, a hallowed
Space of awareness
Around it.
Feeling the sublime

Spaciousness of your awareness field
You can come to feel the blessed holy air of your awareness
As the hallowed essence of breath, of the air you exhale and
Inhale, an air absorbed through the very pores of your skin,
An air that fills the holy hollow of every cell in
Your divine awareness body.
Just as awareness
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Can be breathed as a blessed air.
A subtle, all surrounding breeze or draught
So it can also be sensed as a flowing fluid warmth
A radiant light, a myriad of sparkling colours.
Or a symphony of silent sounds.
The free awareness field is a source of

Countless sensual qualities of awareness, subtle and intense,
Countless flows and figurations, colourations and tonalities of
awareness.
By attending to your awareness of sensory qualities, you can begin to
Experience the richly sensual qualities of awareness itself.
There is awareness of outwardness, of actuality.

And there is awareness of inwardness, of unbounded potentiality.
There is your awareness of actual things and their sensory qualities,
And there are potential qualities of awareness itself, no less sensual.
These potentialities of awareness, darkly latent in the light of your
Free awareness field, are the inwardness that is the source of
All outwardness, flowing through and forming all things.
Parashiva the very light and lightness

Of the all surrounding, all pervading free awareness field
Parashakti, the vitality of awareness that fills all actual things.
Durga, the dark inwardness of potentiality
That is their very well-spring.
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Yet are not all colours formed of light and darkness?
Do not all things shimmer and quiver with the exquisite
Vibration of their own as-yet unsensed potentials, all those
Immanent powers that She, the Great Goddess, Mahadevi,
Makes solid and manifest as matter, as all things we are aware of?
Letting them manifest in our free awareness field, and thus
Shine forth as its very self-manifestation - and yours?
For what is
Your ownmost, innermost
Most divine Self, if it is not the constant
Shimmering, shining forth of the free awareness field itself,
The very air of awareness itself that we can each breathe freely?
This awareness is not frozen or fixated by any-thing in the world, for
It envelops and pervades all possible things, all possible worlds.
It is that Self which is no thought and no-thing, and yet
Which is not nothing, for it is all possible
Qualities of Awareness itself.
Free to be them all.
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WHAT IS KNOWING?
(with special acknowledgements to Andrew Gara)
True knowledge is direct AWARENESS.
Truly knowing means BEING AWARE.
Awareness is not just

Knowing you are going into the kitchen,
To cook, wash up or make a cup of tea or coffee, and
Not just knowing you are cooking, washing up or making tea, but
Being AWARE of every aspect of your bodily and
Sensory EXPERIENCE of doing so.

Knowing what you think
About someone or something, but
BEING AWARE of thinking particular thoughts
About those things and people.

Knowing in your own mind
What you feel about something or someone,
Not just knowing what you feel in your mind, but
Being aware of those feelings in your
Body and feeling them in an
Immediate, bodily way.
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Knowing what you are doing
Whenever you do it, and whatever it is, but
BEING AWARE of every aspect of your immediate, bodily and sensory
Experience of doing it, and of all the thoughts behind or
Accompanying that AWARE EXPERIENCING of action.
Awareness is not just knowing

That you are feeling or thinking something;
Seeing or hearing something, touching or handling something,
Walking somewhere or talking to someone, breathing or speaking, but
Being aware of every aspect of your immediate sensory,
Bodily and mental experience of doing so.

Knowing your own mind and
Acting or reacting accordingly, without awareness, but
Being aware of where your actions and reactions are coming from,
Aware of the thoughts and feelings they express, and
Aware too of the BODILY EXPERIENCE of yourself
That is reflected in that mind
You think you know.
Awareness is not
Mental, verbal or intellectual knowing.
It is not even unaware, tacit or silent knowing.
It is the other way round.
True knowing is
AWARENESS.
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Only if you are aware
Of what you think you know,
Can you truly know that which
You are aware of.
Ultimate truth is
KNOWING AWARENESS.
This knowing awareness is
Not simply an awareness of things.
It is that primordial awareness
Which is the very source of
All things and all beings;
Of all there is to be
Aware of, and all
That is and can
Be known.
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WHAT ARE AWARENESS & CONSCIOUSNESS?
If people get lost in

Any form of activity or experiencing,
Whether thinking or talking, watching TV
Engaging in their work or in everyday chores,
Worrying about their life, or just feeling particular
Emotions, sensations, pains or pleasures,
Then though they may be conscious,
Yet they are not AWARE.
Thus you may be conscious

Of making yourself a cup of coffee.
Yet how aware are you of your whole body and of
Your breathing as you do so, of your every accompanying
Thought and feeling, and of the feel of each object you handle?
And how aware are you of the other things and people in the
Space around you as you consciously
Make your cup of coffee?
Similarly, you may be

Conscious of what you are seeing on TV
Or what you are hearing another person say.
Yet how aware are you of your own body
As you do so, of other objects in the
Room besides the TV, and of the
Whole body of the person
As they speak?
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Whenever our attention gets
Focussed or fixated on any one thing
We are experiencing or conscious of,
We lose AWARENESS.
Unlike consciousness,
AWARENESS is not focussed on
Any one thing we consciously experience.
Awareness is more like the SPACE
Surrounding us and all things
We experience within it;
Inseparable and yet
Distinct from them.
Consciousness is
Ego-awareness, an awareness
Focussed on or identified with some
Element of our experience.
Awareness is more than just

Ego-awareness - FOCAL awareness.
It is a FIELD awareness that embraces every
Single element of our experience, whilst
Remaining distinct from them all.
To be AWARE
Does not mean watching,
Observing or witnessing the
Contents of our consciousness
For that would imply a second,
Split-off, witnessing self.
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The Self that is truly
AWARE is not an alter-ego
Or second self that has or possesses
Awareness as its private property.
It IS awareness.
Self-awareness
is not the property of
Any ego, I or self that
We can experience - any EXPERIENCED self.
Instead it is the EXPERIENCING self that is nothing but
AWARENESS itself and as such - an awareness that embraces
Every possible self or I we can experience and
Every possible content of consciousness,
Whilst at the same time transcending
All such contents of consciousness.
For it is nothing but the pure
AWARENESS
Of them.
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WHAT IS THE BODY?
How do know you have a body?

Because you can see it in the mirror?
Because others see it from the outside?
Because anatomists have explored its insides?
Or because you feel it are aware of it - from the inside?
Your body is no mere bodily thing you carry around.
Instead, even as an object, the Body is but the outwardly
Perceived form of your inwardly felt Self.
It is not some physical thing

That you happen to feel from within.
Nor is it an awareness bounded by your skin.
It is an inwardly felt boundary of your awareness.
Dividing all that you feel as me from all you perceive as not-me.
Your body then, is a body of feeling awareness of soul.
Yet this is not a soul confined within your body, for like
The very space around your body, it embraces
Every other body within it, not just your own.
Awareness as such - like space - is nothing bodily.

Thus too, awareness of being a body is not itself something bodily.
It is formless - like the space that surrounds and permeates all bodies.
Awareness IS that space, distinct but inseparable from bodies within it.
Your body, like all bodies, is a bodily form OF this formless awareness.
It is formed from within a boundless, bodiless space OF awareness.
What is the body? It is bodiless awareness of bodyhood.
Felt as a bodily shape and texture OF awareness.
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WHAT BODY IS IT?
What body is it
That feels inwardly closer
Or more distant to others,
However near or far they are
In space and time?
What body is it
With which we sense another persons
Inner warmth or coolness of feeling,
And our own?
What body is it
With which we sense
The levity or weighty gravity,
Lightness or heaviness
Brightness or darkness.
Of a persons moods,
And of our own?
What body is it
That now feels light and airy
Now meltingly warm and fluid
Now heavy and dense?
What body is it
With which we feel high or low
Uplifted, down, or beside ourselves
At home in our bodies, spaced out,
Or confined in our skins,
As in a cage?
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What body is it
With which we feel
Drawn out of ourselves, or
Into which we feel withdrawn into ourselves,
As if into some warm and nurturing womb
Or else some cold and solitary
Prison or tomb?
What body is it
Whose felt surface boundary can
Seem to expand or contract from within,
Rigidify or loosen from within, feeling like
A sensitive and vulnerable skin,
A tight and constrictive skin,
A porous, breathing skin,
A rubbery diving suit,
Or a loose-fitting
Garment?
What body is it
That can feel like
A grey will o the wisp,
Or a translucent and
Multi-coloured
Raiment?
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What is this body which
We can each feel in all
These many different ways?
It is our inwardly felt body
It is our Feeling Body.
The body with which
We feel ourselves,
And others too.
It is not the fleshly body

With its physical senses and sensations,
With which we feel our selves in all these ways,
Not the physical body we can measure and weigh.
Instead it is our inner body - our body of feeling awareness
Composed of all the sensual and spatial dimensions
Of feeling that make up our own soul.
It is our soul body, a body whose
Feeling awareness is unbounded
By the fleshly skin, whose only
Boundaries are boundaries
Of feeling awareness.
With what body except this

Can we dissolve the fleshly boundaries
The fleshly boundaries that seem to
Separate us in space from others?
With which our soul can feel its
Way into the bodies of other,
And feel their soul in ours?
It is our soul body.
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What body is it
That both in-forms
And survives the flesh?
It is our awareness body,
Our soul body.
Your fleshly body is but the

Outer form taken by your soul.
That soul is nothing disembodied.
It is indeed your true body,
Your eternal inner form,
Ever-transforming.
It bears the resonant trace of all

All the bodies you have ever been, and
Every body you have ever encountered.
It is this body that in-forms your very genes,
And takes form as all the manifold
Figures of your imagination,
And of your dreams.
It is not composed
Of tissue, bone and blood.
It is that very stuff of which
Shakespeare spoke, that stuff
Of which dreams are made of,
And from which we
Make ourselves.
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WHAT ARE YOU?
You are all

That you can feel.
If you can feel the colours
Of a glorious sunset, then
The feeling you have of that sunset
Becomes a felt part of what you are.
If you feel the joy or sadness of another.
Then that joy or sadness is part of what you are.
You are not a being that happens to just have feelings.
The only limits to your being are the limits of your feeling awareness.
Feelings are not something we happen to be aware of as human beings.
They are the felt qualities of awareness that define our being.
Feeling is not something bounded by our fleshly bodies.
It is what allows us to feel every body around us,
In the entire field of our feeling awareness.
With your own body you give form
To what you most truly are, to
What you feel yourself to be
To your field being.
Your feeld being.
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WHO ARE YOU?
Who are you?

You are not what you think.
You are not the self you experience.
You are not your experience of yourself.
You are not your experience of the world.
You are more than the sum of all your experiences.
You are more than the sum of all you ever have experienced.
You are the awareness of all you experience within and around you.
You are not your body or mind, perceptions, emotions or actions.
You are the awareness of all these elements of your experience.
That awareness transcends your body, mind and emotions.
That awareness is not bounded by your body or mind.
That awareness is not even your personal property.
Still less is it a property of your mind, body or brain.
It does not belong to you. You belong to it.
For you, your body and your mind, are
Shapes taken by that awareness,
Within that awareness.
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WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF AWARENESS?
Are we aware
By virtue of our having
Minds and bodily sense organs, or
Because we have thoughts and perceptions,
Emotions and sensations, or because
We experience diverse impulses
Urges, pleasures
Or pains?
Is awareness
A by-product of our bodies and brain?
Or are our bodies themselves all bodies in space
But the bodily shapes taken by our field of awareness
The field or feel-d of our feeling awareness of other beings?
Do we feel because we have bodies and brains,
But because we are feeling beings?
Because
Our bodies are
The fleshly embodiment
Of all that we feel, within and around us.
The bodying and embodiment of
Our feeling awareness, our
Field awareness, our
Free awareness
Field.
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No body,
Even our own,
Can possibly be perceived
Except by appearing within a field of awareness.
How then can awareness be localised in our bodies or brains,
When all bodies are but localised perceptual
Shapes, tones and qualities of awareness,
Taking shape in fields of awareness.
Visible only in the light of our awareness?
How can our bodies or brains be the

Biological basis or origin of awareness,
When they are but the felt shape of our awareness
Giving form to the way we
Feel ourselves to be?
Awareness is
Not a blank mirror,
Not an empty vessel,
A void waiting to be filled with
Sensations and perceptions,
Emotions and
thoughts.
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Awareness
Has its own felt,
Sensual qualities of
Lightness or heaviness.
Brightness or darkness,
Spacious openness
Or closedness.
Warmth or
Coolness.
Our field of
Feeling awareness
Brightens and darkens,
Expands and contracts,
Dulls or sharpens
Like a sound,
It is coloured by those
Feeling tones we call moods,
Those felt tonalities of awareness,
That colour the whole way we feel ourselves,
The way we feel other people, experience.
The world around us, and
And each object
In it.
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Awareness
Has its own innate
Spatiality and substantiality,
Sometimes felt as diffuse and airy.
Other times as viscous and fluid.
Light and fiery or dense or solid.
This elemental substantiality
Of awareness, is the very
Matter of mind,
MANA.
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WHAT IS THINKING?
Thinking is not just having thoughts about things.

Thinking is being aware of having the thoughts we have.
Not being aware of the thoughts we have,

How can we be said to be thinking at all?
Just having thoughts about things, we lose

Awareness of our thoughts as thoughts.
Just having thoughts about things, we lose direct

Awareness of the things we are thinking about.
Losing direct awareness, we easily confuse our thoughts

About things with our direct awareness of those things.
Not being aware of our thoughts, we sacrifice direct

Awareness of things to our thoughts about them.
Only by being aware of the thoughts we have, can we

Compare them with this direct awareness of things.
The thoughts we have can easily fixate

Awareness on just one thing or aspect of it.
Being aware of the thoughts we have, they do not

Become fixated on any one thing or aspect of it.
Being aware of our thoughts, a space opens

For the awareness of many things at the same time.
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Just as having thoughts fixates our awareness on things,
So does reasoning fixate our thoughts on other thoughts.
Reasoning is having thoughts about other thoughts.

That is not the same thing at all as aware thinking.
With awareness of our thoughts, we do not need to

Reason out their connection with each other.
Having thoughts, we easily get locked or

Lost in thought - in thinking about things.
Being aware of thoughts, we do not

Get locked or lost in those thoughts.
Being aware of thoughts, we can freely

Let them come and go within awareness.
The awareness of a thing is not itself a thing.

The awareness of a thought is not itself a thought.
The awareness of thought is itself

A pure, thought-free awareness!
Since the awareness of thought is itself thought-free,

There is no need to empty our minds of thoughts.
Simply being aware of our thoughts we can

Abide in a field of pure, thought-free awareness.
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And we can experience that field of pure awareness
As the divine source of all thoughts - and of all things.
We ourselves are living thoughts made flesh in the

Infinite awareness field that is God - the divine.
Thoughts are not reflections on or of things, but

They are reflections of the divine light of awareness.
Things are radiant manifestations of that light,

Composed of countless photons of awareness.
Thoughts and things are both forms taken

By the divine light of awareness itself.
The light of pure awareness is that light which

First allows us to be aware of any thing at all.
The light of pure awareness is that light in which

All things and all thoughts first come to light.
Pure thinking is the innate intelligence of that light,

Knowing itself as the source of all thoughts and things.
Look around you and be aware of all the things that

Are visible in the light that fills the space around them.
Know that light itself is that very awareness

In which all things and thoughts come to light.
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See how things glisten and shine in that light.
Recognise them as expressions of that light.
Thoughts can shed light on things or

Cast distorting shadows on them.
Thoughts that arise from pure awareness,

Crystallise our direct awareness of things.
Only through awareness of thoughts, can things

Themselves reveal themselves in their true light.
The revelation of things in the pure

Light of awareness that is thinking.
Thinking has no objects - for like things, it is

A shining expression of the Supreme Subject.
"It is I, The Great Lord, who - as Pure

Awareness - always shines thus as all Things."
This 'thusness' or 'thisness' of things

Is their very 'thought' itself - illumined.
(Quotation from the Paratrishika-Vivarana of Abhinavagupta)
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WHAT IS FEELING?
The word feeling is a verb.

That means feeling is something we do.
If we cannot feel a finger of our own hand.
We cannot feel an object with that finger.
Nor feel the way the object
Feels to our touch.
If we cannot
Feel any part of our body.
We can feel no other body with it.
If we cannot feel our body as a whole.
Then nor can we feel
Some-body else.
Feeling is not
Something bounded
By our physical body or skin.
Just looking at a distant object, we also
Feel the way it would feel to our touch.
Seeing it at a distance, we also
Feel its surface texture,
Its material density.
The tone it would
Make if struck.
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Our feeling body is a field body.
The spacious field of our feeling awareness.
With it we can feel the space behind us, and those
Beneath and beside us, no less than those before our eyes.
With it, we can feel the presence of nearby objects.
Like the blind, who feel their way through space.
Whose seeing is a feeling sight.
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WHAT IS THE FIELD?
What is
The Field?
The Field is the Feel-d
It is not an energy field.
The Feeld is the spacious field of our
Feeling awareness of ourselves and others,
Of our own bodies, and of all other bodies in space.
It is the very space of our feeling awareness,
The field of our feeling awareness.
It is a feeling-field.
It is quite simply
space, as we
Feel it.
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WHAT IS THE SOUL?
The Soul is our

Own inwardly felt Body.
But this is a field body unbounded by the flesh.
An awareness body whose only boundaries are
The boundaries of awareness we place
Between I and not-I
Self and World.
The only
Boundary of the soul is
A field-boundary of awareness
That enables us to feel our
Own insideness and
outsideness.
Yet all
That we see outside us
Is also something we can feel within.
Our inwardly felt body is the soul body
With which we feel our own
Insideness and
Outsidenes.
The body with which

We feel ourselves, and with which
We can also feel others, not only outside
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But within ourselves.
It is through feeling others
With our selves, we come to feel
Our own other selves.
The soul is a body.

A body made up not of cells
But of selves, each with their own body,
Every soul is thus a group of selves
Some of which we identify as
Ourself, whereas others
We identify with
Others.
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WHAT ARE MIND AND BODY?
Mind and body,

The word and the flesh are
Both the outwardness of
The soul.
The soul
Is not the mind.
It is the resonant inwardness of
Both mind and body,
Word and flesh.
The soul
Is not the body.
The body is the speech of the soul
Its inner word or logos become flesh.
With our souls we inwardly
Sound, speak and sing
Our fleshly bodies
Into being, thus
Bodying our
Being.
Psychology
Is the logos of the psyche.
Its sounding, singing word or speech
Psycho-logy is
soul-speech.
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Soul-speech is that
Living language of the soul, by which
We quite literally utter our own bodies.
Soul-speech is a language of inner soul sounds.
These soul sounds cannot be uttered with the body.
They are the sounds with which we utter our bodies.
Outer sounds are shapings of vibratory tone.
Inner sounds are shapings of
Inner feeling tone.
Every self that

Is part of our soul, has its
Own inner sound and feeling tone.
It is a unique way of feeling ourselves,
Feeling the world, and
Feeling others.
The soul has

No name we can utter.
For it is an entire alphabet
Of inner sounds and inner selves.
Combined and recombined in countless names.
Inner sounds take the form of both consonant and vowel.
Through these soul-sounds we per-sonify who we are
Through the consonants we embody our souls.
Through the inner vowels we
Ensoul our bodies.
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If the body of a word is its sound,
Then the soul of that word is its sense.
This sense is its inner sound or resonance.
The word of the soul is a body of inner sound.
Every visible body is a three-dimensional sound.
It is a word shaped by the speech of the soul.
Inner sense or meaning materialised
As sense-perceptible matter,
Through inner sound.
WHAT IS DIVINE SPEECH?
The world is the word of the Divine Soul

Springing from its Divine Speech
A singing, sounding speech
Whose source is a single
Fundamental tone,
Seeding all souls
With its sacred
Syllable.
OM
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WHAT IS MINDFULNESS?
Mind is not soul.

Yet mindfulness is
Mindfulness of soul.
And mindfulness of soul means
Mindfulness of our inwardly felt body.
That inwardly felt body is our feeling body.
It is a field body unbounded by the flesh
With it we feel ourselves and others.
With it we give bodily form to
Whatsoever and whosoever
We feel ourselves to be.
It is our eternal form,
Ever-transforming.
Our body eternal.
Our eternally
Bodying
Soul.
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WHAT IS MEDITATION?
What is meditation?
Is it sitting cross-legged, straight-backed
Eyes closed, trying and maybe failing - not to think?
Seeking to concentrate inwardly, single-pointedly,
Free of the distractions of your senses, of
Your mind and body?
That is not the essence of meditation.

For meditation needs no fixed body posture,
Only awareness of your whole bodily posture,
Whatever it is and whenever you
Change it in any way.
Meditation does not need you to

Keep your body still, face Buddha-masked,
Only that you be aware of your movements,
And of every muscle of your body,
Limbs, face and eyes.

Cease all thinking, feeling, seeing and hearing.
Only that you be aware of your thoughts and feelings.
Only that you be aware of your mind and body.
And aware too, of your sensory environment.
That means keeping your eyes open
And your senses alive.
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Free yourself from body, mind or the senses.
For awareness of your body is not itself anything bodily.
Just as awareness of mind is not itself anything mental.
Just as awareness of a thought is not itself a thought.
And awareness of a thing is not itself a thing.
Instead awareness itself is thought-free,
Sense-free and body-free.
Meditation is a pure,
Bodiless awareness of your body.
A pure thought-free awareness of your thoughts.
A pure impulse and desire-free awareness of your desires
A pure action-free awareness of action.
And a pure sense-free awareness of
All things bright and beautiful,
And all things dark and ugly.
Meditation is not
Something you need set aside times to do.
For there is nothing you need do to meditate,
Except give yourself time to be aware -
At any time, and for as long a time
As you can sustain.

Close your eyes, wrap yourself in a bubble,
Or shut yourself off from the world around you,
In order to go inside yourself.
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Meditation means fully
Opening yourself to the space around you,
Whilst staying within yourself.
Meditation is not
Single-pointed concentration, but
Expanding your awareness to more fully
Embrace all possible focal points of attention,
Both within and around you, yet without need for
Single-minded concentration on
Any one focus of attention.
Meditation means
Taking time to give yourself more space,
To feel more free awareness space within and around you,
It means identifying with the seeming emptiness of space.
It means living and dwelling in pure awareness
As you live and dwell in space itself.
Meditation means knowing that

Pure awareness and space are actually
One and the same, both equally distinct from
Every thing, thought and body within them,
From everything you are aware of.
This is the secret of meditation

Guarded in the tantras, the secret called
Bhairava Mudra uniting inner and outer awareness
By meditating with the eyes open.
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This is the secret of meditation
Guarded in the tantras, the secret called
Khechari Mudra identifying with the space,
Within and around all things, and
Within and around you.
The aim of meditation is to know

That Self which not only lets itself be aware of
Things and thoughts - but IS that very awareness,
Spacious and pure.
Meditation can teach us to feel and

Be that Body which can breathe this pure awareness,
Breathe it like air and light into the inner spaces of the body
From the spaces around and surrounding it.
Meditation can teach us to feel and

Be that Self which is awareness, pure and simple.
This is not an awareness bounded by our bodies or brains.
But an awareness whose body is the entire universe.
And every single body within it.
Meditation can teach us to

Experience the reality of this divine
Awareness Self and its Awareness Body,
The Divine Self and Body of
Lord Shiva.
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WHAT IS GOD?
God is not aware.

God is not even a being with awareness.
God is that awareness, infinite and unbounded.
That is the source of all beings.
And of All That Is.
You yourself are not aware.

You are a unique portion of the awareness that God IS.
Awareness is not the property of any thing we are aware of,
There is nothing that is not a portion of the awareness that is God.
Awareness is not the property of any self or I.
Awareness is your very self, divine.
Do not then, identify with any
Thing you are aware of.
But be your true self.
Be awareness.
Be God.
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WHAT IS GOD TO YOU?
The ultimate answer to the question
Who are you? is, quite simply - You are God.
For just as God gave birth to human beings in His dreaming awareness,
So are human beings destined to give rebirth to Him in theirs.
God dreams Himself anew through all the gods, old and new
That are ever dreamt up within the human soul.
The gods are the dreamings of human beings
Through which God Himself is
Destined to recreate Himself
Through each and all of us,
Within each and all of us,
As each and all of us.
Your destiny therefore, is not to
Become One with God but to become God.
For that is what every being most essentially is,
Being composed of the stuff of which dreams are made,
That God-stuff of awareness that is
The divine light of Lord Shiva
In its infinite shapes, tones and colours.
Yet for us to be able to recreate God through
Our human experiences of the divine awareness,
Through the divine dreamings of our human souls,
He Himself had once to become flesh.
That is the deepest meaning of
The Christian Son of God.
The one who declared
I am Shiva,
Je-Shiva.
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WHAT IS THE GENDER OF GOD?
God is neither
Male nor Female.
God is a Relation.
The elements of that relation.
However we might name them:
Masculine and Feminine,
God and Goddess
Shiva and Shakti
Do not precede the Relation.
It is the Relation that first gives them their Reality.
There has never, can never be
A God without a Goddess as consort,
A Goddess without a God as consort.
There have never been Gods or Goddesses
Except in and as their Relation to one another.
Shiva-Shakti is not a relation of two
Separate, pre-existing beings.
Brought together by a mere hyphen.
For whilst distinct,
They are inseparable.
The hyphen in Shiva-Shakti
Is their dynamic relation,
It is what they are.
As God.
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WHAT ARE THE POWERS OF AWARENESS?
Awareness feels.
Awareness fills space.
Awareness flows in currents.
Awareness forms itself into bodies.
Awareness conveys itself without words.
Awareness vibrates with its own potentialities.
Awareness creatively releases those potentialities.
Awareness experiences itself as space, light and matter.
Awareness manifests its potentials as all experienced reality.
Awareness reveals its innate qualities in the forms of all things.
Awareness individualises itself in the experience of all beings.
Awareness finds its reflection in the experience of all beings.
Awareness frees us from identification with our experience.
Awareness divines itself as the divine self of every being.
Awareness divinises the self-experience of every being.
Awareness uncovers higher worlds and higher beings.
Awareness dissolves all experiences back into itself.
Awareness is what gives time to be aware.
Awareness enfills and enfolds all things.
Awareness transcends all things.
These are the power Shaktis
Of Awareness Shiva.
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WHAT IS ELEMENTAL MATTER?
Immaterial spirit pure awareness - is

Precisely that which matters which materialises itself.
The soul of matter is the matter of soul,

That primal substantiality of pure awareness - Purusha
That was called Prakriti.
The matter of soul

Is made up of the various
Soul elements soul space, soul light,
Soul air or aether, and soul vibration or tone.
All are imbued with fluid soul motion,
With soul water and warmth.
The soul of space is spaciousness of soul.

The spaciousness of awareness Kha
The soul of shape is the shape of soul,

Shapes of awareness Rupa.
The soul of light is the light of soul,

The light of awareness Prakasha.
The soul of air is the air of soul,

The air of awareness Akasha.
The soul of motion is the motion of soul.

The subtle motion of awareness Spanda.
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The soul of sound is the sounding of the soul
The primordial toning of awareness Om.
Matter is the shaped space of awareness.

Matter is the materialised light of awareness.
Matter is the condensed air of awareness.
The solidified vibration of awareness.
We can sense soul as space, light, air and sound.

We can absorb soul as space, light, aetheric air and sound.
The space, light, air and vibration of awareness.
Fire is the elemental

Dematerialisation of matter
Made tangible as light, sensed as heat.
Scented as air or smoke.
Leaving only holy ash.
Through sensing
The inner soul of fire, we
Can feel that fire of soul by which we can
Transform its elements, and matter itself
Into the eternal flame of spirit.
Transubstantiation.
Spirit is flame,
The soul of fire and fire of soul.
The flame of awareness.
Burning eternal.
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WHAT IS PRANA?
When we feel awareness pervading our bodies

like the air we breathe
that is prana.
When we feel our awareness sinking within us
like an inner exhalation
that is prana.
When we feel our awareness rising like a fiery flame
- that is prana.
When we feel it condensing like dew, moistening like mist or tears
that is prana.
When we feel it chilling like a cold or wet wind
that is prana.
When we feel it as a warmth of soul in the womb of our abdomen
that is prana.
When we feel it drifting like a cloud or ghost
that is prana.
When we feel it as a cloudy, grey sky
that is prana.
When we feel its radiance like a sun
that is prana.
When we feel it as something filling the vast expanse of space
that is prana.
When we feel it as the fine substantiality of our flesh
that is prana.
When we feel the atmosphere of a place
that is prana.
When we feel the aura emanating from an object or person
that is prana.
When we feel the air between people thicken or thin, warm or cool
that is prana.
When we let our soul flow into and fill the hollow awareness space of
another persons body that is prana.
When we feel the inner space of our body filled by the soul of another
that is prana.
When we scent the very soul of another through their exhalation
that is prana.
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When our awareness flows with wind or river,
- that is prana.
When we experience the soul of the elements, of fire, air, water and
earth, as the fire, air, water or earth of our own soul
- that is prana.
WHAT ARE TIME AND SPACE?
There can be nothing outside awareness,

As there can be nothing outside space.
And nothing before or after time.
Time is the coming to be, and

Endurance of all things, within the
Infinite insideness of awareness.
Our experience of time is that

Of a horizon limiting our awareness
Of things and events in space.
Yet just as time is the ultimate horizon

Of a singular time-space of awareness,
So is space its infinite inwardness.
Time is space, the time-space in which

All things, past, present and future, simultaneously
Presence, in which they come to be and endure.
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Time is the presencing of things in awareness.
Space is co-presence of things in awareness.
Time-space their co-presencing in awareness.
Time is space, that unbounded time-space

Of awareness in which all things come to presence
And endure, eternally and at all times.
The moment is the more or less expansive

Time-space of awareness that we experience
As our here and as our now.
The less time we give ourselves to be aware

The more the spaciousness of the moment is contracted
Ending up as a mere point in time.
If we flit from one thought, experience, action or task

To another, to any one focus of awareness to another, we
Lose all sense of time as a spacious field of awareness.
Instead we break time up into an endless

Linear series of nows and thens, heres and theres
Yet never feeling enough time or space for anything.
The more time we give ourselves to be aware

The more the spaciousness of the moment is
Expanded, embracing both past and future.
Space and time are nothing objective.

They are basic dimensions of subjectivity,
Of that awareness which has no outside.
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Space and time are nothing separate.
They are a singular time-space of awareness,
Embracing past, present and future.
Beyond the ultimate circumference of that time-space

Lies nothing that actually is - but everything that still could be,
The potential that vibrates in all pasts, presents and futures.
WHAT IS AWARENESS?
Awareness is bliss.
Awareness is the self.
Awareness is freedom.
Awareness is the divine.
Awareness is all that there is.
Awareness is the sole absolute.
Awareness is light, space and time.
Awareness is the substance of matter.
Awareness is the inwardness of energy.
Awareness surrounds and permeates all things.
Awareness cannot be explained by any thing at all.
Awareness is the condition for our experience of any thing.
Awareness is ultimate reality, the source and essence of all realities.
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WHAT IS GURU?
All that breathes without breath,

All that sees without eyes, moves without limbs,
Hears without ears, touches without hands - is Guru.
All that is shared with Guru is purified and transformed by Guru
All awareness that is wholly turned to Guru comes back enriched by Guru.
All services rendered to Guru are services rendered to ones Self and the World.
Yet all that is accomplished through Guru do not enable one to truly see Guru.
All that is received from Guru with awareness enables one gradually to see Guru.
All efforts to open oneself to the grace of Guru invite initiation from Guru.
All efforts to truly see and feel Guru bring effects without effort.
All that sees and is seen through the eyes of Guru is Guru.
All that is spoken through the words of Guru is Guru.
All that is enfilled and enfolded by Guru is Guru.
All that is Guru is Maheshvara.
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WHAT IS THE DIVINE AWARENESS?
The Divine Awareness is that unbounded awareness

Dwelling in all that we can possibly be aware of.
In the awareness of every person, and all that they are aware of
There dwells the Divine Awareness.
In the awareness of any human emotion, positive or negative

In the awareness of any ache or pain

In the awareness of any fear or affliction,

In the awareness of every struggle or conflict

In your awareness of every terror or torment,

The Divine Awareness is that which sets all things free to just Be,
In the absolute abandon of its unbounded creativity.
That is why, in every power, benign or malign
In every person, enlightened or deluded

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Even in every limitation, contraction or diminution of the Divine
Awareness There dwells the Divine Awareness.
Even in every failure to recognise the Divine Awareness in all things,

Even in all that poisons us and poisons our world,

There too, dwells the Divine Awareness.
Recognising this - being aware of this - is the sole antidote.

The antidote of Divine Awareness.
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WHAT ARE THE GODS?
When you hear such names as

Brahman, Kali, Shakti, Vishnu and Shiva
Do you just hear names - archaic god-names of an
Ancient Hindu pantheon?
Guru will teach you to hear, see, sense and feel differently.
If you look at a paving stone, is all that you see a paving stone?
Guru will teach you to see, hear, sense and feel differently.
To see just a paving stone when you look at a paving stone is like
Just seeing a painting or seeing a Turner when you look at a painting.
In that way you do not see the painting at all.
So what of the paving stone?

Brahman is the creative seed-idea of the paving stones
Unique matrix, pattern or Yantra.
Kali is the infinite womb of

Potentiality in which this seed-pattern was planted as
A matrix of sounds, of Mantra, and
In which it forever lies latent.
Shakti is the continuous manifestation and

Materialisation of this matrix as this, and just this paving stone.
She is that which is constantly creating it now, before your very eyes,
endowing it with the innate substantiality of her awareness.
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Vishnu is that which preserves and sustains
The material matrix of the actual paving stone, in resonance with the
creative womb and seed-pattern of potentiality from which it emerged.
Shiva is the light of awareness

In which alone this paving stone becomes visible and sensible to us,
Revealing itself for what it truly is.
The several Gods are neither many nor one, for whilst they are distinct
They are also inseparable, a singular multiplicity and a multiple
singularity.
But where are these Gods? Wherein lies their true abode?
It lies here, in this very paving stone.
It lies here, in every this.
Indeed not just here,

But there and every-where.
Not just in mountain and river, but in every man and woman,
In every you and I, him and her.
Not just in rock and paving stone, but

In computer, car, cat, kettle and microwave.
For all these are divine patterns materialised,
Yantra of the gods, composed of nothing but
The God-stuff of awareness itself.
But if all that you see when you look is just

A paving stone or rock, a river or mountain, a car, cat or
microwave, you will not see and sense things for what they truly are,
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Nor find the Gods within them.
Guru is (s)he alone who teaches people to
See and sense things for what they are and to
BE what they are in all Their divinity.
Guru is (s)he alone who knows that

Every sensation, sight and sound we are aware of is a Shakti of Shiva,
A shaped, coloured and toned quality of the Divine Awareness.
Yet if and when you meet Guru, will you merely see a guru, or
Will you see, sense and thrill at what makes this man or woman Guru,
The thrill of divine seeing and sensing?
Will you just see some human being claiming to be

Gods gift to mankind, a Godman or Godwoman?
Or will you open yourself to the true gift of Guru Mantra?
Will you be ready to say to yourself, as (s)he does:
I AM God and all the Gods.
Will you come to recognise that your every limb and organ,
Thought and feeling, fear and doubt, hope and despair, pain and
Pleasure is, like the paving stone, all the Gods made manifest in you.
That you yourself are made of God-stuff?
And that every single thing,

From mountain to microwave, is a Shakti of Ma Kali,
Seeded by Brahman, preserved by Vishnu, and brought to light
By the universal light of awareness that is Shiva?
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Will you be able to bow down before
These manifold Gods of the Paving Stone saying
Obeisance to Brahman, who is the creative seed of all that is.
Obeisance to Mother Kali, who is the boundless womb of all that is.
Obeisance to her Shaktis, who ARE every thing within and around us.
Obeisance to Lord Vishnu, who IS that which preserves them all for us.
Obeisance to Lord Shiva, who IS the light of universal awareness
In which alone all things can come to light for us to delight in.
To you all, I bow down and prostrate myself
Knowing you as my very Body
My very Self?
Will you learn through Guru

To feel and to say to yourself,
I too, am a living fleshly image and
Incarnation of the Gods.
I too, AM Guru?
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WHAT IS OUR PRAYER?
Oh Great Mother,
MAHADEVI, DRGDEVI, MA KALI
Black Goddess of death and time.
In this, your time, your KALI YUGA,
Mankind does still conjugate
Through blood and hate.
The centuries are
Written in it.
Oh Great Black Mother,

So great are the deprivations of the many.
So great is the passionless greed of the few
That there are those who would
Wipe your fearless face
From this earth.
Who would
Remove all dis-ease from the body,
Remove all pain and anguish from the soul,
Remove all bliss and sensual pleasure from the spirit,
Remove all depths of wordless knowledge from the word,
And create a world of sterile health and worthless wealth.
Let them then calculate, accumulate and be cursed.
For in this, your time, your Kali Yuga.
They no longer know your face.
They have not the eyes
To see and love you.
Oh Great Mother,
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As the humble Lord Shiva himself,
I prostrate myself beneath your feet.
Feigning a white and lifeless corpse, but
Knowing the illusion of death.
And feeling the bliss of
The greater life
Within you.
Oh Mother,
We hear your call
And heed your command
To reveal your true face to the world!
Grant us then all of your devious cunning
So that we, your devoted servants,
Can once again wield your
Serpent power.
Oh Mother,
Give us the will to
Fill the hearts and souls of
Women and men with countless delights.
And, with single strokes of your mighty axe
To cleave the heads off all those false gods
Who would rule the world with calculation,
Ignorant of your fearless compassion.
Your deep dark powers, your many
Secrets untold, and your lover
The Lord Shiva.
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WHAT IS PUJA?
I have performed Puja [worship] for the Great Lord Shiva.
Before him and for him, with and within him, in him and as him.
I have lit the primordial flame of The Great Lord, that burns forever.
I have seated myself before the murti of The Great Lord.
I have meditated the majesty of his supreme mudra.
I have received the grace and wisdom of his gaze.
I have seen his third eye as a singular star.
I have heard his inward speech as mine.
I have known him knowing me.
I have seen him seeing me.
I have heard him hearing me.
I have felt the softness of his touch.
I have understood him teaching me.
I have breathed the sweetness of his breath.
I have relished the sublime nectar of his divine bliss.
I have been soothed like a baby by his infinite patience.
I have felt the boundless span of his awareness across time.
I have become the boundless expanse of his awareness in space.
I have let my awareness rise as his incense to the heights of his sky.
I have felt his lingam within me as the core and essence of all things.
I have seen and heard all things as expressions of his divine activity.
I have let go of all sense of agency separate from that of the Great Lord.
I have surrendered without condition to His supreme wisdom and grace.
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I have performed Puja for the Lord, for and before, with and within Him.
I have thus enacted the supreme mantra of the Great Lord,
I have become the mantra that he and I are two as one.
Shiva. Aham, Shiv-o-ham.
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WHAT IS THE SHIVA LINGAM?
Any thing in space,

Can be thought, seen and
Directly sensed as a miracle.
A miracle of creation, constantly
Manifesting and materialising out of the
Seeming vacuity of that pure thought-free,
Sense-free, and thing-free awareness
That is space, and that is
SHIVA.
A simple stone
Is a miraculous thing.
Seemingly insentient, it is in truth
A dense and compact materialisation of
Pure awareness that is Shiva, both manifesting and
Reflecting the pure light of awareness
That pervades all of space.
Such a simple stone,

Can be thought, seen and sensed
As a miracle, not only of its own manifestation
From the awareness that is SHIVA, but that of all things.
As such it is also a sign or symbol - LINGAM - of this miracle of
Universal manifestation and
Materialisation.
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A simple, single stone, selected
For its solid density and simplicity of form and colour,
Whether colourless black, absorbing all light, or bearing a
Shining surface that reflects the light and all things around it,
Can, by virtue of its simplicity of form become a symbol of the formless,
Pure awareness that is Shiva taking form in the most compact way.
Then the stone ceases to be just one single thing among others
In universal space, but can be thought, seen and sensed AS
The entire universe, and AS a compact mass of that
Singular, universal awareness that is Shiva.
Such a simple, single stone,

Thought, seen and directly sensed in this way,
Becomes a STEPPING STONE to experiencing its truth as a symbol or
LINGAM - the truth that all things are in each, and all things are SHIVA.
Thus can a stone become the most singular of all symbols of Shiva,
The revered SHIVA LINGAM.
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WHAT IS LIBERATION?
We are each aware of a sense of self

Or aware of multiple, diverse selves.
A sense more or less fixed or fluid,
More or less singular or plural.
This sense of self is formed of

Many elements, from thoughts and
Feelings to familiar moods and modes of
Inner and outer experiencing.
Yet all the elements of experience that make up or

Inform 'our' sense of self, are constantly IN formation,
Constantly manifesting from a source quite other than
Any self we can possibly experience as 'ours'.
'Liberation' means being aware of all the elements of our

Experienced self as a self-manifestation and self-experience of
Awareness as such - an awareness that is not 'mine' or 'yours'
Yet which experiences itself as 'me' and 'you', 'him' and 'her'.
This Awareness is truly Divine, for though not being

Yours or mine, it is the source of all that 'I', you or anyone
Can experience as 'their' self and 'their' experience, for it is
That Awareness which experiences itself as every 'I' and 'you'.
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Yet whenever we 'own' a thought, feeling or
Any aspect of our experience as 'mine' or as 'me'
We no longer experience the Divine, forgetting that
'Our' very experience of self is ITS experience, not 'ours'.
Since the Divine Awareness is the very source

From which all the elements of experience arise
That first make up our sense of self, how can any self
Be said to have or possess its 'own' experience?
That self - the ego - that takes the experiences

It 'has' as its 'own', or thinks of itself as 'having' or
'Possessing' a self that is its 'own', is deluded, and
Lives in constant fear of losing its 'self-possession'.
Liberation is a sacrifice and surrender of this self to the Divine

Not a surrender of self but of self-possession, disowning and restoring
Ownership of our sense of self to God - that Divine Awareness to which
Alone all experiencing and all experiences of self belong.
Dis-owning our self-experience we are re-enowned by God.

We do not 'lose' ourselves to God, but refind ourselves as part of God.
Recognising all we experience as belonging to God's self-experience,
We realise that 'union' with the Divine that is the meaning of 'yoga'.
For awareness of self does not belong to any self we are aware of.
Nor is it bound to any self we are aware of, except that
Divine Self which does not possess but IS awareness,
Unbound and unbounded, liberated and free.
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For the deluded self that believes it 'possesses' the experiences
That first endow it with a sense of self, the ultimate sacrifice to God,
The leap to liberation, is fraught with terror, for the ego identifies
Surrender of self-possession with loss of self and ultimate non-being.
That is why the Divine also has the Tantric face and name of
BHAIRAV - 'The Terrifying One' - and why being 'God-fearing' can
Mean just that, fearing to face the delusory terror of non-being that
The leap into Moksha - liberation - demands of all who take it.
Many Muslims confuse the Great Sacrifice with struggle and

passionate Martyrdom for a holy cause, thus confusing surrender
of the body with Surrender of self to God - and forgetting that
Awareness alone, not War, can bring an end to all war and
tyranny, the tyranny of the warring ego.
Christianity guards the sacred mantra

That says 'I and the Father are one'.
Yet which Christian can say what this 'One'
IS which unites the Self with the Divine?
For knowing it as Awareness they

Would speak of it neither as
'I' nor as any paternal
Self or Deity.
And what of those Buddhists who

Do not believe in any such a thing as 'Self',
Who believe in no God to sacrifice a delusory sense of 'self' to,
Who may even believe that Non-Being itself is 'Nirvana'?
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They can go their way - but behind their spiritual repose
You may find a great terror in the face of BHAIRAV,
That face of the Divine beloved of Tantrikas?
To whom surrender brings total autonomy.
The Mantra of Liberation says: 'Not Mine but the Divine',

Thus however you are aware of feeling and whatever you are aware of
Thinking, think and feel these thoughts and feelings not as yours, but as
Those of a Divine Awareness, boundless and divine.
Saying 'Not Mine but the Divine',

Dis-owning the 'self' you think you 'own', you will refind it
AS that Divine Awareness which is thinking and feeling itself
In and as you, that is being and bodying you as Itself.
Whatever divine name you call it by,

Surrendering to its spacious embrace is bliss,
Sacrifice to it brings bountiful blessings,
And its boon is everlasting Liberation.
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WHAT IS THE SUPREME SELF?
The contracted self, the Jiva-atman,

Is like an actress so lost in the part she is playing,
So identified with the self she has dressed up to act,
That just when she looks in the mirror that is all she sees.
So also when she looks in the mirror of her senses,
Thoughts and feelings all she sees is the
Self she is acting, the acted self.
The Supreme Self, the Para-atman,

Is not the acted self, but the acting self.
For the actress to see this self in the mirror, she
Would need be so familiar with every part it can play,
That even if she were costumed to act a part,
When she looked in the very same mirrors
All she would see is a reflection of
The self that is acting her,
The Para-atman.
Shiva is the Para-atman,

The Supreme Self of the actress.
This Self that has no identity, for it is nothing but
The pure capacity for identification itself,
Not with one part or being alone, but all.
That capacity for identification
Is what we call love.
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Shakti is the Para-atman,
The Supreme Self of the actress,
Being not just one self that can be acted but all.
Being not just one part that can be played but all,
That Self, which is therefore truly whole
And no mere part at all.
Shiva and Shakti

Are distinct, yet inseparably one.
For how could there be acting without parts to act?
And what would a part or acted self be
Without a Self to act it, to so
Lovingly identify with it?
Look into the mirror then, and look

Also into the mirror of your mind, senses and heart.
What do you think, sense and feel there?
You may say you see yourself,
Yet I would ask Which self?
Do you see
The acted self or the acting self,
The experienced self or the experiencing self?
Do you see the Jiva-atman or the Para-atman?
And can you also see the Other in the One,
See the acting self that is Shiva,
In your acted self or Jiva?
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Look again
In both mirrors, outer and inner,
And ask which self it is you identify with most.
You may simply say yourself, as if you had but one.
Yet I ask you again, which self is it that you mean?
That Self that can identify with all selves
Or, like an actress with only one part,
Is identified with one self alone,
The one you call yours?
That self is the Jiva-atman.

As for the Para-atman itself,
It has no one self to call its own.
Instead it is verily each and every self.
For it is the loving activity of identification that
Unites the acting and the acted self.
The player and all possible parts,
It is the very love uniting them,
It is Shiva-Shakti.
It is Shiva who plays every part,

From Mother Theresa to Saddam Hussein,
Shiva who takes on the parts of all human beings.
If only they could recognise this themselves, and
Not reduce themselves to those parts
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It is Shiva
Who acts the role of both,
Guru and Disciple, Saviour and Saved,
Healer and Healed, Teacher and Taught.
Creator, Maintainer and Destroyer, for
All this is Shivas divine play,
Shiva's Lila.
Shiva identifies with all the Gods

That ever were, from Brahma and Vishnu
To Kali and Lakshmi, Wotan, Yahweh and Allah.
It is Shiva who acts the parts of Pope and Patriarch,
Of Rabbi, Brahmin, Imam, Shaman and Matriarch.
If only they could recognise this themselves, and
Not identify themselves with those parts
Blessed then be Shiva-Shakti,

For if All is part of Shivas Divine Play, then
Shakti is All parts, All roles, and all Gods He plays.
Shakti is verily All That Is, Was and ever Can be acted and actualised.
Indeed She is Shivas very Power of action and of actualisation itself.
Yet knowing how Shiva sole action is identification with All She Is,
She knows Herself too, as His sole Beloved.
This is her Joy, Her participation and
Delight in Their Divine Lila.
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WHAT IS SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION?
Spiritual Revolution
Is the simple revelation that
The world does not revolve around you.
The world no more revolves around you, than the Sun

Revolves around the Earth, or galaxies around our Sun.
Revolution is the understanding

That it is the other way round, that
All realities revolve around God.
Not only does the world not

Revolve around you, but your whole world
Is itself but one of the countless realities
Revolving around God.
Experiencing this truth is a truly

Revolutionary revelation for all those
Who think the world revolves
Around them.
It is a Copernican Revolution of the Soul,

Knowing itself as earth, sun, stars, galaxies and entire
Universes all not only revolving around God but also
Surrounded and suffused by God - an infinite Circumference
Of countless worlds within, looking inwards to its own
Singular, divine and infinitely distant Centre.
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WHAT IS SHIVA?
SHIVA
IS THE VERY SELF OR I-NESS
OF THAT TRANSCENDENTAL AWARENESS
THAT IS IMMANENT WITHIN US ALL
MIRRORED AND MADE MANIFEST
AS ALL THINGS AND BEINGS
PRESENT WITH THEM ALL
AS THEIR ULTIMATE
SELF OR I
THE STARS ARE

THE SHAKTIS OF SHIVA.
THE MOON IS HIS REFLECTED LIGHT.
THE NIGHT SKY IS HIS PROTECTIVE EMBRACE.
A WOMB IN WHICH ALL THINGS ARE MADE SAFE.
EVERY THING ON THIS EARTH IS HIS LINGAM,
AND THE HEART IS HIS BLISS,
BREATHING HIS DELIGHT.
FOR ALL TO TASTE
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WHAT AM I?
I am not what I am.

I am an ordinary man.
I have known love, fear, bliss and pain.
I have also journeyed through inner planes.
I have flown over Oxford quads and Austrian valleys.
I have entered the great mountain hall of the fire spirits.
I have beheld the lion-headed men of Sekmet in their lair.
I have heard the very cells of my body breathe a symphony.
I have received initiation from the master and dreamt his music.
I have mastered the power of soul sounds, the magic of mantra.
I have rediscovered the soul body, the hidden secret of tantra.
I have seen the entire night sky erupt in vivid vortices of colour.
I have learnt to ride the musical tones and chords of feeling.
I have let hundreds of selves show their face on mine.
I have let hundreds of Is look out through my eyes.
I have used my eyes to transmit wordless knowledge to others.
I have drawn others down into the fathomless depths of their own soul.
I have drawn them out into the vast unbounded expanse of awareness.
I have submerged myself in the musical womb of my own oversoul.
I have looked out with the eyes of beings, both human and trans-human.
I have perceived the countless faces of the self in the countenance of others.
I have learned to listen with the inner ear and speak with the inner voice.
I have let my awareness descend to the very core of the earth.
I have extended it to embrace the vastness of the cosmos.
I have felt the awesome power of the Black Sun at its centre.
I have seen the earth from high above and travelled to planets unknown.
I have learned to enter the invisible and unbounded inwardness of all matter.
I have learnt to perceive the idea-shape materialised in every thing around me.
I have expanded the spaces within and between my very atoms and cells.
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I have learnt to feel the soul qualities manifest in all sensory things.
I have experienced the sublime sensuality of the souls inner senses.
I have entered the soul-inwardness of countless colours and material forms.
I have put my awareness into trees and blades of grass, air and wind.
Into clouds and sea, fire and light, wood and metal, mortals and gods.
I have turned my awareness into space and air, warmth and light, fire and ice.
I have shape-shifted into countless forms and revealed their countenances.
I have filled the bodies of others with my soul, filled my body with theirs.
I have melded and merged my soul-body with those of others.
I have become a body of air and colour, space and light.
I have tasted the nectar of divine bliss.
I have known the ecstasy of divine intercourse.
I have melted in union with the Mahadevi herself.
I have entered the dark womb of her, the Great Goddess.
I have felt the unimaginable vitality of her radiant Shaktis.
I have experienced the infinite light of the Supreme Lord, Shiva.
I have become the lingam of the Mahadeva and the yoni of the Mahedevi.
I have bodied the occult power of the Black Serpent and of the Black Sun.
I have become the Lord Shiva in the terrifying countenance of Bhairava.
I have placed divine powers of the gods into the mortal bodies of others.
I have received teachings from unknown Rabbis, Shaivas and Shamans.
I have become the most darkly powerful of shamans, the Ungum-Buthu.
I have stalked the hidden animal spirits in the bodies of human beings.
I have beheld the working of angels and the massiveness of archangels.
I have learnt a new way of being from every human being I have met.
I have embodied the most ancient of gods, inhabiting statues of stone.
I have learnt the meaning of suffering and dis-ease in its many forms.
I have become the most primordial of life forms on this planet.
I have explored the innermost secrets of time and history.
I have perceived the deep inner meaning of world events.
I have bodied countless different selves in a single life.
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I have recalled the life between lives in this very life.
I have beheld the mighty airships of higher beings.
I have touched others with invisible hands.
I have founded a true science of the soul.
My teachings have no precedent.
I approach all things anew.
I am reborn each day.
Who me?
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MEDITATION, MOVEMENT AND JUST SITTING

Meditation, as understood through The Awareness Principle, means simply giving time-space
to a type of wholly non-active or quiescent awareness - one not reliant on bodily movement or
action. Most Westerners however, can only feel a sense of meditative inner stillness through
movement in space.
Sitting still, they can no longer feel their body as a whole, let alone sense the space of
awareness, around it but instead begin to get lost in thought and their heads. Put in other terms,
they cannot sustain a proprioceptive awareness of their own body without sensations of physical
movement - without kinaesthetic awareness.
That is why they need to be constantly on the move - whether through any type of
physical activity involving movement of the body, or by literally moving from place to place - for
example by travelling or engaging in pursuits such as walking, jogging, swimming etc.
That is also why a notable guru of the nineteen sixties and seventies felt forced to come up
with the idea of so-called dynamic meditation effectively no form of meditation at all but a
mere means of emotional catharsis through spontaneous movement.
Kinaesthetic awareness dependent on movement does indeed awaken proprioceptive
awareness. Yet in Western culture it is, for most people, the only way they know of awakening or
sustaining proprioceptive awareness of their bodies.
In Eastern and aboriginal cultures the reverse has been traditionally the case movement
and kinaesthetic awareness are grounded in motionless stillness and proprioceptive awareness of ones
body.
As in the practice of Tai Chi and of different forms of Asian dance and martial art, Eastern
cultures value forms of bodily movement which arise out of a sense of motionless stillness - and
believe in letting this very motionless stillness guide and time their physical movement or
kinesis. Thus the most truly advanced martial artist is precisely one who does not actively move
their body at all, but rather lets it be moved moved by a proprioceptive awareness that embraces
not only their body but their sense of the entire space around their body.
It is because the kinaesthetic awareness of the martial artist is already so highly trained that
all they require to guide their physical movements is a meditative, motionless proprioceptive
awareness.
Sitting meditation on the other hand, teaches people how to move in a different way to
move from one location or place to another in themselves - not with their physical body but within
their inwardly felt body.
Strictly speaking this is not movement at all but awareness awareness of the many different
sensations and feelings and thoughts that are presencing or occurring in different regions or
locations of their body. It is awareness too, of the relation of these sensations or feelings,
whether subtle or intense, to the thoughts they are having and to the things or people they are
connected with in their world.
The principle aim of sitting meditation is to learn how to be physically still whilst still
sustaining awareness of our body as a whole and the space around it - sustaining both
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proprioceptive and spatial awareness.

This proprioceptive awareness is what sitting meditation and the Zen practice of just
sitting was implicitly designed to cultivate. Yet the problems faced by students of Zen-style
sitting meditation physical restlessness, mental boredom or drifting off, were not understood
and responded to with this understanding or aim in mind the aim of cultivating awareness of
our bodies and the space around them.
Instead they were left to struggle with sensations of restlessness, strain, boredom or fatigue
leading them to mentally dissociate from their bodies rather than become more aware of them, to
get lost in thought or even fall asleep during meditation hence the Masters awakening stick.
There was no instruction to students to fully affirm all bodily sensations in awareness thus
coming to recognise that the very awareness of a bodily sensation is not itself anything bodily but is
essentially bodiless and sensation-free.
Similarly the awareness of a distracting thought or mental state is not itself anything mental or
any activity of mind - mindfulness - but is instead something essentially thought- and mind-free.
Lacking this understanding and experience of pure awareness, Zen students were left to
rely on their minds to distract or dissociate themselves from their bodies - or to simply stay
awake. This however only compounded the challenge of attaining a state of pure, mind- and
thought-free awareness.
What they required was The Awareness Principle the recognition that just as the
awareness of our bodies and of bodily sensations is not itself anything bodily, so is the pure
awareness of our minds and thoughts not itself anything mental but a thought and mind-free
awareness.
The Zen practice of sitting meditation aimed at transcending both mind and body and
attaining a state called emptiness or mu - No mind. No body. Yet this practice did not
recognise that the pure awareness of mind and body is in principle - something innately
transcendent or free of body and mind.
Without this recognition, success in meditation came to be identified more and more with
one-pointedness the concentration of awareness on a single inner or outer focal point (for
example the centre of a mandala.). It is precisely this practice of one-pointedness however, that
misses the point - which is that a state of pure mind- and body-free awareness is, in contrast to
ordinary consciousness, precisely an awareness not focussed or concentrated on a single, localised
point. Instead it is an all-round field awareness embracing the entirety of space not least the
space around our bodies, around our physical sensations and around our thoughts themselves.
It is from the formless all-round space of pure awareness that all formed elements of our bodily
and mental experiencing, inner and outer, arise. To concentrate single-pointedly on any one of
these is to miss the central aim of meditation, which is to cultivate a proprioceptive awareness of
our bodies and even our thoughts themselves - from the space surrounding them.
The term sacred space is both true and misleading. For a sacred space or a holy place such
as a temple or cathedral, is in essence any place which helps us either through its vast inner or
outer dimensions and/or through its association with God or the divine to experience space as
such as sacred and holy - as the divine and as the God inside which we dwell.
What happens when people enter a sacred space such as a large cathedral for example is -
first of all - that they gain a sense of its vaulting spaciousness, and at the same time, by virtue of
knowing the cathedral as a holy place or house of God - associate this spaciousness with that
holiness and with God.
When people come together in temples, churches or mosques they are first of all aware of
being together in a common space which is recognised as sacred or holy in some way. In that
way, they knowingly or unknowingly come to an experience of space itself as divine that which
embraces all things and beings. Going to a holy place involves movement in space. Yet being there
means motionlessly abiding in that place, thus coming to experiencing its space and thereby
space itself as holy.
Again, movement or kinesis activity or change of place can be a way of awakening or
sustaining proprioceptive awareness, or it can be a way of avoiding it. Yet the question whether,
at any given moment, awareness is better sustained through movement or non-movement, can
itself only be decided by first of all not-moving by abiding in a motionless stillness.
Mountains and trees do not move from place to place, go to church, go for walks or go on
pilgrimages. Mountains will not come to Mohammed. Trees do not have eyes to see. Yet they are
the true Zen masters and yogis of nature. For not having eyes to perceive space or limbs by which
to move from place to place, they are masters at motionlessly sensing the space, light and air
around them. Indeed their proprioceptive sense of their own bodies comes from sensing their
spatiality.
The trees trunk rises towards the heights of the sky. Its roots plumb the depths of the
earth. Its branches spread and its leaves and flowers open themselves to the vaulting curvature of
the heavens above absorbing the light and air of space not through any eyes or noses, but
through their entire surface.
To be conscious is to be aware of things occurring abiding or moving - in the space
around them. To be aware of things however, is not the same as to be that very awareness. To be
awareness means to be the space, inner and outer, in which things occur, and not just be aware of
things occurring in that space. For pure awareness, in our space-time reality, is space. Being space,
we do not need to engage in activity or movement to experience time. For space is time-space. The
vaulting expanse of space is the spacious expanse of time itself a time-space that embraces all
actions and places - past, present and future - without any need for movement from one place to
another in space or one moment to another in time.

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PRACTICING SITTING AS MEDITATION

Sitting meditation is essentially the experience of sitting anywhere and anytime - as meditation.
This involves 4 simple steps:

1. Sitting with your eyes open, but not looking at anything.
2. Sustaining awareness of your sensed body surface as a whole.
3. Feeling your body surface as all eye enabling you to sense the entire space within
and all around your body.
4. Letting all that you are aware of within your body in the form of sensations or feelings
and all that comes to mind in the form of thoughts and images dissipate into the space
around your body.

BODILY AND SPATIAL AWARENESS

The most fundamental Practice of Awareness is the practice of sustaining continuous
whole-body awareness throughout the day. The foundation of this whole-body awareness is
awareness of ones felt body surface as a whole. For without awareness of our surface we can feel
neither the inner space of awareness it bounds and surrounds nor the awareness that is the outer space
surrounding it these being the two distinct but inseparable aspects of the awareness space that
make up our awareness body or soul body. Surface awareness is thus the key to experiencing
whole-body awareness as soul-body awareness. Sustaining this whole-body/soul-body
awareness through spatial body awareness can only be achieved through constant mindfulness
and regular recall of the following twelve questions all of which have to do and affect how
much space one feels one has - both for oneself and for others.

MEDITATING AWARENESS AS SPACE

1.How much of my body surface am I feeling right now?
2.How much inner awareness space can I feel within this felt surface boundary?
3.Where do I feel my awareness concentrated in this inner awareness space?
4.Where do I feel my awareness centred in this inner-bodily awareness space?
5. How far down does my inner awareness space extend from the inner space of my head
through that of my chest to my lower abdomen?
6. How expansive or contracted, crowded or empty, muddied or clear, do I feel the inner
awareness space of my head, chest and abdomen?
7. To what extent do I feel the inner awareness space of head, chest and abdomen as a
singular inner space of awareness?
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8.To what extent can I lower my centre of awareness from a point in my head to points in
the inner region of my heart, diaphragm, belly and lower abdomen?
9.To what extent can I sense the entire space around my body surface?
10.How far can I feel my awareness extending into this space?
11. To what extent can I feel the entire space around me as an unbounded space of awareness
enveloping and embracing both my own body and every other body in it?
12. How permeable or impermeable do I feel the surface boundary between my inner and
outer awareness spaces - to what extent can I feel my surface boundary as either a porous
in-breathing membrane or as a sealed self-containing boundary?

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MICROMEDITATIONSBEING
AWARE

Taketimeto:

Beawareofyoureyes
Beawareofyournose,mouthandjaw
Beawareofyourfaceasawhole

Beawareofyourfaceandeyes
Beawareofthetop,backandsidesofyourhead
Beawareofyourheadasawhole

Beawareofyourheadasawhole
Beawareofbreathingthroughyournose
Beawareoftheinnerspaceofyourhead

Beawareofthesurfaceofyourchest
Beawareofyourchestexpandingandcontractingasyou
breathe
Beawareoftheinnerspaceofyourchest.

Beawareofyourhead,chestandupperbodyasawhole
Beawareofyourfeet,legsandwholelowerbodybelowthe
waist
Beawareofyourabdomenandbreathewithit.

Beawareofthesurfaceofyourlowerabdomen
Beawareofyourabdomenexpandingandcontractinglikea
balloonasyoubreathe.
Beawareoftheinnerspaceofyourabdomen

Beawareofanypartofyourbody.
Beawareofanotherpartofyourbodyatthesametime
Beawareofyourbodyasawhole

Beawareofasinglesensoryqualityofanobjectsuchasits
shape,colourortexture
Beawareofanothersensoryqualityofthatsameobject
Beawareoftheobjectasawhole.

Beawareofanobjectyoucansee
Beawareofanotherobjectyoucanseewithoutshiftingyour
gaze
Beawareofthecommonspaceinwhichbothobjectsstand

Beawareofanobjectyousee
Beawareoftheeyesthroughwhichyouseetheobject
Beawareatthesametimeoftheobjectyouseeandtheeyes
throughwhichyouseeit

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Beawareofthespacearoundyourbody
Beawareofthesensedinnerspaceofyourbody
Beawareofbothouterandinnerspaces

Beawareanobjectyousee
Beawareoftheobjectandoftheeyesthroughwhichyouseeit
Beawareoftheobjectseen,theseeingofit,andtheeyes
throughwhichyouseeit

Beawareofthesurfaceofawall
Beawareofyourchestsurface
Beawareofbothatthesametime

Beawareofthesurfaceofawall
Beawareofthesurfaceofyourchest
Beawareofthespacebetweenthosesurfaces

Beawareofanobject
Beawareofthespacearoundthatobject

Beawareofanobject
Beawareofyourbody
Beawareofthespacebetweenyourbodyandtheobject

Beawareofthespacesurroundinganobject
Beawareofthespacesurroundingyourbody
Beawareofthespacearoundyourbodyandtheobjectasone
space

Beawareofsomethingyousenseinthespacearoundyourbody
suchasanobject
Beawareofsomethingyousenseintheinnerspaceofyour
bodysuchasafeeling
Beawareoftheouterandinnerspacesasonespace

Beawareofeverythingthereistobeawareofaroundyou,
withoutfocussingonanyonething.
Beawareofeverythingthereistobeawareofwithinyou,
withoutfocussingonanyonething.
Beawareofeverythoughtorfeelingyouhaveaboutthethings
youareawareof,withoutfocussingonthosethoughtsor
feelings.

Beawareofanythingmorethereistobeawareofoutsideyou
Beawareofanythingmorethereistobeawareinsideyou
Beawareofanyfurtherthoughtsyouhaveaboutthethingsyou
areawareof,withoutfocussingonthethingsyouarethinking
about

Beawareofthefeltboundarybetweenyourinsidenessand
outsideness,thesensedspaceswithinandaroundyou.
Beawareofhowopenorclosed,porousorimpermeablethat
boundaryfeels.
Beawareofwhetheryouroverallsenseofselfcomesmore
fromthespaceswithinoraroundyourbody.

Beawareofanythoughtyouhaveaboutsomethingyousense
withinoraroundyou.
Beawareofthethoughtasathought,withoutfocussingonthe
thingyouarethinkingabout.
Beawareofthethingandofthethoughtastwoquitedistinct
andseparatethings

MICROMEDITATIONSBEING
AWARENESS

Taketimeto:

Beawareofanyobjectorsensoryquality
Beawareofanypartofyourbody
Betheawarenessofboth

Beawareofanobjectasawhole
Beawareofyourbodyasawhole
Betheawarenessofyourbodyandtheobject

Beawareofanobjectyousee
Beawareoftheeyesthroughwhichyouseeit
Betheawarenessofseeingtheobjectthroughyoureyes

Beawareofthespacearoundanobject
Betheawarenessofthecommonspacearoundyourbodyand
theobject.

Beawareofthespacearoundbothyourbodyandanobject
Betheawarenessofthatspace
Betheawarenessthatisthatspace,sensingitasaspaceof
awareness.

Beawareofthespacearoundyou
Beawareofanythingyousenseinthatspace
awareness.

Beawareofthesensedinnerspaceofyourbodyofhead,
chestorabdomen
Beawareofanythingyousenseinthatspacewhetherthought,
feelingorimpulse
awareness.

Beawareofthesensedspacesaroundandinsideyourbody
Beawareofthosespacesaspartofonesingularspace
Betheawarenessthatisthatsingularspace

Beawareofanythingyousenseinthespacearoundyou
Beawareofanythingyousenseinthespacewithinyou
Betheawarenessthatisthespaceinwhichyousensethings
withinandaroundyou

Beawareofanythoughtsthatariseaboutsomethingwithinor
aroundyou.
Betheawarenessofthosethoughts,withoutfocussingonthe
thingyouarethinkingabout.
Betheawarenessofthething,withoutfocussingonthe
thoughtsthatariseaboutit.

Beawareofthespaceinwhichyousensesomethingwithinor
aroundyou
Beawareofthespaceinwhichthoughtsariseaboutthatthing
Betheawarenessthatisthatspacetheawarenesswithin
whichyousensethingsandwithinwhichthoughtsariseabout
them.

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10 STEPS - FROM BEING AWARE TO BEING AWARENESS

1. Be aware whenever you find yourself thinking or saying to yourself or others I am. For
example, I am lonely/depressed/anxious/afraid/
angry/bitter/worthless/trapped/frustrated/resentful/ashamed/unworthy
/ugly/unloved/guilty/bad/mad, a failure etc.

2. Fill in the blank from the words I am with your own choice of negative words.

3. Now replace the word am with the words feel and think and say to yourself I feel ... and
think I am [fill in your own words]. Do not follow the words I feel with an emotional label
but with a description of your direct bodily sensation of the feeling. Example: I feel a fluttering in
my chest which makes me think I am anxious.

4. In order not to identify with your feelings and thoughts now remove the word I. Rather than
saying to yourself I feel , I think or I am say There is an awareness of feeling which
makes me think I am [fill in your own words]. Again, do not label the feeling as an emotion
but describe how you feel it as a bodily sensation.

5. Be aware of your body as a whole and of your overall mood and sense of yourself for it is out of
this overall bodily sense of yourself that your thoughts and feelings arise.

6. Feelings and thoughts about reality are not reality. Feelings and thoughts about yourself are not
your whole self or true self. So whenever you are aware of saying I am remind yourself that I
am not this feeling of or I am not this thought that .

7. Instead say: I am the awareness of feeling or thinking or There is an awareness of feeling
or thinking . Make it a rule to use the following mantras: There is an awareness of thinking
or feeling ... or I am the awareness of feeling or thinking ...

8. Identifying with a thing or thought, feeling or belief unawares - is one thing. Being aware of
that thing or thought, feeling or belief and of the self that is identified with it is another. The
point is to be that very awareness and not anything you are aware of.

9. Whenever you feel preoccupied with disturbing thoughts or feelings, identify with empty
space. For empty space, like pure awareness, is distinct from everything we are aware of within it
- whether things or thoughts, sensations or feelings, impulses or actions.

10. Regularly take time to be fully aware of and affirm all the sensations, feelings, thoughts or life-
concerns you are aware of. But do not identify with them. Instead, attend to and sense the spaces
within and around you and say the following mantras to yourself I am nothing that I am aware
of in space. I am space itself. I am nothing I am aware of. I am the pure awareness of it. Only by
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regularly taking time to be aware can we open up a larger space of awareness one in which new
thoughts and feelings, a new sense of yourself and a new relation to the world and other people
can and will arise spontaneously. This is the basic life discipline, practice or yoga of awareness.

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ASPECTS OF THE PRACTICE OF AWARENESS

1.BEING AWARE
Taking all the time necessary to be aware of all you are experiencing inwardly and outwardly, and
of every distinct element of your experiencing, from thoughts and feelings, to somatic sensations
and every element of your sensory environment.

2.BODILY AWARENESS
Attending to the immediate bodily dimension of all that you are aware of experiencing - where
and how you feel different things you perceive or are aware of in an immediate sensual,
proprioceptive and bodily way.

3. BODYING AWARENESS
Giving some form of authentic bodily expression to your awareness, for example through your
posture, the tilt of your body or head, the look on your face or in your eyes, the tone or tempo of
your voice thus amplifying, bodying and silently communicating your awareness of it.

4. UNBOUNDING YOUR AWARENESS
Reminding yourself that your bodily awareness of your body is not itself bounded by your body,
but is an unbounded bodiless awareness that permeates your body, all of space and every body in
it.

5. BEING-IN-AWARENESS
You dwell IN awareness as you dwell in space itself. Being-in-Awareness is a way of Being
Awareness, by not identifying with what you are aware of, but identifying instead with the very
spaces of awareness, inner and outer, in which you experience them.

6. BREATHING AWARENESS
Expanding the breathing space of your awareness by giving yourself time to be aware of the way
you are - or are not breathing, by shifting your awareness TO your breathing, and experiencing
it as a breathing OF awareness feeling yourself breathing your awareness of the entire sensory
space around you through your chest surface, felt as open and porous.

7. BEING AWARENESS
Being-in, Bodying and Breathing awareness are paths that lead from Being Aware to Being
Awareness. Being Awareness means affirming and feeling the meaningfulness of all that you are
aware of, whilst not identifying with it but instead identifying with the very awareness of it
BEING that awareness instead of BINDING your awareness to what you are aware of. To BE
awareness is to be the all-round SPACE, inner and outer, in which you experience things -
including your own body. To identify with AWARENESS as such is to identify with SPACE as
such.

8.UNBINDING AWARENESS
Each time you become aware of experiencing something new, step back once again into Being
Awareness in order to UNBIND your awareness from it thus continuing both to Be Aware and
to Be Awareness rather than letting your awareness become BOUND by anything you are aware
of.

9.BEING-IN-AWARENESS WITH OTHERS
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Relating in a meditative way by using every encounter as an opportunity to give yourself time to
Be Aware of others, to Breathe in your awareness of them, and to feel the space around you both
as a space of awareness in which you can both Be in Awareness together.

10.ATTAINING AWARENESS BLISS
The bliss that arises from recognising that you are not a being with awareness but that you ARE
awareness part of the unbounded awareness that IS God. Awareness Bliss is only attained
through Being Aware, Being and Bodying Awareness, Breathing Awareness, and Being in
Awareness with others, - breathing the divine awareness that both you and others are.

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BASIC MEDITATIONAL AWARENESS PRACTICES
The Basic Practice of Awareness (1)
1.Withoutclosingyoureyes,taketimetobeawareofallthereistobeawareofbothwithinandaround
you impulses, sensations, emotions and thoughts within you the air, light, objects and space around
you.
2.Attendparticularlytoyourwordless,bodilyawarenessofallthesethingswhereandhowyousense
themwithandwithinyourbody.Forexample,beawareoftheinnervoiceyouhearspeakingthoughtsin
yourhead,oftheinnerearwithwhichyouhearthem,anddifferentsensualtexturesandqualitiesofyour
bodilyselfawareness.
3.Concentrateonsensingwhereyoufeelparticularmentalstates,moodsoremotionswithandwithin
yourbodyandhowwhichisnotasmentalemotionalstatesbutaspurelysensualtexturesandqualities
ofyourbodilyselfexperience.
4.Remindyourselfthattheawarenessofanobject,sensation,emotionorthoughtisnotitselfanobject,
sensation,emotionorthoughtthatitisinnatelyfreeofallobjects,sensations,emotionsandthoughts.
Forawarenessassuchisbothinseparableandabsolutelydistinctfromallweareawareof.
5.Withthismantraorreminderinminddonotidentifywithanythinginparticularthatyouareawareof
butratherwiththesimple,pureawarenessofit.Feelhowthispureawarenessembracesandtranscends
everything you are aware of in just the same way that the space around you embraces and yet
transcendseverythingwithinit.
6.Sensetheveryspace,lightandairaroundyouasapurespace,lightandairofawarenessonethat
permeateseveryatomandcellofyourbodyandpervadesthephysicalspacearound it. Sense yourself
breathinginthepurespace,lightandairofawarenessthrougheveryporeofyourskinandintoahollow
spaceinyourdiaphragmtheheartofthedivineawarenesswithinyou.
7. Senseyourwholebodyandselfasnothingbutamanifestationofthespacearounditofthepure
space,lightandairofawarenessitself.Remindyourselfthatthisisthedivinesourceofyourbeing,your
bodyandofeverythingandeveryoneyouareawareofwithinandaroundyou.Thus,experiencingyour
bodyandselfasanexpressionofthedivineawarenessyouuniteorjoinwithitthemeaningofyoga
andtheaimofyogameditation.
The Basic Practice of Awareness (2)

1.Closeyoureyes,andsimplyfeelthefleshly,physicalwarmthpervadingyourbody.
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2.Nowtaketimetosimplybeawareofallthemusclesyouareusingtobreathethoseofyourribcage,
back,diaphragmandabdomen.Throughthemfeelhowdeeporshallow,rapidorslowyourbreathingis
and let it be that way. Do not wilfully alter your breathing in any way unless or until a spontaneous
bodilyimpulsetodosoarises.
3.Nowtaketimetograntawarenesstodifferentareasofyourinwardlyfeltbody.Inparticularany
regionsofyourbodywhereyouhaveanysenseofdiseaseordiscomfort,whetherintheformofa
musculartension,emotionalanxietyordiscomfort,fatigueoroverfullness,dullnessordensity.
4.Stayingawareofyourbreathing,andtakingtimetograntawarenesstodifferentregionsofyourbody
in turn, allow yourself to feel how in doing so it is as if you are inwardly airing your body with your
awarenessandyourbreathing,sothatitsfeltinnerspacebeginstofeelpurified,clearandtranslucent.
5. Be aware too of any thoughts, recollections, images or concepts that arise in your mind whilst
meditating.Remindyourselfthatanymoods,emotionsorsensationsyouareawareofinyourbodyarein
turn an awareness of something to do with your personal life and world as a whole. Meditating your
immediatebodilyselfawareness,letwhateveritcallstomindinrelationtoyourlifeworldasawhole
cometomind.
6.Allowyourselftoregularlyreturnyourawarenesstoanyregionsofyourbodywhereveryoustillfeel
asenseofdisease,untiltheawarenessitselfbeginstodissipateit,lettingthemannerofyourbreathing
changeinanywayyoufeelhelpful.
7.Helpthisdissipationandclearingprocessbynowbecomingmoreawareofyourbodyasawhole,
usingyourwholebodysurfacetosensetheairandspacearoundyou,andanyscentsorsoundsinit.
8.Sustainingthisawarenessofyourbodyandsensingthespaceandairaroundit,meditateonfeeling
yourwholebodyandeveryaspectofyourselfthatyouexperiencewithinitasamanifestationofthat
surroundingairandspace.
9.Donotidentifywithanythoughts,images,emotionsorbodilysensationsbutwiththepureawareness
ofthemandfeelthispureawarenessastheveryspacearoundthem,distinctfromandyetembracingand
manifestingaseverythingwithinit,includingyourownbody.
10.Feeltheclearlight,spaceandairofpureawarenesspervadingthespacesofeveryatom,molecule
andcellofyourbodyasyoubreathe.Inthiswaybegintofeelyourbreathingasabreathingofthepure
airoraetherofawarenessthrougheveryporeofyourskin.
11.Beawareinparticularoftheregionofyourdiaphragm,andfeelyourselfbreathingthepurelight,
spaceandairofawarenessintoahollowspacewithinit.SensethisspaceastheveryheartoftheDivine
Awarenesswithinyou.
12.Experimentwithfeelingyourbodyasnothingboundedbyyourfleshbutasboundlessspace,aslight,
asair,asfieryflameandfinallyagain,assimplewarmthfeltwithinthesafecontainingwombofyour
flesh.
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CHITANANDA
Two Experiences of Awareness Bliss

Introduction

RecentlyIwasonceagainblessedwithtwofurtherofcountlessinstancesinwhichIexperiencedlongand
intenselysensuousstatesofAwarenessBliss(chitananda).Bothinstancesbeganinthesameseafronthotel
asthelastsuchexperiencethatIsharedonthisbulletinboard,andalsoatthesametimeasthesunwas
setting.Inbothinstances,KarinjiandIsatinsilenceforoveranhourindeedafulltwohoursinthesecond
instancerecountedhere.Gettingupandleavingwasdifficultforme,forIfeltIcouldhaveremainedseated
inthesameplaceandthesamestateforaneternitythestateofdeeplysensuousAwarenessBliss(chit
ananda).

Instance1:

Onceagaintherewasanawarenessoffeelingallthatcouldbeseenouttherewhetherdifferentdensities
of cloud, seagulls and waves, aeroplane vapour trails, or manmade things such as brick walls, cars,
Victorian lampposts, garage doors, drainpipes, brass doorknobs, metal road signs, a painted dustbin as
erotically sensuous shapes and textures of soul, sensed in here within my body. At the same time all
motionsofwaveorcloud,planesorpersonswerefeltasbeinginperfectharmonywiththemusicplayingin
thebackgroundinthehotelasiforchestratedbyit.

Sensuous Awareness Bliss is both ecstasy and instacy. For like the nature of the Soul Body itself,
Awarenessisecstatic,extendingoutthere,beyondtheboundariesofthefleshandsurrounding,touching
andfeelinginamostsensuousandtactilewayanythingsightedatadistanceinspace.Yetatthesametime
Awarenessisalsoinhere,feelingeachthingsightedwithintheboundariesofthefleshasasensuousshape
andtextureofinnerbodilyawarenesstheSoulBody.

WhatIespecially noted this time however, was that things I would normally perceive as ugly,decayedor
shabby appeared like the most wonderful works of art as if any one of them (the painted dustbin for
example)couldhavebeenplacedinitsownemptyroominanartgalleryasamesmerisingabstractsculpture
orcreativeinstallation.

Itseemstomethatthekeytosensuousawarenessblissliesinnottakingwhatisperceivedasthisorthat
familiar,nameablethingorperson,butinsteadlettingoneselftaketheminandbetakenupbythemintotheir
purely sensuous nature and form. This is comparable to the way infants perceive before they have been
taughtthenamesorusesofthings.Thusaninfantinthecotdoesnothearacarpassingbyonthestreet,but
experiences being inwardly and sensuously touched by an unnameable vibrational quality of sound. Nor
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doestheinfantseeitsmothersfaceorhearitsmothersvoicebutrathersensesitselfanditsfeelingtones
echoedinhertoneofvoice,mirroredinherfaceandseen(orunseen)inthelightofhergaze.

Yetasadultswecanstillchooseatanytimenottoseeabicycle,building,cloudordustbinasaabicycle,
building,cloud,ordustbinnottoseethisbuildingasashoporhouseandnottoseethisorthat
personaseitherastrangerorasanyoneIknow.

Agreatworkof artcanpreventus from interpreting what it portrays as this or that somefamiliarand
nameableobjectand/orallowsustoseesuchthings(forexampleafigure,houseorlandscape)inanew
lightfindinginnatemeaningnotinseeingitasafigure,houseorlandscapebutinitssensuousappearance
or look. The Eye of Awareness is like the eye of an abstract or expressionist artist a Kandinski or Van
Gogh.Itenablesus,liketheartist,toseeandfeeltheinnatemeaningorsensepresentwithinanysensuous
thingorform,nameableornot,andthustoseeandsenseallthingsaslivingworksofart.Inthiswaywe
transcendtheworldofnameandform(namarupa).Wedosonotbycontrollingorsuppressingthesenses
but,onthecontrary,byintensifyingourimmediatesensuousexperiencingofthingsnotseeingthemas
thisorthat(asacloudoralamppost)andinthiswaynotlettingshadows be cast on things by a prior
understandingormentalideaofwhattheyare.

ThisrecallsPlatoscaveallegory,inwhichshackledprisonersfacingacavewallmistaketheshadowsfor
theirrealityuntiloneofthemisledoutintothelight.SeeingsomethingasthisorthatwasitselfPlatos
understanding of the Greek words idea or eidos which in themselves meant nothing more than the
sensuousappearance or look of anything seen or sighted, but was extended to include the sound of
anythingheard,orthefeelofanythingtouched.SensuousAwarenessBlissisenlightenmentintheliteral
senseseeingthingsinthelightofawarenessaspurelysensuousforms(Plato)orideashapes(Seth),all
ofwhichareessentiallyformsandideashapesofAwarenessitselfandofitsLight.
SeeingandsensingwhateverissightedintheLightofAwarenessandthroughTheEyeofAwarenessina
purelysensuousandaconceptualwaytherewas(andis)nothingmerelycommonplaceintheworldofthe
senses. As an example, looking at the bar in the hotel, it was not the multicoloured range of bottles of
brandy and other spirits that drew my gaze and excited my senses to an intense pitch instead it was a
simpleplasticmilkbottleofthesortonebuysinthesupermarketalmostemptybutforafewcentimetresof
remainingmilk.Nexttoitwasafullplasticcontainerofmilkofthesamesort,butthiswaslessinwardly
touchinganderoticthanthealmostemptyoneinwhichtherelationofinnerfullnessandemptinesswas
itselffullofinnatesensuousmeaning.

Thentherewerepeoplebodies.Manyofthesemightnormallyhavestruckmeassomewhatrepulsive,ugly,
fat,misshapen,badlydressedorsomehowdistortedordisfigured in their posture, look and expression.
Yet now I saw each persons body as an odd or eccentric but nevertheless perfect living version of
themselvestheverydistortions,odditiesoreccentricitiesintheirappearanceordressbeingwhatmade
them such fascinatingly unique living sculptures and works of art. I was reminded of Jane Roberts, who
describesaverysimilarexperienceofpeopleinoneofherbooksthatofseeingeverypersononastreetas
butoneeccentricyetperfectversionofthemselves.

Yetifmyexperienceofbothpeopleandthingsinaheightenedstateofsensuousawarenesswasbutasmall
taste of the erotic intensity with which IT the One Pure Awareness or Paramashiva constantly and
continuouslyexperiencesthesensuousbeautyandmeaningofallmanifestbodiesandbeingsinthecosmos
(allitsShaktis)thenITmusttrulyandindeedbeinastatethatcouldbedescribedastantriceroticecstasy
and instacy, comparable to an neverending orgasm of Awareness Bliss, the eternal sexual union or
MaithunaofthedivinecoupleorYamalaShivaandShakti.

OthershavecomparedmyaccountsofextendedandintensifiedawarenessblisswithexperiencesonLSD.
Yet had I myself only been able to understand or bracket the experiences in this way as a sort of
spontaneousandenjoyabletrip without drugs I believe the experiences themselves would neither have
been possible in the first place, nor assumed the particular character that they had. Herein lies a paradox
however. For without the capacity for a higherlevel awareness or recognition of the resulting state of
consciousnessassomethingfarmoreprofoundthanameredruginducedalterationofbrainchemistry,not
evenadrugsuchasLSDcouldhaveinducedit.

Awareness Bliss teaches that all that can be perceived with the senses is imbued with innate sense or
meaningpossessingabeautyofitsownandthatthereforethereisnothingthatisugly.Ihavelonghad
similarexperiencesintantricpairmeditations.NobodyIhavemeditatedwith,whethermanorwoman,and
nomatterhowattractiveinconventionaltermsornot,hasnotappearedtomeasanythingelsethandivinely
beautifulinmeditation.ThatiswhyIamsoglad that Karin Heinitz has published a book entitled Tantric
PoetryMyLordoftheLivingLightwhichshareshersensuousexperiencesoftantricinitiation(diksha)
throughtantricpairmeditation(maithuna).

Karika

SunsetandSunrise.
TheSettingSunisthedawning,
RisingSunoftheOneDivineAwareness
ItsSkymaderadiantbytheLivingLightofAwareness
ThatLightwhichaloneletthingsbeseen,andwhichalso
AndaloneletsusseethingsintheirtruelighttheDivineLight,
RevealingthemaslivingshapesofthatLight,yetnowfreedof
Theshadowscastbyanyandallideaswemayhaveofthem.
Forathingitselfisnothingbutaneidosoridea,andthatin
ExactlythewayinwhichtheGreeksunderstoodthesewords:
Notasideasorimagesinourheads,butasthevery
Beingnessofthingssightedandsensedoutthere
Justastheypresentthemselvestothesoulthrough
Thesensesthemselves,andnotthroughanymental
Conceptorideaofwhattheyareorwhatweare.
Forwetooarenothingbutsensuouslivingshapesof
ThelightoftheLivingLightofAwareness
BroughttolightbyItsinvisibleSunwhich
Forevershinesbutneversetsorrises,our
LordoftheLivingLight.
Practiceguide1

Seat yourself comfortably, and in total silence, in a place with a variety of sights and sounds. Allow
something,howevercommonplace,toattractyoursensoryattentionandseeitjustasitisattendingpurely
toitssensoryformandfeaturesratherthanseeingitasthisorthatasaglassortable,carorchair.
Let more and more things attract your attention in this way, seeking to sense them with and within your
wholebody,aswellasseeingthemyoureyes.

Instance2:

Aweeklater, in the same place and at the same time, there followed yet another experience of Sensuous
AwarenessBliss,thistimecharacterisedentirelybythedimensionofauralratherthanvisualexperiencing.It
wasasif,sittingthistimewitheyesclosedandearswideopen,Iwasimmersedinasonorousbath,one
which was at the same time a veritable symphony of distinct and diverse sounds background music and
soundsfromtherestaurantkitchen,theairhumofanextractorfan,theclinkingofcutleryandofmetalcoins
inthecashtill,thechinkingoficecubesinabucketandthecrashofanemptyglassbottlebeingdropped
intoabottlebin,theswingingsoundofdoors,openingandclosing,thesoftpaddingsoundoffootstepsas
people walked to and fro, and together with all this the murmur of human voices of different pitches and
tones.Thissymphonyofsoundswasaperfectsymphony,withallitssoundsinharmony with one another
andevenwiththesoundsofactualmusicbeingplayedinthebackground.Andlikeamusicalsymphonyit
haditsphasesofaccelerationanddeceleration,asthegeneralhubbubofactivityandsoundsnowincreased,
nowdecreased,raisedorlowereditselfinpaceandvolumeyetagaininperfectsynchronicitywithchanges
inthemusicitself.Thenagain,asinasymphony,therewereongoingthemesinthiscasethemellowtoned
voiceofaYorkshireaccentedmansittingatatablebehindme,andtheoccasionallowmurmurofhiswifein
response.

Yetthesymphonywasalsoabrilliantsymphony,nevermonotonousorpurelyrepetitive,butwithnewand
unexpectedsoundsemergingatunpredictableintervalsaburstofspeechorlaughter,thesoundofachair
beingscrapedalongthefloor,theclankofabeerorwineglassbeingsetdownratherloudlyonatable,orthe
steamysoundofanespressomachinebeingactivated.

Whatwasimportantwasnotjusthearingthesesoundswithmyearsbutsensingthemwithandwithinmy
wholebody.Thussoundsheardfrombehindmybackwerefeltastouchingaregionofmybackwiththeir
vibration.Ihavealreadyreferredtotheinfantsexperienceofsounds,soundsthattheyhavenotyetlearned
tonameoridentifyasatypeofinnervibrationaltouch.Andindeedthevoicetonesandpitchesofpeople
speakingwerefeltfromwithinmybody,arisingfromexactlythesameregionsorresonantcavitieswhether
head,chestorbellyasintheirs.Everysoundliterallytouchedandexcitedapartofmybody,whetherfrom
withoutorwithin,inawaythathadanalmosteroticqualitythusgivingthewholeexperiencethenaturenot
justofawarmsonorousbathorperfectsymphonybutalsoandaboveallawonderfullydeepandblissfully
relaxingsonorousmassage.Theexperienceofsoundsasthesonorousbathiscomparable,Ibelieve,tothe
experienceinthewarmwatersofthemotherswomb,whereitistheauralratherthanvisualdimensionof
thebabyssensoryawarenessoftheworldthatispredominantjustasitisthemothersvoiceandthetactile
dimensionofherembraceandtouchthatismostsignificantinearlyinfancy.Thesoulbodyisawombof
fluidfeelingawareness.Itssurfacecanbedescribedasasonorousskinsensitivetothevibrationaltouch
ofsoundsfromwithoutabletofeelandresonatewithinthemfromwithin.

Ihavealsoreferredtothewayinwhich,seeingthings,onecangainadirecttactilesenseoftheirtextures
the materials they are made of sensing these as textures of ones own inwardly felt body. Seeing the
smoothtranslucentsurfaceofaglassonesensesitsglassytexture,whichisatthesametimecloselyrelated
tothesounditwouldmakeifstruck.Soitwasthatwithmyeyesopenjustbeforeleavingtherestaurant,I
observedashelvestackedwithemptyglassesinthebar,andinseeingthemalsofeltandheardtheirsmooth
glassytextureassilentorpotentialsound.Ialsonotonlysawbutsensedandheardthesightofpurewhite
milkbeingpouredintoaglassjug,feelingthemilkswhiteness,fluidityandflowasasilentsound.Whether
itwasthesoundofglassonglass,metalonmetal,woodonwood,orglassormetalonwood,thesesounds
resound with and reveal to one ears the different textures of things. This is similar to the way sight too
revealsthewayathingwouldpotentiallyfeeltoonestouchorhowitwouldweighinoneshands.

Leavingtherestaurant, walking around in the open air and then riding home on my bike, I found myself
acutelyawareofthedifferentsensuoustexturesofmuscle,tissueandbonethatmadeupmyownfeltbody.
Through my legs and feet, indeed even through the metallic structure and rubber tyres of my bike, I was
acutelyawareofthetexturesofpavementandtarmac,moreorlessevenoruneven,uponwhichIwalkedor
rode.Thebikehadbecome,inamostunusuallyintenseway,anextensiontomybodybutinsuchawayas
toenablemetofeelthequalitiesofthegroundbeneathitthroughoutmyentirebody,alongwithitsvarietyof
sensuoustextures.

Beingonceagainintheopenofcoursemadememoreawareofdistantsoundssuchasthecriesofseagullsin
thesky.Inthisway,liketheopensightofskyandsea,soundscanexpandoursenseofspace.Yetitwasthe
enclosedspaceoftherestaurant,whichliketheenclosedspaceofthewomborofasymphonyconcerthall,
facilitated the experience of the sonorous bath, sonorous touch and sonorous massage. Space as such
howeverisessentiallyasingularopenness.Itisonlyourperceptionofitthatmaybeenclosed,dividedor
blockedbythewallsofbuildingsandrooms.Essentiallyalso,spaceisnothingbutourwayofperceivingthe
openexpanseofpuresensefreeawarenesswithinwhichalonethingscanappeartousbeseenorheard,
touchedandfelt.

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Listentosoundsthatcatchyourattention.
Hearthemjustastheyare,notassoundsofthisorthatthingorperson.
Dontjusthearthemwithyourearsbutsensethemwithyourwholebody.
Feelthemtouchingyoufromwithoutandresonatinginyoufromwithin.
Senseyourwholebodyasasonorousskin.

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TheexperiencesofSensuousAwarenessBlissrecountedhereandelsewhere,howeverintense,shouldby
nomeansbeconsideredasbasicallyunusualoroutoftheordinary.Onthecontrary,theysimplyserveto
remindusthatwecan,atanytime,givemoretimetoourimmediatesensoryawarenessofthings,andinthis
wayreapthehugehealingvalueofpuresensefreeawarenesswhichispreciselythatwhichintensifiesour
experiencingofthesensory,allowingustosensewithandwithinourbodiesandthatinamosttangible,
tactileanderoticwayeverythingthatweotherwisemerelyseewithoureyesorhearwithourears.Through
heightenedsensoryawarenesswecanalsocometoexperiencethehealingpowerofthesoundsthatallthings
essentiallyarelettingthemtouchandmassageusfromwithinandwithout.Themostfundamentalhealing
dimension of Sensuous Awareness Bliss lies in helping us to recognise how pure awareness itself can
returnustooursenseslettingusliterallycometooursensesinanotherwiseinsaneworld.

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Listentosomethingyousee,whetheratableortree,cloudorpieceofcutlery.
Particularlyifitmakesnoaudiblesound,senseitsvisibleshapeandtextureasasound.Seeitasasculpture.
Hearitasasilentsound.
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Note: this meditation is to be practiced in the true tantric manner attending to your inner
space but with your eyes still open. This is so that you can stay aware of the entire space around
you (Bhairava Mudra), expanding your awareness into that space and experiencing everything in
it as an expression of it. This practice of Khechari Mudra uniting the Kingdom outside with the
Kingdom inside - is the key to all the miraculous Siddhis exercised by great Yogis, Gurus and
Avatars.

1. Bring your awareness to the inwardly sensed surface of your chest and body as a whole.
From that surface sense the empty spaces in front of, above, behind and to either side of
your body.
2. Attend entirely to your awareness of regions of empty space - those above and around
your body, and those above, around and between other bodily objects or people.
3. Be aware of the sky above and of the unlimited expanse of cosmic space, and of all empty
regions of space in your immediate vicinity or scope of vision.
4. Sense all regions of empty space as part of an unlimited space of pure awareness a space
totally untainted by any psychical qualities, be they the atmosphere of places, the aura of
people and the mood or space you or others may feel themselves in.
5. Feel your body surface again, this time sensing a hollow space of pure awareness within it
a space equally untainted by any thoughts, feelings or sensations you experience within it.
6. Identify with the spaces of awareness around and between all that you experience outside
and inside you the space around and between your thoughts, emotions and physical
sensations, the space around and between your body and other bodies.
7. Attend to your breathing, and feel yourself breathing in the luminous translucency of the
space around you, first through your chest and body surface as a whole - experiencing this
as a breathing of pure awareness.
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uniting a content-free space of pure awareness within you with the empty space of pure
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they arise. Recognising this Fundamental Distinction allows us to ThePracticeofAwareness
makeaFundamentalChoicebetweenfocussingon,identifyingwith
andthusbindingourselvestothecontentsofourconsciousnessor WhoorWhatistheExperiencingSelf?
identifying with the pure awareness of them, an awareness that is WelcometotheWorldofAwareness
innately free of thought, emotional charge or any element of our
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The Awareness Principle recognises the transcendental Presuppositions
characterofawareness.Italsorecognisesitsimmanentcharacter
FirstPrinciplesof'TheAwareness
that awareness is also present within each and everything we are Principle'
awareof.Awarenesstranscendseverythingweareawareofforitis
theultimatesourceofallthatis.Preciselybecauseitisthesourceof TheAwarenessPrincipleassole'Theory
everythinghowever,everythingweareawareofisalsoanawareness ofEverything'
in its own right. Every sensation, feeling or thought, every physical Awarenessasthenew1stPrincipleof
ormentalsymptomisitselfanawarenessofsomethingbeyonditself Science
forexampleasituationorsomethinggoingoninanotherperson.
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A bodily sensation such as hotness or sweating is not just
somethingweareawareof.Itisalsoourwayofsensingsomething 'Awareness','Consciousness'andthe
beyond it for example the heat of the Sun or something we are 'Unconscious'
anxious about. Similarly any feeling is not just something we are Awareness,Spaceand'Spirituality'
aware of. Instead it is a prereflective or unformulated awareness
of something or someone beyond itself (a relationship, situation or Awarenessand'Psychology'
life question for example) just as a thought may be a reflective and
Awarenessor'Energy'?
formulated awareness of something beyond it. Even a bodily
symptomormentalstatesuchasanxietyordepressionforexample, TheUltimateMetaphysicsofAwareness
is not just something we are aware of. Nor is it a life problem in
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Awareness itself and not any thing or universe of things we are
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EveryaspectandapplicationofTheAwarenessPrinciplecomes TheAwaresssPrincipleversusAccepted
Presuppositions
fromtherecognitionthatawarenesscomesfirstnotmatter,energy
oranythingorworldofthings.Theunderlyingbutunquestioned, FirstPrinciplesof'TheAwareness
untestable,unprovableandfundamentallycounterintuitiveprinciple Principle'
of current science is that awareness can somehow emerge from a
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basically insentient or unaware universe of space and time, matter ofEverything'
and energy. How awareness could arise from this unaware universe
is not just something temporarily inexplicable, and therefore a Awarenessasthenew1stPrincipleof
subjectofscientifichypothesis.Itisinexplicableinprinciple.Forjust Science
asthestartingpointofallinquiriesintothenatureoftheuniverseis FurtherAxiomsofTheAwareness
awareness of that universe, so is the starting point of all scientific Principle
inquiries into awareness nothing but awareness itself. Every
scientificattempttoexplaintheoriginsorbasisofconsciousness 'Awareness','Consciousness'andthe
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or awareness through something outside or beyond awareness is
scientifically impossible in principle the very attempt and all the Awareness,Spaceand'Spirituality'
experimentsthatgoalongwithitbeingsomethingthatoccurwithin
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counselling and psychotherapy). Instead, the aim of The Awareness THERAPY(ABCT)
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phenomenology, in Gestalt psychology and psychoanalysis. None
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those found in Indian Advaitic and Tantric philosophy explicitly FURTHERPRACTICESOF
articulateditsFirstPrinciple.Nordidtheyproperlyconceptualiseits AWARENESS
SecondPrinciple.
The Second Principle of The Awareness Principle is that PracticingSittingasMeditation
Awareness as such is inseparable but also quite distinct from each MeditatingAwarenessasSpace
andeverythingweareawareof. AspectsofthePracticeofAwareness
Awareness
OutofthisprinciplecomeswhatIcallTheFundamentalChoice IntroducingotherstoTheAwareness
a choice that each of us can make at any moment of our lives. The PrincipleanditsBasicPractices
choice is whether to identify with things we are aware of or MicroMeditations
experience whether in the form of desires and impulses,
sensations or perceptions, emotions or events or, on the other
hand, to identify with the very awareness of them recognising that THENEWYOGAOFAWARENESS
awareness as something essentially distinct from each and every
thingweexperienceorareawareofwithinit,includingourselves.
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The Third Principle of Awareness is that it embraces, pervades
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The relation between awareness as such and all that we are
aware of can be compared to the relation between space and the
things we perceive in it. Space embraces each object within it, yet
whilst it is inseparable from each of the objects within it, it is not
itself an object and transcends all the objects within it. Objects
havelocationwecansaywheretheyareinspace.Spaceitselfon
the other hand has an essentially nonlocal or field character we LookInside
cannotsaywherespaceis.Similarly,whereaswecanlocaliseeach
andeveryobjectorthingweareawareofforexamplelocalisingan

objectinspace,asensationinourbodiesorathoughtinourheads
we cannot localise the awareness of it we cannot say where our
awarenessofanythingis.ThemostimportantofIndiantreatiseson
awareness placed great importance on the yogic practice of

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an awareness of something else a passing car, a conversation, a
bird singing. Yet the bird too is not just something we are aware of
butisitselfanawarenessofauniquesort.Itssongisanexpression
ofthatawareness. The birdsawarenessisverydifferentfromours,
anditisthatwhichisechoedinthesoundofitssonginthesame
way that any singers awareness is. Similarly, when we hear a car
hornhonkinginabusystreet,thisisnotjustasoundweareaware
of. Indeed we only hear the sound as a car honking because the
sound we are aware of is an awareness of a car honking. That
awarenessofacarhornhonkingisinturnanawarenesstooofthe
stress or anger of the driver honking the horn, of the drivers
awarenessofthetraffic,and/ortheirawarenessoffeelingstressedor
awarenessofthetraffic,and/ortheirawarenessoffeelingstressedor
impatient.
Simplyreadingatextorhearingapersonspeakwearenotjust
aware of words. Indeed we are only aware of words as words
becauseweareawareofthemasexpressionsofanotherawareness
the awareness of the speaker or writer. In general, any thought,
mood, emotion, perception, action or bodily sensation is not just
something we are aware of but is an awareness of some aspect of
ourselvesorothers,ofourworld,ourrelationshipsorlifesituation.
Whatwelabelasstress,tension,anxietyanddepressionarenot
things in themselves that we happen to feel. They are a felt
awareness of important aspects of our lives, life relationships and
lifeworld.Andthereisnothingwecaneverbeawareofintheworld
that is not itself an awareness. Just as fright is an awareness of
something in the surrounding world, even a stone is aware of its
environment,indeedisanawarenessofitsownenvironmentalworld.
Every thing we are aware of in the world is aware of a world of
things as a whole, experiencing its own unique awareness world
whether that of a stone, bird or another human being. The higher
level awareness that everything we are aware of is an awareness of
somethingelsewithinourawarenessworld,andthatthissomething
else is also an awareness indeed an entire awareness world in
itself this awareness is what expands our awareness to embrace
newawarenessworlds.TheAwarenessPrinciplerecognisesthatwe
are part of an everexpanding multidimensional universe of
awarenessembracingcountlessthingseachanawarenessinitself
and each part of its own unique awareness world. The expanding
nature of the physical universe is an expression of the innately
expansive character of awareness itself, which constantly opens up
newworldsofawarenessfromwithinitself.
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contrast to the dogma shared by modern science and New Age
pseudoscience alike that everything is energy. As a Theory of SelectLanguage
EverythingthisEnergyPrincipleisdogmaticbecauseitrestsona Poweredby Translate
notionofenergythatiswhollyunquestionedandagrossdistortion
of its root meaning. Even in modern translations of Tantric
metaphysicsthisGreekderivedwordisdistortedlyusedtotranslate ESSAYSONTHEAWARENESS
the Sanskrit term for the feminine aspect of divinity Shakti. A far PRINCIPLEBYPETERWILBERG
bettertranslationofthiswordisnotenergyinitscurrentsensebut
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actualisation.ThistranslationofShaktifullyaccordswiththeroot FromFocaltoFieldAwareness
meaning of the term energy itself not as some thing but as the
veryactionoractivity(theGreekverbenergein)thatgivesformtoall TakingTimetoBeAware
thingsfromwithinthatinfinitespaceoraetherofawarenessknown ThePracticeofAwareness
in Sanskrit as Akasha. Today many scientists advance the highly
plausiblebutstillunorthodoxhypothesisthatspaceisnomerevoid WhoorWhatistheExperiencingSelf?
or vacuum, but an infinite source of potential energy or power of
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action.ThishypothesisisinperfectcorrespondencewiththeTantric
understandingoftheuniverseasanexpressionofcountlessShaktis MeditationasaPracticeofAwareness
orpowersofactionemergingwithinaninfinitespaceoraetherof
awareness (Akasha) and manifesting as countless patterns or TheAwaresssPrincipleversusAccepted
Presuppositions
matrices of action (matter). From the point of view of The
Awareness Principle, awareness is not awareness of actual realities FirstPrinciplesof'TheAwareness
alone,butalsoofpotentialrealities.Potentialrealitieshowever,have Principle'
realityonlysubjectivelyinawarenessitselfratherthaninactuality.
These subjective potentialities do not merely exist as imaginary ofEverything'
possibilities however, but as infinite potential shapes, patterns and
qualities of awareness or subjectivity infinite potential beings, Awarenessasthenew1stPrincipleof
consciousnesses or subjectivities. Energy in its true and root Science
meaning is the autonomous power of actualisation of these FurtherAxiomsofTheAwareness
potentialities something possible only through the awareness of Principle
them. Together with the scientific notion of space as a potential
source of limitless free energy goes the project, pursued by many 'Awareness','Consciousness'andthe
'Unconscious'
greatscientificminds,ofcreatingmachinestotapthisenergyasa
source of power. The Awareness Principle (TAP) on the other hand, Awareness,Spaceand'Spirituality'
explainshoweverythingthatexistsintheuniverseconstantlyTAPS
fromahiddenpowersourcebehinditapowerofactionthatisnot Awarenessand'Psychology'
somemysteriousnewformofenergyormatterbutisnothingother Awarenessor'Energy'?
than Awareness as such in the form of its aetheric spatiality
Akasha. Each of us experiences this aspect of The Awareness TheUltimateMetaphysicsofAwareness
Principleandrealisestheideaoffreespaceenergyeachtimewe
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feel revitalised by taking a walk outdoors, however short. For no
matter how little bodily breathing or exercise is involved we are Summary
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Theegoorconsciousmind,ontheotherhand,isnotmorebut
lessconsciousthanthisunconsciousitisacontractionofthe ThePracticeofAwareness
UniversalConsciousnesswithintheUniversalConsciousness. WhoorWhatistheExperiencingSelf?
HencetheUniversalConsciousnessunconsciouslytotheego
constantlyseekswaystoexpressallthatescapesthecontracted MeditationasaPracticeofAwareness
awarenessofegoconsciousness. TheAwaresssPrincipleversusAccepted
Presuppositions
TheUniversalConsciousnessisnotawarenessofthingsbut FirstPrinciplesof'TheAwareness
Principle'
awarenessassuch.Itisnotyoursorminebuttheessenceofthe
Divine,aconsciousnessuniversalandunbounded. TheAwarenessPrincipleassole'Theory
ofEverything'
God is not a supreme being with consciousness, nor does any Awarenessasthenew1stPrincipleof
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person or being have or possess consciousness as its private
property.InsteadGodisconsciousness. FurtherAxiomsofTheAwareness
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'Awareness','Consciousness'andthe
Allindividualbeingsandpersonsareboundedportions,expressions 'Unconscious'
andpersonificationsoftheUniversalConsciousnessthatisGod.
Awareness,Spaceand'Spirituality'
Thebodilyboundariesofindividualconsciousnessnomoreseparate Awarenessand'Psychology'
it from the Universal Consciousness than does the skin of a fish Awarenessor'Energy'?
separateitfromtheocean.
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Manypeoplespeakofconsciouslycreatingtheirreality.Intruthitis
theirunconsciousintheFreudiansensethatcreatestheirreality COUNSELLING,MEDITATIONAND
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In essence however, what is called theunconscious (ucs) is the

UniversalConsciousness(UCS).
Theegoorconsciousmind,ontheotherhand,isnotmorebut
lessconsciousthanthisunconsciousitisacontractionofthe
UniversalConsciousnesswithintheUniversalConsciousness. PETERWILBERG
The Universal Consciousness has the innate power or capacity to

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give form to itself manifest, individualise and personify itself in AWARENESS
infinite potential forms. Thus it not only transcends and surrounds BasicMeditationalAwarenessPractices
butpervadesallitsmanifestationsallbeings. Meditation,Movementand'JustSitting'
The Universal Consciousness is truly transcendent and immanent MeditatingAwarenessasSpace
surroundingandpervadingallthings. AspectsofthePracticeofAwareness
Awareness
Everything actual is a form taken by the Universal Consciousness IntroducingotherstoTheAwareness
within the Universal Consciousness. There can be nothing outside PrincipleanditsBasicPractices
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theUniversalConsciousnessastherecanbenothingoutsidespace
orbeforetime.
We are inside God. Jane Roberts. Everything exists within the

UniversalConsciousnesswithinGod. OURSPACIOUSBODYOFAWARENESS
BeinginseparablefromtheTheUniversalConsciousnessasawhole
everybeingisthatConsciousnessasawhole,isGod. Buy'TheAwarenessPrinciple'byPeter
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BeingadistinctportionofTheUniversalConsciousnessasawhole
everythingisatthesametimeauniqueexpressionofitagod.
Godisnotaperson.YetallpersonsarebothGodandgodsbeing
both portions of the Universal Consciousness as a whole, and
individualisedpersonificationsofit.

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being a personification or face (persona) of the Universal
Consciousness.
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As individualised consciousnesses we experience ourselves as
bodies in space. In contrast, the Universal Consciousness
experiencesitselfinthesamewaythatspacemightexperienceboth
itself and the bodies in it as that which both surrounds and
pervadesthem.
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own bodies as it does, as within it and not just in it, we are
identifyingwiththeUniversalConsciousness.
SpaceandtimeassucharetheprimaryexpressionoftheUniversal
Consciousnessinourspacetimereality.
The Universal Consciousness is an infinite timespace or time

sphere of awareness embracing all realities past, present and
future,actualandpotential.

Ordinary consciousness is a narrow, focussed awareness, like a
torchlight in a dark room. The Universal Consciousness is like light
pervadingspaceinalightenedroomorsunnyday.
LightmanifeststhelightoftheUniversalConsciousnessthe
LightofAwareness.
SpacemanifeststheuniversalfieldandaetheroftheUniversal
Consciousness.
AirisamanifestationoftheimmanentvitalityoftheUniversal
Consciousness.
WaterisamanifestationoftheoceanicfluidityoftheUniversal
Consciousness.
Fire manifests the transformative power of the Universal

Consciousness.
EarthandotherplanetsarematerialisedplanesoftheUniversal
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BodiesareallembodimentsoftheUniversalConsciousness.
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The Principles and Practices of Awareness both in their

traditionalexpositionasmillenniaoldyogicphilosophicalprinciples
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share in common a crucial understanding of the spiritual, albeit
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spirituality, the spiritual world etc. Western spirituality gives
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metaphysicalandreligiousprimacytothenotionofspiritassuch
even though its nature is never exactly defined. In contrast, Indian
religious metaphysics gives primacy to the notion of space or
Akasha (pronounced aakash). The Awareness Principle too,
understands space as a primary dimension of subjectivity or
awareness, indeed as identical with that pure or transcendental Home
awareness which is God. That is why one of the most important if
notprimaryPracticesofAwarenessadvocatedintheShaivistTantras
(in particular the Vijnanabhairavatantra) is the expansion of TakingTimetoBeAware
awarenessthroughidentificationwithspace.
ThetermAkashaistranslatedbothasspaceandasaetheror ThePracticeofAwareness
ether.Thatisbecauseitisunderstoodaspervadedbyawarenessin WhoorWhatistheExperiencingSelf?
the form of Prana the primordial air, wind or breath of
awareness. This is also the root meaning of spirit in its derivation WelcometotheWorldofAwareness
from Latin spirare (to breathe), the term spiritus being a Latin
translation of the Greek pneuma (air/wind) and cognate also with
the root meaning of the Greek psyche (breath). To be spiritual in TheAwaresssPrincipleversusAccepted
theIndianyogicsenseistobecapable,quiteliterally,ofadifferent, Presuppositions
more primordial type of respiration or breathing. This primordial
respirationisatranspirationinwhichwesenseourselvesbreathing Principle'
inourawarenessoftheclear,luminousexpansivenessofthespace
aroundus,notthroughourlungsalonebutthrougheveryporeofour TheAwarenessPrincipleassole'Theory
skin. In this way we can come to experience breathing as an in ofEverything'
breathofthepureairofawarenessitself.Itisnotjusttheimmaterial Awarenessasthenew1stPrincipleof
nature of this higher air or aether of awareness, but this longlost Science
experienceofbreathingthisimmaterialairthatliesconcealedbehind
theotherwisevagueWesternnotionofspirit.Incontrastitisgiven FurtherAxiomsofTheAwareness
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muchricherdefinitionthroughtheyogictermPranaunderstoodas
thatinvisiblebreathorairofawarenessthatpervadestheentiretyof 'Awareness','Consciousness'andthe
space both the space around us and the space which constitutes 'Unconscious'
thelargerpartofeveryatomofmatter.
The twinmeaning of Akasha as (1) space and (2) aether,
together with the meaning of aether itself as a purer, higher Awarenessand'Psychology'
indeedlessairfilledandthusmorespaciousairissymbolisedby
theHimalayanmountaintop,bothasaplaceofmeditationandasthe Awarenessor'Energy'?
very abode of the Hindu god Shiva that deity who is both Lord of TheUltimateMetaphysicsofAwareness
Yoga and who personifies and embodies the absolute or divine
awarenessassuch. QuestionsandAnswers

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1. The 1st Principle of The Awareness Principle is that Translate

Awarenessitselfandnotmatter,energyoranythingoruniverse
of things we are aware of IS the 1st Principle of the universe,
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beingthatalonewhichtruly'is'andtheessentialnatureofreality.
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Forjustasdreamingassuch cannot be reduced to an 'effect

orresultofanythingwedreamof,norcanawarenessassuchbe
reduced to the product or property of any thing or being it is ESSAYSONTHEAWARENESS
aware of whether the body or brain, matter or energy, human PRINCIPLEBYPETERWILBERG
beingsorasupremebeing. Home

2.Awarenessisinsteadthetranscendentalconditionthepre
condition or field condition for our awareness of any thing or TakingTimetoBeAware
universeofthingswhatsoever.

3. Awareness both embraces and transcends all that we WhoorWhatistheExperiencingSelf?
experience or are aware of all contents of consciousness and
allelementsanddimensionsofexperience.
5. Just as empty space is both inseparable and at the same
timeabsolutelydistinctfromeverythinginit,soispureawareness Presuppositions
awareness as such both inseparable and at the same time
absolutelydistinctfromeachandeverythingitisawareof. FirstPrinciplesof'TheAwareness
Principle'

6. Just as empty space embraces, permeates and transcends TheAwarenessPrincipleassole'Theory
every object in it, so does awareness embrace, permeate and ofEverything'
transcendeverythingitareawareof. Awarenessasthenew1stPrincipleof
Science
7.Awarenessofanythingisnotitselfa'thing'.Thusawarenessof
alocalisedobjectinspaceisnotitselfalocalisedobjectinspace Principle
itisnonlocalandobjectfree.
'Unconscious'
8.Theawarenessofanythoughtorthing,feelingorsensationis
notitselfathoughtorthng,feelingorsensationandistherefore Awareness,Spaceand'Spirituality'
in itself innately free of thoughts and things, feelings and
Awarenessand'Psychology'
sensations.
9.Everythingthereisanawarenessof,however,alsoisawareit
is an awareness in its own right. Not just every other person or
evert living being, but every atom or molecule, rock or plant, QuestionsandAnswers
planetorsunisanawarenessinitsownright.
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10. Awareness is therefore not only transcendent but also Summary2
immanentpresentwithinallthings.Thereisthereforenosuch
'thing' as an insentient matter, and nor in principle, can
awarenessarisefromanuniverseofinsentientthings.
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11. Every thing or 'being' everything that 'is' is an
individualisedportion,expressionandembodimentofauniversal AWARENESSBASEDCOGNITIVE
awarenessonethatisnot'yours'or'mine'buttheveryessence THERAPY(ABCT)
oftheDivine. AwarenessorMindfulnessBased
Therapy(MBCT)
12. All things and all worlds, all bodies and all
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12. All things and all worlds, all bodies and all selves, are
shapes taken by awareness within awareness giving form AWARENESSANDSOMATICILLNESS
toinfinitepotentialitiesofawareness. TheBodyasaLanguageofAwareness

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awarebeingsandnothingtobeawareof.Itistheotherwayround. Poweredby Translate
Withoutawarenessassuchtherewouldbenothingnothing,
nobeingsandnoworldoruniversetobeawareof.
2.Awarenesscannotinprinciplebeapropertyorbyproductof PRINCIPLEBYPETERWILBERG
anybodyorbeing,thingorobject,selforsubject,egoorIthat Home
weareawareof.
3. Awareness as such, and any thing we are aware of, are like TakingTimetoBeAware
space and objects in space. They are both inseparable and yet
absolutelydistinct. ThePracticeofAwareness
4.Everythingweareawareofhasalocalisablecharacteritcan
be localised in space. Awareness, like space, has an essentially
nonlocalorfieldcharacter.Consciousnessis'focal'awareness. MeditationasaPracticeofAwareness
Awarenessisnonlocalor'field'consciousness.
Presuppositions
5.Spacehasaninsidebuttherecanbenothingoutsidespace,
justastherecanbenothing'before'or'after'time.Similarlythere FirstPrinciplesof'TheAwareness
canbenothingoutside,beforeorafterawareness. Principle'
6. Since there is nothing outside awareness, everything we are ofEverything'
aware of exists within awareness, and can be nothing but a Awarenessasthenew1stPrincipleof
manifestformtakenbyawareness. Science
7. Energy (Greek energein) is not a thing but the formative Principle
activityofawarenessthroughwhichitactualisesorgivesshapeto
itselfineverythingweareawareof. 'Awareness','Consciousness'andthe
'Unconscious'
8.Consciousnessisawareness'of'things,ratherthanawareness Awareness,Spaceand'Spirituality'
as such. Since without awareness there would be nothing to be
aware of, awareness is the precondition for all conscious
experiencing. Awarenessor'Energy'?
9.Allsensoryqualitiesthatweareaware'of'colour,shape,textureetc.are
expressions of innate sensual qualities, shapes and textures of awareness as QuestionsandAnswers
such.
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10.Anymanifestform(Greekmorphe)ofawarenessisautomatically
stabilised through selfresonance with its reality as a potential
pattern or quality of awareness. This is the true meaning and COUNSELLING,MEDITATIONAND
essenceoftheterm"morphicresonance"(RupertSheldrake). YOGA

11.Allshapes,patternsandqualitiesofawarenessareessentially AWARENESSBASEDCOGNITIVE
THERAPY(ABCT)
tonalshapes,patternsandqualitieslikethequalitiesofwarmth
andcoldness,hardnessandsoftness,brightnessordarknessetc. AwarenessorMindfulnessBased
that belong to musical or vocal tones, and their patterning as Therapy(MBCT)
sounds.
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sounds.
12. Being or existing is inconceivable without a primordial TheBodyasaLanguageofAwareness
awarenessofBeingorofbeings.Thismakesawarenessassucha
more primordial reality than either any being or Being as such.
The very 'being' of awareness is itself a primordial awareness of FURTHERESSAYSANDBOOKSBY
being. PETERWILBERG
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1. Awareness cannot in principle be reduced to the product ExpandingSpatialAwareness
orpropertyofanythingweareawareof. AspectsofthePracticeofAwareness
2. Awarenessis not a product of the body or brain. How can it be, 10StepsFromBeingAwaretoBeing
sincebodiesandbrainshaverealityonlyinawareness? Awareness
3.Awarenessisnotboundedbyourphysicalbodies.Howcanitbe, PrincipleanditsBasicPractices
sinceourawarenessofthespacearoundourbodiesisnothing MicroMeditations
itselfbutaspatialfieldofawareness?
4.Awarenessisnotthepropertyofalocalisedsubject,self,egoor
IHowcanitbe,sincealllocalisedsubjectsofawarenessonly THENEWYOGAOFAWARENESS
know themselves as centres of a nonlocal space or field of
awareness?
5.Awarenessisnotablanksheetonwhichwereceiveimpressionsof OURSPACIOUSBODYOFAWARENESS
anexternalsensoryworld.Howcanitbe,sinceawarenesshasits PowerPointPresentation
own innate sensual qualities such as the sensed light and
darkness,levityandgravity,colourandtoneofourmoods,orthe
senseddensityordiffuseness,clarityordullnessofoureveryday Buy'TheAwarenessPrinciple'byPeter
consciousness? Wilberg
6.Awarenessisimmaterial,butitisnothingshapeless,disembodied
orinsubstantial.Howcanitbe,sinceourownbodyisnothingbut
thesensedbodilyshapeandsubstantialityofourawareness?
7.Awarenessisnotaproductofenergeticpatternsormaterialforms,
of genetic or molecular patterns or biological forms. How can it
be, since pattern and form are themselves nothing material or
energetic? You can no more pick up or hold the pattern of a
molecule,cellorbiologicalformthanyoucanpickuporholdthe
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pattern of a geometric form, the roundness of a circle or the
squarenessofasquare.
8.Awarenessisnotapatternorform,butitformsorcrystallisesitself
intopatterns,justasitalsoflowsindraughtsandcurrentslikeair
and water, mixes and merges in streams, radiates and ripples in
andoutlikewavesofenergy,diffusesanddensifieslikematter.
9. Awareness does not require any energetic, material or aetheric
medium in which to take form or flow, radiate or ripple in waves,
moveorcommunicate.Awarenessistheaether.
10.Awarenessdoes not require physical time or space or motion as PeterWilberg BOOKSBY
its medium. How can it, since our very awareness of physical PETER
motion in space and time is preceded by motions of awareness, WILBERG
occurring in times and spaces of our awareness? The Olympic
diver preparing to dive does not first move his body and
thenbecome aware of this physical movement. On the contrary,
the precise physical movement of his body in space and time is
theexpressionofapreciselyrehearsedinnermotionofhisbodily
awarenessassuch.
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11. Awarenessis not simply awareness of some localised object or PeterWilberg's
thingthat is already present out there or in ourselves thus homepage
enablingustofocusonitandreflectonitinthought.How can it
be,sinceallthingsandallthoughtsallphenomenawhatsoever
that we experience only come to presence within nonlocal
spacesorfieldsofawareness?
12. Awarenessis not bound by our experience of phenomena
whether things or thoughts, percepts or concepts, sensations or
emotions, drives or impulses. How can it be, since just as our
awareness of an experienced object is notthat object, neither is
our awareness of experiencing any phenomenon the same thing
asthatexperiencedphenomenon?
13.Awarenessisnotarelationofalocalisedsubjecttoalocalisedobject.
Howcanitbe,sincealllocalisedsubjectsorobjectsofawarenessonly
arise within nonlocal fields of awareness? Objects are the outward
form taken by innate fieldpatterns and fieldqualities of awareness or
subjectivity. Awareness is itself a subjective field and fieldpattern of
awareness.Objects are but a medium of intersubjectivity the
perception of oneconsciousness or subjectivity one fieldpattern of
awareness within the perceptual environment or patterned field of
awarenessofanother.
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maybegoingtoameditationclassofsomesortordoingsomeform
of purely physical yoga. Whether or not they do so however,
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busy or stressful lives. This is a paradox, for the true meaning of
meditation does not lie in adding to the list of things we need to
maketimetodo.Indeed,thetruemeaningofmeditationdoesnotlie ESSAYSONTHEAWARENESS
in making time to do anything at all, nor even making time just to PRINCIPLEBYPETERWILBERG
beinsomeambiguousway.Insteadthemeaningofmeditationlies Home
in making time to be aware. Not at some future time but here and
now,andineverymomentofourlives. FromFocaltoFieldAwareness
TakingTimetoBeAware
There is what is going on right now whatever it is you are
doing, thinking, feeling, saying etc. And there is the awareness of ThePracticeofAwareness
what is going on the awareness of whatever it is you are doing, WhoorWhatistheExperiencingSelf?
thinking,feeling,sayingetc.Thisawarenessembracesnotjustwhat
is happening in the here and now but its larger where and larger WelcometotheWorldofAwareness
whentheoverallsituationandlargerlifecontextwithinwhichitis
goingon,goeson,andoutofwhichitisemerging.Ultimatelyitisan
awarenessthatembracesallofspaceandtime. TheAwaresssPrincipleversusAccepted
Presuppositions
We say that some people are more sensitive or aware than FirstPrinciplesof'TheAwareness
others.Whatwemeanisthattheyaregenerallyawareofmorethan Principle'
othersaremoreaspectsofwhatisgoingon,whetherinthemselves
orinothers,intheworldatlargeorinthehereandnow.Thosewith TheAwarenessPrincipleassole'Theory
ofEverything'
lesserawarenessmayhaveaneedtoexpressthemselvesmorefor
example through therapy merely to discover just how much more Awarenessasthenew1stPrincipleof
there is for them to be aware of. Those with greater awareness Science
however, may have a no lesser need to express themselves
needing to share all that they may be aware of with others in order Principle
not to feel overwhelmed or isolated by that awareness. Both
communicationandcreativitythemselvesareseenaswaysofgiving 'Awareness','Consciousness'andthe
outthroughselfexpression,ratherthanasoccasionsforfullytaking 'Unconscious'
othersin,whetherthroughthewordorinreceptivesilence. Awareness,Spaceand'Spirituality'
As a result, peoples social interaction consists simply of talk Awarenessand'Psychology'

andtellingstorieseveryonesharinginwords,eachforthemselves, Awarenessor'Energy'?
whatismostimportanttothem,whilsttheirprivatelifeiseithermute,
uncreative and expressionless or else an ongoing search for some TheUltimateMetaphysicsofAwareness
formofhighlypersonalselfexpression.Thefactishowever,thatwe
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donotneedtoshareallofwhichweareaware,forawarenessitself
communicates and transmits itself silently, wordlessly, needing no Summary
formofoutwardexpression.
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Whethertheirawarenessisgreaterorlesser,mostpeoplehavea
tendency to identify it with whatever it is they are aware of. Not
understandingthetruenatureofawarenesstheytakeitastheirown COUNSELLING,MEDITATIONAND
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as the private property of their ego or I. This is reflected in
commonwaysofspeaking.Ifforexample,weareawareofathought AWARENESSBASEDCOGNITIVE
orfeelingwhatwethinktoourselvesorsaytoothersisIthinkthis THERAPY(ABCT)
orIfeelthat.Indoingsoweidentify(Identify)withwhateveritis
we are aware of. Meditation demands that we overcome the Therapy(MBCT)
misconception that awareness as such what is called
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misconception that awareness as such what is called pure
awarenessissomethingthatisours,thatisyoursormineand AWARENESSANDSOMATICILLNESS
thusthepersonalpropertyofouregoorI. TheBodyasaLanguageofAwareness
To enter a true state of meditative awareness however to

meditate is the opposite of Identifying with any thing or things FURTHERESSAYSANDBOOKSBY
weareawareof. PETERWILBERG

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To meditate is to give ourselves time to identify with the pure AWARENESS
awareness of what is going on and not with any element or
aspectofit. BasicMeditationalAwarenessPractices
Thatiswhythetrulyawarepersonontheotherhand,doesnot BodilyandSpatialAwareness
think I think this or I feel that, I recall this or I would like that. MeditatingAwarenessasSpace
Instead,wereitputintowords,theirexperienceofawarenesswould ExpandingSpatialAwareness
notbeginwiththewordIbutwiththewordsThereis...Theywould 10StepsFromBeingAwaretoBeing
notthinktothemselvesIthinkthisorIfeelthatbutratherThereis Awareness
anawarenessinmeofthisthoughtorThereisanawarenessinme IntroducingotherstoTheAwareness
of this feeling. Thus they would not think I feel tired or I feel PrincipleanditsBasicPractices
MicroMeditations
anxious but rather There is an awareness of tiredness in me or
Thereisanawarenessofanxietyinme.Thisisimportant,because
the foundation of all meditation is the understanding that the
awareness of a thought or feeling, mood or emotion, impulse or
activity, need or desire, is not itself a thought or feeling, mood or
emotion, impulse or activity, need or desire, but is instead
somethinginnatelyfreeofalltheseelementsofourexperiencing.For PowerPointPresentation
justasourawarenessofathingsuchasatableisnotitselfathing,
not itself a table, so is our awareness of a thought not itself a
thought. Instead it is something innately thought free. Thus we do Buy'TheAwarenessPrinciple'byPeter
notneedtoeffortfullyempty,clearorfreeourmindofthoughtsin Wilberg
order to reach a state of pure thoughtfree awareness. On the
contrary, all we need do is identify with the pure awareness of our
thoughts.Thesameappliestoallelementsofourexperience,allso
called contents of consciousness. We do not need to empty our
consciousness of these contents in order to achieve a state of
awareness free of attachment to them. For the simple awareness of
those contents is itself an awareness free from and unattached to
them.
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Meditation then, is based on the recognition that awareness as
suchpureawarenessisnotboundorrestrictedtoanyparticular
thingorthingsweareawareofwhetherintheformofthoughtsor
feelings, impulses or sensations, needs or desires, memories or
anticipations. Instead, it is like space for though space is
inseparablefromtheobjectsinit,italsoremainsabsolutelydistinct

fromthem,andisnotitselfanything.Pureawareness,quitesimply,
is a clear and empty space of awareness for whilst it embraces
everything we experience, it remains absolutely distinct from each
and every element of our experience, each and every thing we are PETER
awareof. WILBERG
To not get lost, stressed, drained, depressed or fatigued by

whatever is going on whatever we might be doing or saying,
thinking or feeling demands only that we stop identifying with the
immediate focus of our awareness and identify instead with the
largerspaceorfieldofawarenessaroundit.Whatweordinarilycall
consciousnessisatypeofhighlyfocusedorfocalawareness.True Clicktogoto
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consciousness. As long as people are identified with the immediate
focusoftheirawarenesswhetherexternalorinternal,theyremainas
if encapsulated in a bubble from which no amount of social
interaction and communication will free them for all this allows
themisthereliefofselfexpressionofwhateveritistheyareawareof
from within their respective bubbles. Paradoxically, freedom from
such encapsulation in ourselves and in what we think of as our
awareness can be attained only by granting more awareness to our
most fleshly capsule our skin using it to sense the larger space
aroundourheadsandbodies.Forthatlargerspaceisinessencebut
a larger field or space of awareness. It is by identifying with this
larger space that we identify with the pure awareness of all that is
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larger space that we identify with the pure awareness of all that is
going on whether within or between our own bubbles of
awarenessandthoseofothers.
Expanding our awareness of space then, is the key to

experiencing awareness itself as an expansive, allembracing and
transcendentspaceembracingandtranscendingnotjustourown
body but that of every thing and person within it. By sensing and
identifying with an expanded awareness of space, we cease to
experience awareness as something encapsulated in our minds or
brainsorboundedbyourownskin.
Totrulybeaware istoliterally beinawarenesstoexperience

ourselves abiding or dwelling within a spacious field of pure
awareness in the same way as our bodies abide and dwell within
space.Thatspaciousexpanseofthepureawarenessinwhichweall
dwell is not ours, not yours nor mine, and yet it is the very
essenceofthedivine.ForasitiswrittenintheBhagavadGita:
AsthemightyAirthatpervadeseverythingeverabidesin
Space,knowthatinthesamewayallBeingsabideinMe.
Weallseekbreathingspaceinourbusylives.Tomeditateisto
identifywiththepureawareness of all that is going on. This means
sensingandidentifyingwiththelargerfieldorspacewithinwhichit
goeson.Inthiswaywebegintofeelmorebreathingspacenotby
breathing fresh air or by doing exercises in breath control but by
literallybreathingintheveryairnessofpureawarenessitselfthat
higher air or aether which pervades all things, yet abides in the
seemingemptinessofthespacearoundthem.
To begin with however, all we need do to meditate is to give

ourselves time to grant full awareness to our bodies allowing
ourselvestobeasfullyawareaspossibleofanyelementsofanxiety,
stress,tension,restlessnessordisease,howeversubtleorintense,
thatwesensewithinthem.Bygivingawarenesstoourbodiesinthis
way, we can, at the same time, give time to become more aware of
thingsgoingoninourlivesthatmaybeonourmindorthatcome
to mind as conscious mental thoughts or concerns directly related
towhatwearefeelinginourbodies.Thelongerwedothis,themore
time we give ourselves to be aware first of all of our bodies as a
wholeandthenofallthatpreoccupiesourmindsthemorewewill
sense a gap opening up between our bodymind and the everyday
self it constitutes and the very awareness we are granting it. In this
way we begin to feel a gap between our everyday self and identity
andanotherdeepselfthatSelfwhichisgrantingawarenesstoour
everyday self and lives, that Self, which, in its essence is the
awarenesswearegranting.
When we begin to sense that second, deeper Self we take the

secondmajorstepinmeditation.Ifthefirststepisgivingourselves
timetobeaware,thesecondispassingfrombeingawaretobeing
awareness. This means ceasing to identify with anything we are
aware of in our bodies and minds, but identifying instead with that
veryawarenesswearegivingourselves,andwiththeSelfthatisthat
awareness,ourawarenessself(theAtman).
FeelingthatSelfimmanentlyfromdeepdowninsideorwithin
our bodies we can then begin to feel it transcendentally. This is
the third stage of meditation. We reach it by giving awareness not
just to all that is going on inside us in the inner spaces of our
bodiesandwithinourmindsbutalsotoourskinsurface,usingitto
sense more intensely the clear empty space surrounding our heads
andbodies.Asweexpandourawarenessintothatspacewebeginto
feelitasaninfinitespaceofawarenessofwhichnotjustourbody
but all bodies are but different shapes or expressions. All that we
were previously more intensely aware of as going on in our body
were previously more intensely aware of as going on in our body
and mind indeed in our everyday life in its entirety we now
experience as nothing more than shallow ripples and reflections on
thesurfaceofafathomless,undergroundoceanofawareness.Atthe
sametime,wefeelthedeeperSelfwithinusasonecentreofavast,
vaultingtimespaceofawarenessonethatspansourentirelifetime.
It is as and from this Self that we can give ourselves time to

meditateatanytime,simplybygivingmoreawarenesstoallthatis
goingonwithinusorpreoccupyingourbodiesandmindswhilstat
the same time breathing the pure air or aether of that clear,
contentlessawarenesswhichsurroundsusasspaceitself,andthat
spansalloftime.
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contents. By learning to distinguish awareness from all contents of Home
consciousnesswhethermental,emotional,perceptualorsomatic
wearefreedfromidentificationwiththesecontents.TheAwareness
TakingTimetoBeAware
Principle is therefore a liberatory life principle of a sort long
recognisedinyogicphilosophyonethatoffersanewfoundationfor ThePracticeofAwareness
healingbothmentalandbodilydisease.TheAwarenessPrincipleis WhoorWhatistheExperiencingSelf?
alsoanewfoundationalprincipleforboththescienceandtheology
a true 'Theory of Everything'. For the most fundamental scientific
factofallisnotthe'objective'existenceofauniverseofbodiesin MeditationasaPracticeofAwareness
space and time but an awareness of that universe. That awareness TheAwaresssPrincipleversusAccepted
howeverconsciousnessassuchcannomorebeexplainedbyor Presuppositions
reducedtoanythingweareconsciousorawareofwhethermatter, FirstPrinciplesof'TheAwareness
Principle'
energyorthegreymatterofourbrainsthancandreamingassuch
be explained by something we happen to dream of. Instead TheAwarenessPrincipleassole'Theory
ofEverything'
awarenessisinprinciplethefirstprincipleofallthatisorexists.
Yetsinceawarenessisnotaconsciousnessthatisyoursormine Awarenessasthenew1stPrincipleof
Science
the private property of persons or a product of their brains
awarenesscanalsobeunderstoodastheveryessenceoftheDivine. FurtherAxiomsofTheAwareness
Principle
Instead of arguing about the existence of God as some sort of
Supreme Being that merely has consciousness, The Awareness 'Unconscious'
Principle allows us to recognise that God IS consciousness
consciousness as such or 'awareness' and that all things, all
beings and all worlds are but individualised portions and Awarenessand'Psychology'
expressionsofthatSingularandSupremeAwarenesswhichISGod. Awarenessor'Energy'?
QuestionsandAnswers
The Awareness Principle refines, reinterprets and clarifies
understandings of the ultimate nature of reality stemming from Summary
traditional Indian religious philosophies and yogic practices in Summary2
particular the tradition of Indian philosophy known as Kashmir
Shaivism.Itarosebyreaddressingthebigquestionsfromandout
ofwhichthisandotherspiritualtraditionsandteachingsofthepast COUNSELLING,MEDITATIONAND
YOGA
arose. In this way The Awareness Principle constitutes an original
spiritual teaching in its own right offering new answers to big AWARENESSBASEDCOGNITIVE
THERAPY(ABCT)
questions,andyetdoinginawayfreeorattachmentorconfinement
tothespecificcultures,religions,languagesandsymbolsofallpast AwarenessorMindfulnessBased
Therapy(MBCT)
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spiritualtraditionsandteachings.

Themostbasicquestionsofall:
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Question:Howdoyouknowthatanythingatallexistsoris?
Answer:Onlythroughanawarenessofit. FURTHERPRACTICESOF
AWARENESS

Question:Howdoyouevenknowthatyouexistorare? Meditation,Movementand'JustSitting'
Answer:Onlythroughanawarenessofbeing. BodilyandSpatialAwareness
Question: If this is so, how can that awareness be regarded as AspectsofthePracticeofAwareness
yours,orasthepropertyofanyperson,beingorthingthatweonly 10StepsFromBeingAwaretoBeing
Awareness
knowofthroughthatveryawareness?teachings. IntroducingotherstoTheAwareness
MicroMeditations
Answer: It cannot. The Awareness Principle is the principle that
awarenesscannotinprinciple be explained by or reduced to the
property or product of anything of which IT is aware any self or THENEWYOGAOFAWARENESS
person,bodyorbeingevenaSupremeBeingor'Being'assuch.On
thecontrary,everybeingisanindividualisedportion,expressionand OURSPACIOUSBODYOFAWARENESS
embodiment of a beginningless and boundless Awareness a PowerPointPresentation
UniversalAwarenessFieldthatisbeyondexplanation.
Note:Since we only have direct evidence of the existence of things Wilberg
though subjective awareness, it follows that awareness or
subjectivity is more primordial than being or existence. The first
principleofTheAwarenessPrincipleisthereforethatawarenessas
such is the 1st principle of the universe the basis of all that is or
exists.

Q. If we only know things through an awareness of them do they LookInside
continuetoexistwhenwearenotawareofthem?
A. Yes. This question carries with it the traditional Western
assumption that awareness is something that we possess as our
private property. In reality each individuals awareness is an
individualisedportionandexpressionofauniversalawareness.This

universalawarenessdoesnotceasetobeawareofanythingwhether
ornotweareawareofitforeventhemostseeminglyinsentientor
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ofit. PETER
WILBERG
Q. Does that mean there is no such thing as an unaware or

insentientthing?
A.Yes.Thereisnosuchthingthatismerelyaninsentientobjectof
consciousness.Insteadeverythingisadistinctawarenessinitself,
though the awareness that constitutes that being may be more or Clicktogoto
PeterWilberg's
less differentiated, and refined. Thus the portion of the universal homepage
awarenessthatmanifestsasamoleculeormineralformisbothmore
primordial and less differentiated than that of a vegetable, animal,
humanortranshumanbeing.
Q.Areyousayingthatthethingsweperceiveasobjectsaresentient
beingswhicharejustasmuchawareofusasweareofthem?
A.Yes,thoughtheydonotperceiveusandotherthingsinthesame
waythatwedo.
Thus what we perceive as a stone, tree, spider, cat, jellyfish,

sharketc.maynotcorrespondinanywaytothewayinwhichthey
perceive each other or human beings. What the human being
perceives as a cat or any nameable object is a product of our
specificallyhumanmodeofperceptualawareness.Inrealitythereis
nosuchthingasatreeorcatonlyourspecificallyhumanwayof
perceiving the type or species of awareness that constitutes any
otherbeing.
Q.Sotherearesuchthingsasexistingbeingsindependentofour
awareness?
A. Yes, so long as we understand that (1) a being is essentially
nothing but a specific shape or pattern of awareness, and (2) that
whilst beings exist independent of our awareness they are each
shapestakenbyauniversalawareness.
Q.Whatisbodyawareness?
A. Not an awareness produced by or belonging to the body but an
awarenessofthebody.
Q.Whatisselfawareness?
A.Notanawarenessbelongingtotheselfbutanawarenessofself.
Any and every self is ultimately but the selfexpression and self
recognitionoftheuniversalawarenesswecallGod.
Note: since our very knowledge that our self and our body are or
exist depends on an awareness of being and an awareness of body
andself,itfollowsthatthatawareness cannot itself be theproperty
ofanyselfortheproductofanybodyorbodypart,suchasthebrain.
The 2nd principle of The Awareness Principle is that awareness
cannotinprinciplebereducedtothepropertyorproductofany
being,bodyorselfthereisanawarenessof.
Q.WhatisGodandinwhatwaydoesGodexist?
A. God is not some existing and supreme being that has or
possesses awareness. God is awareness a universal awareness
thatindividualisesitself,andisthethereforethesourceofallbeings
understoodasindividualisedportionsandexpressionsofit.
Note: Since the existence of any things or being, including a

supreme Godbeing, assumes an awareness of its existence,
follows that awareness itself must be considered as having a more
primordialrealitythananybeingincludingasupremeGodbeing
that we are aware of. Thus it is that awareness alone a universal
awarenessandnotanaawarenessthatismerelyyoursormine
canbeconsideredastheveryessenceofthedivineofGod.
Q.Whatisawarenessitself?
A. A broader and more spacious consciousness field or field
consciousnessultimatelyauniversalconsciousnessfieldofwhich
everythingandbeingisanindividualisedportionandexpression.
Q. What is the difference between awareness and what we call

consciousness?
Ordinaryconsciousnessisnotfieldconsciousnessbutapurelyfocal
consciousnessattachedtowhateveritiswehappentobecurrently
experiencing or aware of. As a field consciousness however,
awareness on the other hand, embraces every possible element or

focus of our conscious experience whilst at the same time
remainingabsolutelydistinctfromthem.
Q.Whatisthevalueofawareness?
A.Awarenessisfreedomforbeingdistinctfromallthatwedo,say
andexperienceitfreesusfromidentificationwithanyelementofour
experience mental, physical or emotional, and therefore at the
sametimeallowsustofreelychoosethefocus
Note: The pure awareness of a thing or thought, sensation or

emotion,impulseoractionisnotitselfathingorthought,sensation
oremotion,impulseoraction.Hencebysimplyrecognisingthatthe
awareness of a troubling thought or emotion, for example, is not
itselfathoughtoremotion,itceasestobetroublesome.Forjustas
empty space is distinct from every possible object in it, so its pure
awareness distinct from all its possible contents from everything
we are or could be aware of. Awareness, like space, both embraces
and transcends everything experienced within it. Indeed it is by
sensing and identifying with the emptiness of the space around
thingsandaroundourbodiesthatwecancometoexperiencespace
itselfasaspaceorfieldofpureawareness.Doingsoenablesusto
fullyfeel,affirmallthatweexperiencewithinthatfieldwhilstatthe
same time remaining absolutely free from attachment to each and
everyelementofthatexperience.
Q.Whatcanexplaintheexistenceofawarenessitself?
A.Nothing(nothing)canexplaintheexistenceofawareness,since
anythingorbeingwemightthinkofasacauseorexplanationfor
italreadyassumesanawarenessofthatthingorbeing.
Q.Howdoeseverythingweexperiencecometobeorexistinthefirst
place?
A. As creative expressions or manifestations of potentialities latent
withintheuniversalawarenessinthesamewaythataworkofartis
not something caused but an expression or manifestation of
potentialities latent in the artists soul. What defines the artist as a
being is that soul which consists of nothing but a set of unique
qualitiesandpotentialitiesofawareness.
Note 1 This viewpoint differs from the idea that the universe was
created by a supreme being. This view doesnt explain how that
very Godbeing itself came to be. And if we believe that God is a
beingseparateandapartfromtheuniverseitcreated,weeffectively
turnGodintojustonebeingorentityamongothersintheuniverse.
Note2The Awareness Principle also differs from the scientific view

that the universe and with it time and space themslves began
withaBigBang.Sincetheveryideaoftimeandspacebeginning
atsomepointintimeorspaceisillogicalinprinciple,itiscertainly
notprovablebyexperiment.
Note3Therearethreebasicmodelsofhowthingscametobe:
1.ThestandardCreationistmodel,whichassumestheexistenceof
theCreatorBeingbutdoesnotexplainhowthisBeingitselfcameto
be.
2.TheBigBangmodel,whichillogicallytalksabouttimeasifitcould
besomethingthatitselfbeganintimeandoffersnoexplanationof
howtheBigBangitselfcametobe.
3. The Creative Expressionist model. This understands all actual

things as creative expressions of potential shapes and qualities of
awareness. This model does not assume the existence of a Creator
Being or of any being for it understands beings themselves as
expressionsofpotentialshapesandqualitiesofawareness.
Q.Howexactlydoesawarenessgiveexpressiontoallthatexists?
A. The problem with this question therefore, is that the scientific
worldview is so ingrained in people that they can only conceive of
this'how'exceptintermsofsomesortofcausalexplanation.Onthe
other hand, they do not think of asking themselves, for example,
exactly'how'theirawarenessofsomethingexpressesitselfinwords,
thoughtandspeech.TheAwarenessPrincipleoffersanexpressionist
model of creation of a sort quite different, in principle, to causal
models.Forexpressionasinspeechissomethingweexperience
directly.Theneedto'explain'thehowofexpressionthroughsome
hidden causal mechanism that we don't experience is a product of
scientificbrainwashing.
Q.What,ultimately,isreality?
A.Mostpeopleidentifyrealitysolelywithanawarenessofactuality
withthingsthatareactuallypresentorexistent.Yetthedimension
ofpotentialityisnolessrealthantherealmoftheactualindeeditis
outofanawarenessofthecountlesseverchangingpotentialslatent
in each moment that all real life actions and actualities emerge.
Reality then does not consist ultimately of one realm only, but of
threerealmsofawarenessawarenessofthingsactualandpresent,
awarenessofpotentialshapesandformsofawareness(beings,and
a third realm which belongs to the essence of life itself. This is the
realm of becoming the very process of actualisation or
presencing by which potentialities and possibilities latent in
awarenessbecomeactualorpresentbywhichtheycometobeor
become.Awarenessaloneandassuchisultimaterealitythethree
primary realms or dimensions of actuality or being, potentiality or
nonbeing,andactualisationorbecomingbeingalldimensionsof
thatultimaterealityofawarenessassuch.
Q.Whatislife?
A.Lifeisaninnatedrivetowardsactualityorbeinglatentwithinall
potentialities, and propelling them towards ever greater and fuller
selfactualisationnotinthesenseofactualisingsomeactualand
already existing self or being, but in the sense of allowing
potentialitiesofawarenesstomanifestandtakeshapeascountless
differentbeingsorselves.Inanutshellthen,lifeisaninnatedrive,
willandpowertobethatexpressesitselfinallthatis.
Q.Whatisthemeaningoflife?
A.Lifeisexpression.Assuch,ithastheessentialcharacterofbeing
a type of speech. That means it is innately meaningful. The
meaning of life lies in the fact that every thing in our lives has an
expressivemeaningthataddressesusinthesamewaythatspeech
addressed to us does calling for awareness and calling upon us

alsotorespond.
Note: We can discover the meaning of life only by being aware of

how not just every word, but also every thing, person, situation,
event and interaction in our lives even the most seemingly
insignificant or minor already addresses and touches us in a
meaningful way. This in turn allows us to come to an awareness of
thatmeaningnotjustthemeaningitholdsforuspersonallybutits
meaning for others, and also as an expression of universal truths.
Yet we cannot find the meaning of life without also living life. That
meansacceptingtheunconditionaldemandthatlifeplacesonusall
a demand not just to be aware of meaning in our lives but to
respondtoittorespondtoeverythingandeveryonethataddresses
us in our lives, whether directly or indirectly. To do so requires the
cultivation of a higher type of responseability one that can only
come from recognising both ourselves and every other being as a
unique and therefore uniquely meaningful expression of the divine
universal awareness we call God, with all its infinite creative
potentialitiesofexpression.Weareunconditionallycalledupontobe
aware of all that addresses us and to creatively and expressively
respond to it precisely in order to give expression to those
potentialities and thus to live and be. Yet since we can, at any
time and in any situation, choose whether and to what degree we
allow events and people and questions themselves to address and
touch us, and since we can also choose whether and with what
degree of awareness and commitment we resolve to respond to
them, the ultimate question that life and all that is poses to us is,
ultimately, a single ethical question rather than a philosophical
question alone. This single ethical question is whether or not we
choosetorecogniseandrespondtoallthemanyquestionsthatlife
and other beings constantly raise in us or leave us with. For it is
through this choice that we decide whether to be or not to be, to
liveornottoliveanddeterminealsothedegreeofmeaninginour
lives.
Q.Whatisdeath?
A. We have more than one life in which to face and answer this
ultimatequestionoflife,andtherearemoreworldsthanoneinwhich
we face it. Just as birth is a form of expression, so is death our
rebirth into the multidimensional universe or multiverse of
awareness,onenotrestrictedtothedimensionsandexpressionsof
awarenessweperceiveasmatter,energy,spaceandtime.
Q.Whatistheuniverseultimatelymadeof?
A.Wearesuchstuffasdreamsaremadeon.(Shakespeare)Asour
dream images and sensations give expression to felt shapes,
patterns,colours,tonesandtexturesofawareness,sodoallthings.
Theuniverseismadeupofelementalqualitiesofawarenesswhat
weperceiveaslight,forexample,beingamanifestationofthelightof
awareness.
Somecounterquestionsandanswers:
Q.Howcantherebesuchathingasawarenesswithoutthingstobe
aware of? Doesnt this question allow us to argue with the same
forcethattheexistenceofthosethingscomesfirstoratleastisas
fundamental as awareness of them? Furthermore, by implying that
awarenessitselfisorexistsdoesitnotfollowthattheprincipleof
Being or Existence is more fundamental than The Awareness
Principle?
A.Whilstawarenessisindeedinseparablefromthingsweareaware
ofitisalsoabsolutelydistinctfromthem(inthesamewaythatspace
is both inseparable and yet also distinct from everything in it). In
addition however, awareness embraces not just things that actually
are or exist the realm of Being or Existence but also everything
thatisnotbutcouldbe,theentirerealmofpotentialbeingorreality
as well as actual being or existence. Since the very being of
awarenessisofasortthatembracesandpartakesoftheentirerealm
or reality of potentiality or nonbeing it is a more encompassing
principlethanTheBeingPrinciple.
Q.Howdidawarenessitselfbeginorcometobe?
A. Time, like space is a dimension of awareness. To think of
awarenessashavingabeginningorendmakesnomoresensethan
to think of space as having a location in space, or time as such
havingabeginningorendintime.Awareness,liketime,isnotitself
anything temporal having a beginning or end but instead is
essentially timeless or timetranscendent the true meaning of
eternal.
Q.Isntthereasimpleranswertohowweknowthatanythingexists
because our brains give us a picture of things through information
pickedupfromoursenses?
A. If everything we perceive consists of pictures produced by the
brain,howcanthesensespickupinformationfromtheminthefirst
place?Theideathatourbrainproducespicturesofthingsfromour
sense organs is as illogical as saying that a camera produces
photographs through the lightreflectedoffthingsandthensaying
thatthosethingsareactuallynothingbutphotographsproducedby
the camera! Then again, since both our sense organs and the brain
itself are something we only know about through our perception of
them, how can they be used to explain perception as such? Sense
perception is itself a specific mode of awareness a patterned
awareness of sensory qualities such as colour, sound, shape,
warmth,textureetc.Thatdoesnotmeanthatperceptionisaproperty
or product of our brains and sense organs or that sense organs
prove to us that things exist out there. For our brains and sense
organs are themselves things we know about only because we can
perceive them. Perception is no more something caused or
explained by things we perceive (including our brains and sense
organs themselves) than can dreaming be caused or explained by
some particular thing we dream of. Seeing, for example, cannot be
explainedbyanythingweseeincludingtheeye.
Note:Brainsciencetriestoreplacesanolderphilosophicalviewthat
everythingweperceiveisallinthemindwithanewbeliefthatits
allinthebrain.Itcanonlydosohowever,byrulingthebrainitself
out of the very picture of reality that it is supposed to create. For
since the brain itself is something we can only know about through
studying our perceptual picture of it or graphic pictures of brain
activity brain science ends up explaining how we perceive
everythingthroughoneparticularthingthatweperceivethebrain
itself as we perceive it, directly or through instruments. Far from

offeringanycrediblescientificexplanationofperceptionthen,brain
scienceeffectivelyimpliesthatrealityisallinthemindconsisting
solely of perceptual pictures of the world created by the brain
whichnecessarilyincludesourpictureofthebrainitself.Incontrast,
TheAwarenessPrinciplerecognisesthatsenseperceptionisitselfa
mode of awareness, and that our perceptual world cannot in
principle be caused or explained by anything that we perceive or
are aware of in that world including the brain. On the contrary,
everything we perceive including our sense organs is a shape
taken by awareness one that in turn gives a specific form and
character to the univeral awareness.Inthemostgeneralterms,The
AwarenessPrinciplestatesthatawarenessiseverythingandthatin
turn everything is an awareness a specific shape or pattern of
awareness.
Q. Doesnt physics tell us that behind all that we perceive with our
senses are electromagnetic energies, and that it is from these our
braincreatesimagesofthings?
A. Yes, but remember that our sensory awareness gives us no
evidence whatsoever of the existence of these energies, which are
notthingsinthemselvesbutabstractconceptsusedbyphysicsto
explain things. And since all the concepts of physics refer to
mathematical quantities they cannot in principle explain our
subjective awareness of any sensory qualities at all for example
our awareness of qualities of colour or sound, taste or texture, or
even such basic sensory qualities such as light and darkness or
warmth and coolness. Sensory qualities that we take for granted as
real through the evidence of our senses colour for example
actually have no place in what physics conceives as objective
reality. That is because no evidence for their existence can ever be
found except as qualities of subjective experiencing. The quantities
thatphysicsdealwitharelikesumsofmoneyonabankbalance.We
canusethemtobuytangiblethingsorordertheirproduction,butas
mere numbers they cannot directly cause or create their sensory
reality.
Q. If we dont perceive through our sense organs why do we have

thematall?
A.Wedonotseeorhearbecausewehaveeyesandearsandother
sense organs. We have eyes, ears and other sense organs because
we are seeing, hearing and perceiving beings. Our brain and bodily
senseorgansarebuttheoutwardperceivedformorembodimentof
thedifferentmodesandpatternsofperceptualawarenessthatdefine
usashumanbeings.Theuniversalawarenessisanartist.Justasa
greatportraitcanshowustheuniquequalitiesofawarenessorsoul
revealedthroughapersonsfaceandeyes,soisthehumanbodyas
suchandallitsorgansafleshlyportraitofthehumansoulgiving
expression to the complex and sophisticated pattern of awareness
thatdefineusasaspeciesofconsciousness.Wedonotsense,think,
feel, speak or perceive like human beings because we have brains.
Instead the human brain and nervous system is a marvellous
embodiment of the sophistication of human awareness, whether in
theformofthought,feeling,speechorperception.
Q. Since what we see around us are things we can not only see or
hearbuttouch,pickupanduseindifferentways,doesntthistellus
theyarerealmaterialobjectsandnotimagesinthemindorbrain
letalonemeresensoryshapesandformsofawareness?
A. All we know is that there are certain things which (unlike mental
images or hallucinations) we can not only actually perceive (for
examplebyseeingthem)butalsopotentiallyperceiveinotherways
forexamplebytouchingortastingthem.Itissuchthingsweregard
as material things. Yet that does not mean that matter as such is
anyactualsubstanceorthing.Insteadwhatwethinkorconceiveof
as material and not merely mental is anything there is an
awareness of being able to perceive in more ways than one. A
material thing is any actually perceived thing that can also
potentially be perceived through other sensory modes. Matter is
that awareness of potential modes of perception referred to in the
questionitself:forexampletheawarenessthatsomethingweseeor
hearcanalsopotentiallybetouchedandfelt.
2comments:
Anonymous November11,2013at7:03AM
Is Pure Awareness more accurately defined as amoral, or does Pure Aware embody
moralqualitiesandserveasanobjectivebasisformoraltruth?
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PeterWilberg November12,2013at6:11AM
Aninterestingquestion.Thoughalmostimpossiblydifficulttoanswerinbrief
allow me to offer this initial response. To begin with of course, Pure
Awareness, as absolute subjectivity neither has objects nor is an object in
itself. Thus it is also not the objective basis of anything but rather the
subjectivebasisofeverything.
Whilsteverythingthatexistsoriseverybeingisashapetakenbypure
awareness, pure awareness as such is not itself a being let alone a human
being and in this sense transcends all human concepts of good and evil,
moralityandethics.InthissenseitcouldbesaidtobetransmoralatermI
prefer to amoral, given that pure awareness is also the source and soul of
allbeings.
Yet precisely by virtue of this it could, in human terms, be said to have an

innatelymoralcharactertoobeingthatwhichnotonlyfirstallowsallbeing
to be, but also constantly values and nurtures all their potentials none of
whichareinnatelybad,evilorimmoral.
Inthissensetoo,pureawarenesscouldalsobesaidtobetheultimatesource
of what human beings consider moral good given that no beings are in
any innately evil in their values, intents or potentials. It is only the
(temporarily) blocked or distorted human expression or enactment of
particular values through moral concepts and belief systems, in particularly
those based on a moral dualism of good versus evil that, paradoxically,
actually gives rise to what human beings morally perceive or experience as
evil. Paradoxically also, evil is thus only transcended and overcome by
overcomingmoraldualismsandwiththemtheverybeliefinevil.
Tosumup:moralityandmoralbeliefsystemsare,justlikewhatisseenor
experiencedasevilmerelydistortedhumanattemptstobringtofulfilment
what are all again, in purely human terms innately good values, intents
andpotentialstoexpression.
The distortion of value fulfilment through moral dualisms and beliefs

systemsis,fromthispointofview,merelyanecessarylearningprocessand
experienceforhumanbeing.Forwhenwerecognisetheinnategoodness,or
betterputtheinnatevalueofallthingandbeingstheywillcometovalue
and cherish them more. Similarly we can come to understand what we call
values as latent qualities and potentialities of awareness all of which are
goodinhumanterms.
The best way of doing so is through identification with pure awareness

which is that which, not only brings to fulfilment but innately values all
beingsandtheirpotentialsofbeing.
Finally, it is important also to bear in mind that morality, immorality and

amorality are all essentially moral value systems (both amorality and
immorality being a relation to the moral and and thus to mores i.e. to
what is valued in particular human cultures by virtue of having become
conventional or customary. And yet all such mores or customary moral
values are also based on a false understanding of what values as such
essentially are, i.e. precisely not customary ways of being or mores but
potentialities of being in the form of particular qualities and dimensions of
awarenessseekingexpressionandembodiment.Thustheverytermsmoral,
immoralandamoralarealsoallmerelymoreorlessdistortedexpressions
ofwhatIcallthetransmoralnatureofpureawarenesswhichisnotasetor
system of codified mores or moral values but the activity of valuing all
thingsandbeingsandwiththemtheirpotentialsofawareness.
Foravividdescriptionofanexperienceofthisinnatelyvaluingandtherefore
also loving, cherishing and nurturing activity of pure awareness I suggest
you read the sections of Jane Roberts book on The Afterlife Journal of an
American Philosopher included in the Archive page of my site on The New
Yoga of Awareness in an essay entitled The Light of Awareness in the
Afterlife.Gotohttp://www.thenewyoga.org/light_of_awareness_James.pdf
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Isnothingelsebutawarenessofbeing.
Andyetawarenessembracesmorethanbeing,
Morethanallbeings,andmorethaneverythingthatIs. FURTHERPRACTICESOF
ForAwarenessincludesawarenessofnonbeingtoo, AWARENESS
Whichisnotavoidofnothingness,butaplenumor BasicMeditationalAwarenessPractices
Fullnessofpotentialitytranscendingevery Meditation,Movementand'JustSitting'
Actualthingorbeing,andyetimmanent PracticingSittingasMeditation
Withinallthingsandbeings. BodilyandSpatialAwareness
Potentialrealities,can AspectsofthePracticeofAwareness
Inprinciple,havereality 10StepsFromBeingAwaretoBeing
Awareness
Onlysubjectivelywithinawareness. IntroducingotherstoTheAwareness
Theycanthereforebenothingelsebut PrincipleanditsBasicPractices
Potentialitiesofawareness,itsownlimitless MicroMeditations
Potentialityfordifferentiationandfor
Individualisationintheformof
Actualthingsandbeings. THENEWYOGAOFAWARENESS

Awareness
Bridgesandspans PowerPointPresentation
Thatmostprimordialabyss
Betweennonbeingandbeing,
Potentialityandactuality, Buy'TheAwarenessPrinciple'byPeter
Outofwhichallbeings, Wilberg
Andallworlds
Arise.

Astheprecondition
Forusbeingawareofany LookInside
Thingoranyuniverseofthings,
Asthepreconditiontoo,foreachandeverytheory
Wemightcreateaboutthethingsweareawareof,
Awarenessthoughnothingis,inprinciple
Thesolepossibleandthesolethinkable
TheoryofEverything.

Awarenessisalsothe
SolepossibleconceptofGod, PeterWilberg BOOKSBY
NotaSupremeBeingwithawareness, PETER
ButthatSupremeAwarenessthat WILBERG
Isthesourceofallbeings.

TherecognitionthatAwarenessis,
Inprinciple,theultimaterealityor1stPrinciple
Underlyingandpervadingallrealities,is
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1.AWARENESSANDEXPERIENCING
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awareness of all you are experiencing and whatever it is you
are doing, thinking, feeling, saying etc. This awareness
embraces not just what is happening in the here and now but
its larger where and larger when the overall situation and ESSAYSONTHEAWARENESS
largerlifecontextwithinwhichitisgoingon,goeson,andout
of which it is emerging. Ultimately this awareness is a divine Home
universalawarenessembracingandpervadingallofspaceand
time. FromFocaltoFieldAwareness
TakingTimetoBeAware
Tomeditateistogiveourselvestimetoidentifywiththepure
AWARENESSofallthatweareexperiencingallthatisgoing
onandnotwithanyelementoraspectofit. WhoorWhatistheExperiencingSelf?

That is why the truly aware person does not think to WelcometotheWorldofAwareness
themselves I think this or I feel that but ratherThere is an MeditationasaPracticeofAwareness
awareness in me of this thought or There is an awareness in
me of this feeling. Thus they would not think I feel glad or I TheAwaresssPrincipleversusAccepted
feel sad but rather There is an awareness of gladness in me Presuppositions
orThereisanawarenessofsadnessinme. FirstPrinciplesof'TheAwareness
Principle'
The first thing a truly aware person does if they feel even the
slightest sense of physical, emotional or mental discomfort or ofEverything'
diseaseistonottoseektodistractthemselvesfromitorgive
itlessawarenessbut,onthecontrarytogiveitmoreawareness Awarenessasthenew1stPrincipleof
fullawarenessfeelingitaspurequalityofbodilysensation. Science
Only in this way can they come to identify with the pure FurtherAxiomsofTheAwareness
awarenessofthediscomfortordiseaseratherthanidentifying Principle
unawareswiththatdiscomfortordisease.
'Unconscious'
2.AWARENESSISINNATELYTHOUGHTFREE Awareness,Spaceand'Spirituality'
We do not need to effortfully empty, clear, free or purify
our minds of thoughts in order to enjoy a meditative space of TheUltimateMetaphysicsofAwareness
purethoughtfreeawareness.
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That is because the awareness of a thought is not itself a Summary

thoughtandthusinnatelythoughtfree.
Summary2

The awareness of a thought or of any thing whether a
sensation or perception, emotion or impulse, need or desire,
impulse or action is not itself a thought or any thing, and YOGA
thereforeinnatelythoughtfreeandthingfree.
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AWARENESSassuch,beingdistinctinprinciplefromeachand
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AWARENESSassuch,beingdistinctinprinciplefromeachand
everyelementofourexperience,eachandeverythingweare AWARENESSANDSOMATICILLNESS
aware of, is innately thought and thingfree. That is why TheBodyasaLanguageofAwareness
AWARENESSisFREEDOM.

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3.EVERYTHINGISANAWARENESS
FURTHERPRACTICESOF
Asensationorperception,needordesire,thoughtorfeelingfor AWARENESS
example,isnotsimplysomethingweareawareOF.Itisitselfan
AWARENESSofsomethingorsomeoneelse. BasicMeditationalAwarenessPractices
Similarly, things in the crude sense are not mere insentient BodilyandSpatialAwareness
objects.Arockortreetoo,isnotjustsomethingweareaware MeditatingAwarenessasSpace
OF.InsteaditISanawarenessinitsownright.Cells,molecules AspectsofthePracticeofAwareness
atomsandparticlesofallshapesandformsareexpressionsof 10StepsFromBeingAwaretoBeing
patterns of cellular, molecular and atomic AWARENESS, each Awareness
withitsownparticlenatureorparticularity. IntroducingotherstoTheAwareness
MicroMeditations
The most selfevident empirical and scientific fact is not the THENEWYOGAOFAWARENESS
objectiveEXISTENCEofthingsbuta(subjective)AWARENESS
of them. The most basic fact of individual life is not our own
existenceorbeingbutanintimateandprimordialAWARENESS OURSPACIOUSBODYOFAWARENESS
ofbeing. PowerPointPresentation
4.'GOD'ISAWARENESS Wilberg
What we call God is not a supreme being with awareness.

Instead God IS awareness an awareness absolute and
unbounded, one that is not the private property of any being
buttheDivinesourceofallbeings.Allthingsandallbeingsare
a part of God unique, individualised portions of the Divine
UniversalAwarenessthatISGod. LookInside
5.AWARENESSHASNOCAUSESOREXPLANATIONS
To seek the cause of consciousness or awareness in the

body or brain is like seeking the cause of a dream and of
dreamingassuch,insomeparticularthingwehappentodream
of. Awareness cannot in principle be explained by or PeterWilberg BOOKSBY
reduced to the property or product of any thing we are aware PETER
WILBERG
of,whetherawakeordreaming.
6.AWARENESSISNOTOURPRIVATEPROPERTY
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Awarenessisnomoreprivatepropertythanspaceortime.Yet homepage
both science and religion are permeated by the unquestioned
assumption that awareness is the PRIVATE PROPERTY of
individual persons or beings human or divine or else the
merePRODUCTofsomethingsuchasthebodyandbrain.
7.AWARENESSAS1STPRINCIPLEOFALLTHATIS

The Awareness Principle is the recognition that AWARENESS

assuch(pureawareness)ISthe1stprincipleoftheuniverse
theultimaterealitybehindandwithinallthings.Thatisbecause
awareness as such cannot IN PRINCIPLE be reduced to or
explained by anything we are aware OF. For awareness AS
SUCH is the precondition or field condition for our
consciousnessOFanythingatall.
8.SPACE&TIME

What we are aware of as space is but a spacious field OF

AWARENESS one unrestricted and unbound by anything we
areawareofwithinit.
SPACE IS COPRESENCE OF PHENOMENA IN A FIELD OF

AWARENESS.
TIMEISTHEPRESENCINGOFPHENOMENAINTHEFIELDOF
AWARENESSWECALLSPACE.
Time is the nonextensional SPACE of awareness, more or

lesscontracted,pressuredandstressed,thatwefeelwithinthe
Moment.
Space is the extensional TIME we give ourselves to open up
and expand the freedom and spaciousness of the awareness
wefeelintheMoment.
Only by giving ourselves TIME TO BE AWARE can we expand

theTIMESPACEofourawarenessandbreathefreelywithinit
givingourselvesbreathingspace.
EXPANDING THE SPACIOUSNESS OF OUR AWARENESS

ALLOWS US TO BREATHE THE VITALITY OF AWARENESS
THATFILLSSPACE.

9.AWARENESSISVITALAIRANDBREATH

SENSINGTHATWITHEACHBREATHYOUAREBREATHINGIN
THROUGHYOURENTIREBODYSURFACE,YOUAREABLETO
ABSORBANDFEELTHISVITALITYFILLINGYOU.
WhetherwecallitPRANA,CHI,KIorREIKIthissubtleenergy
isnothingbuttheimmanentvitalityofpureawarenessassuch,
present throughout space. Only one method of breathing
allowsustoinstantlydrawthisspiritualvitalityintoourbody
by sensing the infinity of cosmic space around us and feeling
as if we are drawing or breathing its vitality in through our
entire body surface that is to say, through every pore of our
skinandintoeverycellofourbody.
The skin is our principal organ of respiration. That is why no

methodofbreathinginvolvingonlytheinneranatomicalorgans
ofbreathnose,mouth,diaphragmandlungscandrawonthe
vitalityofpureawarenessthatsurroundsusasspace.

10.THEEGOICISUBSTITUTESFORAWARENESS

Throughtheuseofthesingleword'I'indeedintheveryactof
uttering it in speech, the ego seizes upon, grasps and
appropriates all experiencing as its own personal private
property saying to itself and others: "I think this" or "I feel
that. The egos delusion of owning its experience is the
essential block to higher awareness known in the yogic
tradition as Anavamala. In owning or appropriating all
experiencing for itself, the ego both traps our everyday self in
identificationwith'its'personalexperiencing,andexpropriates
thatexperiencingfromthattranspersonalawarenessthatisits
divinesourceandtheultimateexperiencer.
Thatiswhyif,wheninsteadofthinking:
"'I'think/feel/sensethisorthatorwesaytoourselves:
"Thereisanawarenessofthinking/feeling/sensingthis."

In this way we prevent the egoic 'I' from owning or
appropriatingexperienceasitsprivatepropertyandrecognise
awarenessitselfandassuchasthesoleexperiencerofallthat
canbeexperienced.
Enlightenment is not the destruction of the ego as such but

transcendence of the PROPRIETORIAL or POSSESSIVE ego
thatIwhichtakesconsciousexperiencingasitsownactivity,
takes all experiences as its private property and treats its
body and brain as a material means of production of
experience.
Outofthistranspersonalawarenessofexperiencingcomesan
entirely new experience of awareness and an entirely new
experienceofselfanexperienceofthatSelfthatisawareness
andofthatawarenesswhichisourdeepestSelfidenticalwith
the Divine. The liberated ego no longer immediately seizes
upon,grasps,ownsandappropriatesitsexperiencingasour
own.Insteaditisitselfenownedreownedandreappropriated
bythattranspersonalawarenesswhichisourdivineSelf.

THE LIBERATED EGO OR IKNOWS ITSELF SOLELY AS A

MINDER OR CARETAKER OF THAT AWARENESS OUT OF
WHICH ALL EXPERIENCING ARISES NOT ITS OWNER OR
'SUBJECT'.

The higher truth is that it is not 'we' that experience or 'have'

experiences,norwethatexperienceor'have'aself.Insteadall
experiencing, including our selfexperience, belongs to and
arisesfromtheDivineAwarenessas
ITSselfexpression and ITS selfexperience. To be able, in

everyday speech and communication, to utter the word 'I' in
this sense from out of an awareness transcending it is the

highestandmostdemandingaccomplishmentinthePracticeof
AwarenessthatisTheNewYogaofAwareness.

11.FREEDOMISAWAREACTION

Free action is aware action because only out of awareness

comes mindfulness of more than one possible action and free
choicebetweenthem.
Everysinglethingyoudowithoutfirstgivingtimetobeaware
ofwhatelseyoumightbestdoatthistime,howelseorinwhat
othermanneryoumightbestdoit,andwhenelsemightbethe
besttimetodoiteverysuchactisanunawareandunfreeact.
Unaware action is unfree actionbecauseitdoesnotcomeout

ofanawarenessofalternativewhats,howsandwhensand
thereforeisnotanactoffreechoicebutratheronedetermined
solelybyegoorimpulse.
12.AWAREACTIONISRIGHTACTION
Aware action is right action because it comes from giving

ourselves time to weigh up and feel out the rightness of
different possible actions in awareness and let awareness
decideratherthanegoorimpulse.Actionpositivelydecidedby
theegowithoutmeditativeawarenessisitselfmerereactionto
externaleventsandsurrendertoinnerimpulses.
Whetherweactimpulsively,intheheatofthemoment,oruse
reason to coolly rationalise our actions, makes no difference.
For if we do act and speak without meditative awareness and
mindfulness of alternative possible deeds and words, all our
actions remain unaware, unfree and purely reactive. Unaware,
unpremeditated actions are like actions engaged in
spontaneouslyinadreamwithoutthelucidityandfreedomof
choicethatcomesfromawarenessthatwearedreaming.
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Inanearlier,wiserage,whattodaywecallTheoriesofEverythingusedtobecalledreligions
or philosophies and their proponents were pious thinkers or philosophers rather than SelectLanguage
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of things, there can be no theory about anything let alone a theory of everything. It is only
because we insist on regarding awareness itself as a thing or as an evolutionary property
onlyofcertaintypesofthing(biologicalorganismsinparticular)thatweareblindedtothetruth
of an ageold Theory of Everything namely that Awareness itself IS everything. Not
awareness OF some thing or other, nor simply human subjective awareness my awareness
oryoursbutAwarenessassuch,capitalised. Home
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The philosophy that Awareness is Everything and its converse namely that Everything is
Awareness is what I term The Awareness Principle. This Principle challenges every search ThePracticeofAwareness
for a Theory of Everything grounded purely in physics, and aiming to find it in the form of
some supercomplex mathematical relation, of matter, energy, space and time. For as the WhoorWhatistheExperiencingSelf?
philosopher Martin Heidegger noted, the nature and presuppositions of physics are not
themselves the possible object of any possible physical experiment but are something that
needs to be thought through metaphysically philosophically. If we even begin to think the MeditationasaPracticeofAwareness
nature of physics philosophically we see immediately that, far from being evidentially,
experimentally or empirically grounded, it ignores the most selfevident, empirical starting TheAwaresssPrincipleversusAccepted
pointofscientificinquirywhichisnottheobjectiveexistence of a universe of matter, energy Presuppositions
spaceandtimebutsubjectiveawarenessofit.
Principle'

TheAwarenessPrincipleassole
IusethetermAwareness(capitalised)ratherthanourawarenessdeliberatelybecauseThe 'TheoryofEverything'
Awareness Principle also challenges the presupposition that awareness is necessarily the
Awarenessasthenew1stPrincipleof
privatepropertyofseparatebodiesorbeings.Insteaditproposesthatallbodiesandbeingsare
Science
butindividualisedshapes,patternsandqualitiestakenbyAwarenessassuch,thatbeingsonly
perceive each other as bodies in the first place within fields of awareness and do so FurtherAxiomsofTheAwareness
according to the particular way their individual awareness fields are perceptually and Principle
conceptually patterned. Concepts themselves are not just ideas in our heads and minds
detached from the universe they seek to represent. Instead they are but the conceptual 'Awareness','Consciousness'andthe
'Unconscious'
expression of highly individualised and speciesspecific fieldpatterns of awareness patterns
that shape each species and each individuals entire perception of the universe, not least our Awareness,Spaceand'Spirituality'
ownscientificconceptionsofitandtheoriesaboutit.

This brings us to a new and revolutionary philosophical aspect of The Awareness Principle,
namelytheunderstandingitbringsthatAwarenessisnotsomethinglocalisedinourheadsor
in individual organs or organisms, but has an essentially nonlocal or field character. Having QuestionsandAnswers
the character of an unbounded spatial and temporal field, Awareness is in principle
irreducible to and unexplainable by any thing or things we are aware of as (localised) Summary
phenomena within this field, any localised objects and any localised subjects of awareness
Summary2
too. Thus to even seek to explain awareness as the product of some localisable thing we are
awareof(thehumanbrainforexample)makesnomoresensethantoseedreamingtheentire
field of our dreaming awareness as something reducible to, caused or explicable by some
particular,localisablethingthatwehappentodreamofwithinthisfield.Evenifwehappenedto COUNSELLING,MEDITATIONAND
repeatedly dream an image of a brain, who would even dream of taking this as evidence that YOGA
dreamingassuchisapropertyofthisparticulardreamtobject?Yetthisistheessentialerrorof
materialistic body and brainbased accounts of mind, consciousness and awareness, THERAPY(ABCT)
forgetting as they do that the brain itself is but one localisable phenomenon within the larger
fieldofhumanwakingawareness and that this field too is in principle irreducible to any one AwarenessorMindfulnessBased
Thingthatappearswithinit. Therapy(MBCT)
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Theprinciplethatawarenesshasafieldcharacter,andthereforecannotinprinciplebereduced
toorexplainedbyanythingweareawareofwithinthatfield,isoneofthebasicaxiomsorfirst
principlesofTheAwarenessPrinciple.ItsmostessentialfirstprincipleisthatAwarenessas
such and not any thing we perceive or conceive of within it, is itself necessarily the First FURTHERESSAYSANDBOOKSBY
PETERWILBERG
Principle of the universe being the precondition for our awareness of anything and
everything, and thus the precondition too for any possible Theory of Everything.
Understandingthis,theonlypossibleTheoryofEverythingisTheAwarenessPrincipleitself
theunderstandingthatAwarenessisEverythingandEverythingisAwareness.Forjustasthere FURTHERPRACTICESOF
AWARENESS
can in principle be nothing outside space, so can aso there be nothing outside Awareness
no Thing to study or invent Theories about. The Awareness Principle simply recognises BasicMeditationalAwarenessPractices
Awareness as that which is in principle be the sole or absolute reality leading to a Theory Meditation,Movementand'JustSitting'
which much necessarily understand all Things as manifestations or materialisations of PracticingSittingasMeditation
Awareness. BodilyandSpatialAwareness

The Awareness Principle achieves this understanding only by undermining a principal Awareness
unquestioned presupposition of both scientists and academic philosophers namely that IntroducingotherstoTheAwareness
Awareness is necessarily the property of separate, localised beings or bodies. Yet as long as PrincipleanditsBasicPractices
MicroMeditations
religionists too, cling onto the belief that God is some sort of being with awareness, rather
than being identical with Awareness (an ageold Indian religious philosophy) they fall into the
sametrapasandthereforefallpreytotheatheisticargumentsofscientistssuchasRichard
Dawkins or philosophers such as Daniel Dennett. For it is only because they also cling to the THENEWYOGAOFAWARENESS
misconception that Awareness is necessarily the private property of beings in the form of
biologicalorganismsororgansthebraininparticularthattheysofirmlybelieveGodtobe
amerefigmentofhumanbeingsandoftheevolutionarybiologyoftheirbrains. OURSPACIOUSBODYOFAWARENESS

AllcurrentscientificTheoriesofEverythingareessentiallythesameTheorytheTheorythat Buy'TheAwarenessPrinciple'byPeter
the universe consists solely of Things. Within the terms of this unstated Theory of Wilberg
Everything, and in contrast to The Awareness Principle, Things themselves are necessarily
seen as preconditions for sentience, consciousness or awareness, awareness is necessarily
seenasaproductorbyproductofsomeThing,andeffectivelyreducedtoaThinginitself.It
is in the light of such a grand, dogmatic unstated and above all unquestioned Theory of
Everything that we can truly heed the words of Martin Heidegger: Science IS the new
religion.ForallwouldbephysicalscientificTheoriesofEverythingamounttonothingmore
than a religiously held belief that the universe consists of nothing more than Things thus
totallyforgettingthatAwarenessofThingsispriorinprincipletoanypossibleTheoryofthem,

and that therefore Awareness as such cannot in principle be reduced to or explained by any
LookInside
Thing whatsoever. Such in principle recognitions express the essence of The Awareness
Principle, together with the consequent affirmation that The Awareness Principle itself is the
sole basis for a Theory of that which ultimately lies behind Everything for it is the only
TheorythatrecognisesthatanyandeveryThingisessentiallyaphenomenonemergingfrom
and within fields of awareness, and ultimately from within that unbounded and infinite field of
awarenesswhichalonedeservedtoberecognisedandreligiouslyreveredasGodandmust
beifGodisnottobereducedtoonebeingamongothersweareawareof.Awarenessassuch

itself is the not only the source of what we call matter and energy, but is also the essence of
whatwecallsoulandspirit,indeedtheessenceofGodassuch.Allthisisanathematoanot
only to all forms of religion whose Theory of Everything reduce God to one being or
phenomenon among others, but also to that science, now elevated to the status of a religion,
PETER
thathasforgottentheverymeaningofitsnamephysics. WILBERG
The term physics derives the Greek physis means to emerge, just as the term
phenomenon comes from the Greek phainesthai meaning to show itself, and the word
existence has the root meaning of to stand out or exist. The Awareness Principle whilst
indeedaphilosophicalTheoryofEverything,isalsoonethatatthesametimeunderstandsall
Things as physical phenomena in the truest, most radical or root sense of these words as Clicktogoto
things that can in principle only be seen to emerge from, show themselves and stand out
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(exist) within Awareness as such understood as the very context or field from and within
which they do so. A for Awareness is truly the missing factor and letter in that most famous
Einsteinianequation:e=mc2.Fornotevensuchathingaslight,whosespeedisabasicand
invariable factor in this equation, would be visible were it not for the invisible light of
awareness in which alone all things, including physical light itself, can emerge, show
themselves and exist or stand out. To explain such phenomena as light itself in purely
mathematicaltermsasabstractquantaisnottobringscienceclosertotheunderlyingreality
of the universe, but infinitely further away from what is immediately evident to each and all of
usnamelythatwecouldnotbeawareofanything,letalonedevelopaTheoryofEverything
without the simple experiential fact of us being first of all aware of a universe of things. And
justasnoobjectsareperceptibleorevenconceivablewithoutaspacesurroundingthem,noris
ourawarenessofanythingorinspaceconceivablewithoutaspacious field of awareness. The
recognition that space and time themselves are not essentially objective or physical
dimensions of the universe but innate dimensions of subjective awareness was bequeathed to
Western Philosophy centuries ago by Immanuel Kant and much, much earlier by Indian
religious philosophy. When will our modern physicists, with their wouldbe Theories of
Everything begin to heed this heritage, instead of priding themselves on the objectivity of
their Theories and denying the essentially subjective nature of all experiencing and of
Everythingwecanpossiblyexperience?Inthisrespect,notonlytodaysscientistswiththeir
crude conceptions of the universe, but also their current religionist enemies, with their crude
and unquestioned concepts of God, would both do well to be reminded of such already clear
affirmationsofTheAwarenessPrincipleasIcitebelow.Theseaffirmationsstemneitherfrom
priests,physicistsorpurelyacademicphilosophersofmindbutfromthemostpiousthinkers
of10thcenturyIndia,andgiveexpressiontotruthsalreadyrecognisedbyothersagescenturies
beforethem:
the being of all things that are recognised
in awareness in turn depends on awareness.
space is inherent in the soul as true subjectivity which is at once empty of objects and
which also provides a place in which objects may be known.
Abhinavagupta
Everyappearanceowesitsexistence
tothelightofawareness.
Nothingcanhaveitsownbeing
withoutthelightofawareness.
Kshemaraja
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ACCEPTEDPRESUPPOSITION
Reality,truthandtruescientificknowledgeisobjective.
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Reality,truth,andtruescientificknowledgeissubjective.

TheAwaresssPrincipleversus
AcceptedPresuppositions
Principle'
Thestartingpointofscienceandthemostbasicscientificfactisthe TheAwarenessPrincipleassole'Theory
objectiveexistenceofauniverseofbodiesinspacetime. ofEverything'
Science

Principle
'Unconscious'
Themostbasicscientificfactisanawarenessofauniverseofbodies Awareness,Spaceand'Spirituality'
inspaceandtime. Awarenessand'Psychology'
QuestionsandAnswers
ACCEPTEDPRESUPPOSITION Summary
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Spaceandtimeareobjectivedimensionsofrealityinwhichthings
exist. COUNSELLING,MEDITATIONAND
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Spaceandtimearesubjectivedimensionsofawareness.
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AWARENESS
Theuniverseiscomposedofunitsofmatterandenergy. BasicMeditationalAwarenessPractices
THEAWARENESSPRINCIPLE MeditatingAwarenessasSpace
Theuniverseiscomposedofawareness.Energyisthe Awareness
materialisationofawareness. PrincipleanditsBasicPractices
MicroMeditations

ACCEPTEDPRESUPPOSITION OURSPACIOUSBODYOFAWARENESS
Awarenessorsubjectivityissomethingownedtheprivate
propertyofanegoorI,beingorperson,selforsubject. Wilberg
Awarenessisnotsomethingweown,nottheprivatepropertyof
beings,persons,selvesorsubjects.Insteaditistheverysourceof

allindividualisedbeingsandalllocalisedsubjects. LookInside

Awarenessisanemergentpropertyorevolutionarybyproductofan PeterWilberg BOOKSBY

unawarematterandenergyandapropertyorfunctionofthebody. PETER
WILBERG
Notjustthehumanbodybutallbodiesareoutwardshapestakenby
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Awarenessissomethingpossessedandboundedbybodiesin
space,likeasoulcontainedwithinthebodyandboundedbyit.
Awarenessoftheworldaroundusofthespacesurroundingour
bodiesandofotherbodiesisnotitselfboundedbyourownbody.
Thesoulorpsycheisnotmerelyaninnerawarenessofourselves
butembracesourentireawarenessoftheworldaroundus.
Weareourmindsandbodies,thoughtsandemotions,impulsesand
actions,andthewayweexperienceourselvesthroughthem.
Ourmindsandbodies,thoughtsandemotionsandsensory
experiencetogetherformourexperiencedself.Wearenotour
experienceorourexperiencedself.Wearetheawarenesswhich
experiencesthatself.
Awarenessissomethinglocalisedinthebrainandalwaysfocussed
onsomeobjectorthing.
Awarenessisessentiallynonlocalaspaceorfieldwithinwhichwe
cometoexperiencethingsandcanchoosetofocusonthem.
Themindisamirroroftheworld.
Themindisamirrorofourawarenessoftheworld.
Subjectiveawarenessisamirrorofan'objective'world.
Theworldisamirrorandamanifestationofawareness.
Awarenessisalwaysawareness'of'something.
Awarenessassuchispriorto,distinctfromandtranscendsallthings
weareawareof.
Awarenessisthesameasconsciousnessofthings.
Likeemptyspace,awarenessassuchembraces,transcendsand
pervadeseverythingweareawareorconsciousof.Thesocalled
unconsciousisnotastateofnonawarenessbutpureawareness
awarenessassuch.
Allthingsallbodiesandbeingsaremadeupofformsand
patternsofmatterandenergy.
"Wearesuchstuffasdreamsaremadeon."Shakespeare.
Everythingorbeingweareawareofisinturncomposedofforms,
patternsandqualitiesofawareness.
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Thinkofallyouareexperiencingatanypointintimewhetherinwardly
or outwardly, physically or emotionally together with all your mental
reflections on your experience as one side of a coin or line. Think of the Translate
other side of the coin or line as nothing but the very awareness of
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The Practice of Awareness is a primary choice based on this primary
distinction. It is the choice to identify with the pure awareness of the things
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we experience rather than identifying with those things themselves. By
thingsweexperienceImeananythingfromanoutwardlyexperiencedobject,
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situation, event or action, to an inwardly experienced impulse, sensation,
mood,emotion,memory,anticipationorthought. ofEverything'
In writings on Eastern spiritual teachings, too much mystery is usually
made of the idea of attaining an 'enlightened' state of pure or
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transcendental awareness one that is free of thoughts,
emotions, sensations etc. and of the supposed time and effort needed to
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attainsuchanawareness.
Inreality,ifTheAwarenessPrincipleisunderstood,nogreateffortatall 'Unconscious'
isrequiredtoattainthisstateofpureortranscendentalawareness.Forjust
as the awareness of a physical object such as a leather chair is not itself a
chairandnoristhatawareness'made'ofleather,soalsoistheawarenessof Awarenessand'Psychology'
athoughtorfeelingnotitselfathoughtorfeeling.Similarly,theawarenessof
any thing (whether an object, situation, event, mood, emotion, desire,
impulse,action,thoughtetc.)isnotitselfathingorthoughtofanysort.
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free. Therefore our minds do do not need to be effortfully emptied of any Summary
thoughts or things to attain a state of empty or pure awareness. For just as
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empty space is absolutely distinct from all the objects within it, so also is
pure awareness absolutely distinct from all its contents from all we are
aware of. It does not need to be emptied of all content to be as clear and
pureastheemptyspacearoundobjects.Indeeditisthatspacespaceitself YOGA
beingnothingbutaspatialfieldofawarenesssurroundingandpervadingall
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A Basic Practice of Awareness: Whether sitting, standing or lying, and

without closing your eyes, simply be aware of the different things you are
currentlyexperiencingthingsofanyandallsorts,fromphysicalobjectsand TheBodyasaLanguageofAwareness
sensations to emotions, actions and thoughts. Now simply become more

aware of the clear space around your body, and around all the physical
objects in your environment. Feel a similar clear space around any things PETERWILBERG
youareexperiencinginsideyou,suchasemotionsandthoughts.Inthisway
you will come to experience the open, clear and spacelike quality of pure
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awareness as such, and be able to identify with this primordiual space of AWARENESS
awarenessratherthanwithanythinginit.
All the Practices of Awareness, evolved from The Awareness Principle PracticingSittingasMeditation
makeupwhatIcallTheNewYogaofAwareness.Theyarebasedonpassing BodilyandSpatialAwareness
fromanewawarenessofexperiencetoanewexperienceofawarenessfor ExpandingSpatialAwareness
example as seemingly empty space itself (in reality a spacious field of AspectsofthePracticeofAwareness
awareness), as light (in reality an expression of the translucent light of Awareness
awareness)andas'air'inahighersensetheallpervasivecosmicether of IntroducingotherstoTheAwareness
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Beingassuchhasthreeprimaryontological
dimensions,distinctbutinseparable.Theseinclude Home
notonlywhatiscalledBeing,butalsowhatiscalled FromFocaltoFieldAwareness
NonBeingandwhatcanbecalledComingtoBe TakingTimetoBeAware
BecomingorBeING.
TheAwarenessPrincipleunderstandsthethree
primaryontologicalrealms,i.e.NonBeing,Being,
andComingtoBe(BeingorBecoming)as MeditationasaPracticeofAwareness
primordialrealmsofAwarenessassuch: TheAwaresssPrincipleversusAccepted
Presuppositions
1.AWARENESSOFNONBEING FirstPrinciplesof'TheAwareness
Principle'
Awareness,notofNothingnessbutofallthatis TheAwarenessPrincipleassole'Theory
ofEverything'
stilllatentorpotentialinAwareness.Assuchitis
madeupofpotentialitiesofawareness.These Awarenessasthenew1stPrincipleof
Science
potentialitiesofawarenesshaveinturnthenatureof
potentialbeings,i.e. FurtherAxiomsofTheAwareness
Principle
individualisedconsciousnesses
'Unconscious'
2.AWARENESSOFBEING Awareness,Spaceand'Spirituality'
Thisistherealmofallactualbeings,worldsand Awarenessand'Psychology'
events,allofwhicharecopresentintheUniversal Awarenessor'Energy'?
AwarenessFieldunderstoodasasingulartime
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spaceofawarenesswhichembracesnotonlypast, Awareness
presentandfutureactualitiesbutalternateand
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parallelones.
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3.BEING/BECOMING/COMINGTOBE

This is the innate power of actualisation of all

potential beings, events and realities and events YOGA
past,present,futureandparallelwhicharenotonly
copresent but constantly copresencing or coming THERAPY(ABCT)
to be in the Universal Awareness Field and its all
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BeingasBeing
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The unity of all three realms lies not only in the fact that they are fundamentally
realmsofawarenessbuttheiressenceliesinthethirdrealminparticular.ForthoughI
have termed this the realm of Becoming, philosophy has traditionally opposed the
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concept of Being understood as static, unchanging presence with that of AWARENESS
Becoming,understoodasconstantfluxorchange.
YetwhatiftheessenceofbothBeingandBecomingisneitherthesimple,unchanging BasicMeditationalAwarenessPractices
presenceofthingsinawareness,northeirconstantchange,butrathertheircontinuous Meditation,Movementand'JustSitting'
presencingtheirBeing?
Whatif,indeed,thereisnothingoutthereorinherethatissimplypresent,waiting MeditatingAwarenessasSpace
tobeperceived? ExpandingSpatialAwareness
What if, instead of there simply being things of any sort that we then happen to be AspectsofthePracticeofAwareness
aware of , there is ultimately nothing but awareness as such constantly and 10StepsFromBeingAwaretoBeing
continuouslythingingitself? Awareness
No trees, branches, leaves, flowers or fruit but a constant treeing, branching, leafing,
flowering and fruiting. No everyday objects like tables and chairs but the constant and MicroMeditations
sustainedtablingandchairingofeachtableorchair.
Whatifthereisnomatterbutaconstantmatteringormaterialisingofawarenessnot
myawarenessoryoursbuttheOne,universalorUltimateAwareness?
Whatifnotonlythingsbuttheirsensoryqualitiesarenotsimplypresent,butconstantly
andcontinuouslypresencing?
Whatifwewereabletoexperienceacoloursuchasorange,forexample,asaconstant
orangeing,ashapesuchasroundnessasaconstantrounding, and a material texture
suchaswoodasaconstantwooding?
The understanding of Becoming not simply as change or transformation but as Buy'TheAwarenessPrinciple'byPeter

comingtobe or becoming as Being, is central. For true wonder at the fact that Wilberg
anythingisatallisimpossibleunlessweareabletodirectlyexperiencetheirBeingor
isnessinawhollynewwaynotassomesortofoneoffcreationoutofNothingness
exnihilothatleavesthemsimplythere,presenttoourawarenessandeitherchanging
ornotchanging,butratherastheirconstantemergenceorpresencing from and within
awarenesstheirBeing.
The Being of things understood as simple copresence in awareness is the essence of
space. Understood as their Being on the other hand their continuous presencing it
istheessenceoftime.Theworldaroundusandeverythinginitisindeedinthissense,

notsimplythereatall. LookInside
Thereisindeednothingthatsimplyisinthesenseofbeingpresent.Yettheterrorof
NonBeingorNothingnessinthissenseofnothingnesscanatonceberemoved
bysheerwonderandgratefulnessfortheconstantthingingofthings,theirBeing.
Beingisusuallythoughtofasastate.RethinkingitasBeinghowever,Beingisnot
astatebutaprocess.ItisnothingandyetneitherisitNothing.
Instead it is a continuous process of creative actualisation or Action. What unites all
three realms of awareness therefore is not only Awareness as such and its innate
potentials,butalsotheactualisationorpresencingofthesepotentials.
AwarenessofPotentialityanditsperpetualpresencingoractualisation,areinseparable
aspects of the Divine. Thus we do not need to actualise our being or self. For it is
constantlybeingactualised,constantlypresencinginawareness.Thisisthemeaningof PETER
BeingasBeing. WILBERG
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toapaintingorpieceofmusic,andjustasastemcellcangiverisetoahostofspecific homepage
cell types, so can creative Potentialities always find more than one possible form of
actualisation. Furthermore however, the realm of Potentiality is itself constantly being
enrichedbynewPossibilities.Forjustasonethoughtorthingautomaticallyimpliesor
gives rise to another, so does all creative Action automatically imply and give rise to
multiplefurtherPossibilities ofAction of actualisation or manifestation. Thus there is
also an endless cyclical or rather spiral relation uniting the 3rd realm (that of creative
ActionorActualisation)withthe1st realm(thatofcreativePotentiality)throughthe2nd
realm(thatofallthatisconstantlybeingActualised).Inadditiontothetriadofthethree
primaryrealms(PotentialityorNonBeing,ActualityorBeing,andActualisationasBe
ing) we must recognise a fourth the realm of Possibility. All Action and Actualities
then, emerge not simply from the 1st realm of pure Potentiality therefore, but from a
Realm of Possible actions and actualities one that is both latent in the realm of
Potentiality and at the same time constantly being expanded through the very process
of Actualisation. Yet the question then arises what becomes of the Alternate
PossibilitiesgeneratedbytheprocessofActualisationinanygivendomainorworldof
Actualitybutnotthemselvesactualisedwithinit?Theansweristhatthesenotonlyfeed
backintothe1st realm,thatofpurePotentialitybutalsofindexpressioninarealmof
AlternateorParallelActualities.ThisiswhatItermtherealmofAlternityorParallelity
recognisedinquantumphysicsthroughtheParallelWorldstheoryofHughEverett.
Theresultoftheseconsiderationsisthatinadditiontothetriadofthreeprimary
domainsofrealitysofarconsideredthoseofPotentiality,Actualityandtheprocessof
Actualisation the action of realisation as such we must add three further realms: a
realm of constantly multiplying Possibilities of Action without which no free action or
choicewouldbepossibleandwithinwhichallactionsandchoicesfirstoccur,arealm
of Parallel actualities in which alternate Possibilities are chosen and actualised. These
are in turn united by a realm of Reciprocal Action whereby Possibilities actualised in
one world or actuality both spring from and generate unActualised possibilities in
another Alternate or Parallel world. For whilst in any one Actual reality the Parallel
realities in which Alternate Possibilities of action are Actualised appear as mere
imaginary possibilities in those Alternate or Parallel realities themselves, these
Possibilities are experienced as fully real as Actualities. Our every experience and
actionthen,isnotjusttheActualisationofaPotentialitywithintheActualityofourown
world (the one we take as sole reality) but also the Actualisation from within a vast
realm of Possible actions of alternate actions and experiences within Alternate
ActualitiesorParallelWorlds.
This principle applies to the self or I also. For that self or I which does or
experiencesonethinginoneworldorsphereofActualityisitselfnotthesameselfor
I as that which experiences or enacts another Possibility in a parallel but Alternate
Actuality.Togetherthen,withParallelorAlternateActionsandActualities,worldsand
universes,goParallelandAlternateselves.Thesemultipleselves,actions,possibilities
and actualities are united only by a higher Awareness one which embraces not only
the three primary realms of Potentiality, Actuality and Action or Actualisation, but also
thethree,nolesssignificantrealmsofPossibility,AlternateorParallelActualitiesand
theirReciprocity.PureAwarenessaloneistheprimordialzerorealmthatembracesall
theothersixrealmsordomainsofreality.
FromThreetoSixRealmsofAwareness
1.TheRealmofPotentialitythatisthesourceofall.
2. The Realm of Actuality that we normally identify with

'reality'perse.
3.TheRealmofActualisationorActionassuchofreality
asrealisation.
4.TheRealmofPossibilityofmultiplepossibleactionsand
actualities.
5. The Realm of Alternity or Parallelity of Parallel but

AlternateActualities.
6. The Realm of Reciprocity the reciprocal relation of

ActualandAlternaterealities.
TheSeventhRealmPlurality
TherealmofParallelityembracesnotjustcountlessalternateorparallelphysical
realities, but also an infinite Plurality of prephysical and transphysical realms,
domains,orplanesofawareness.Ineachoftheseplanes(SanskritLoka) experiencing
takesonawhollydifferentnatureandwhollydifferentformstothoseweareusedtoin
thephysicalplaneasitdoesintheplaneofdreamingawarenessforexample.Inallof
these transphysical realms, the experienced relation between the six fundamental
realms of awareness is different in one way or another. In the domain of dreaming
awarenessforexample,asinthefirsttransphysicalplaneweenterinthelifebetween
lives, Actualities are less fixed and we experience with far more immediacy that
constant process of Actualisation or Being whereby different elements of our
experience, inner and outer, are both constantly comingtobe or arising and also
passing away as in a dream. The realms of dreaming and of the afterlife are
experienced directly as realms of Becoming in the traditional sense of arising and
passing away. In yet other realms of the lifebetween lives we have the opportunity to
experience Parallel realities simultaneously, and to explore, in pseudophysical form,
alltheAlternateliveswemighthaveledonearth.The1st primaryrealmofawareness
the realm of Potentiality is an intensional timespace of awareness circumscribing
spacetime itself, and embracing all Potential, Possible and all Parallel Actualities
including what we perceive physically as past, present and future existences and
Actualities. This timespace is not onedimensional an experience of one thing
followinganotherinasinglelineofspacetime.Insteaditisanawareness that spans
and embraces multiple moments in time and multiple lifetimes simultaneously. From
itsperspective,alllifetimesaresimultaneousorcopresent,andthereisnomomentof
anyofourlivesthatisnotconstantlyandeternallybeinglived.Momentsdonotsimply
constitute a present which then disappear into the Past to be superseded by Future
moments. Instead all that is experienced as present is constantly presencing
constantlyemergingfromtherealmofPossibilityandconstantlygivingrisetoAlternate
pastandfutureActualities.
Socalled reincarnational existences on the physical plane are but one linear,
temporal dimension of the realm of Alternity or Parallelity. This realm also embraces
countless nonphysical as well as physical planes of reality, all of which together
constitute the realm of Plurality a multidimensional universe or multiverse of
awareness,madeupofcountlessplanesofawareness.TheseareallParallelplanesin
thesensethateachisdefinedbyoneofaninfinitenumberofAlternatePossiblemodes
ofexperiencing.Thuswhatmaybeperceivedasvariationsofmaterialmass,density
orformonthephysicalplanemaybeexperiencedasvariationsoflight,ofcolourorof
quasimusicaltoneoffeelingindifferentnonphysicalplanesandviceversa.Whatis
experienced as inner on one plane may be experienced as outer in another or as
neitherinnernorouter.Ingeneral,whatisexperiencedwithinthehighernonphysical
planestakestheformofpsychicalqualiasensedandsensualqualitiesofawareness
as such. Instead of perceiving space as a physical expanse before our eyes for
example,itwillbeexperiencedasaspaciousfieldorexpansionofawarenessassuch.
Whereasonthephysicalplaneafeelingofwarmthorcoolnesstowardsanotherperson
mightexpressitselfasphysicalclosenessordistancetothem,onnonphysicalplanes,
whatweordinarilyexperienceasspatialclosenessanddistance(orasphysicalwarmth
orcoolness)isexperiencedpurelyaswarmthorcoolnessoffeeling. Phenomena such
as light, warmth, colour and sound are experienced on nonphysical planes not as
sensory qualities of objects, but rather as sensual qualities of awareness light being
experienced as luminous radiance of awareness itself, and colours and tones as felt
colourations or tones of awareness comparable to what we sense as tones or
colourationsofmood.
FromMetaphysicstoPhysics
Physics used to be identified with a mechanistic view of the universe in which

everything consisted of matter in motion. Quantum physics has effectively made the
notionofsolidmattermeaningless.Foronanultramicroscopicorquantumlevel,such
things as mass, momentum, energy, space and time, cease to be separately
quantifiableorevendefinablerealitiesevenparticlessuchaselectronsturningoutto
have the same nonlocalised wave character as light. In dispelling the myth of matter
quantum physics has also made redundant our common but mythical idea of motion.
When we view objects and people moving on a TV screen we know at the back of our
minds that we are not actually observing matter in motion but simply multiple points
of light with different colours or wavelengths turning on and off at different fixed
points on the screen and in doing so forming regular patterns on that screen which
appear like familiar material objects and seem to be in motion. From a quantum
physicalperspectivehowever,allperceivedmotion,evenmotioninwhatweperceiveas
threedimensional space, has the same character as motion on a flat twodimensional
screen. Nothing nothing actually moves in space. There is simply a potential for
seeing things at varying points in space. When a ball has been thrown it is no more
than a visual image of motion in space of the sort created by points of light on a flat
screen.YetasSamuelAveryconvincinglyargues,behindourvisualimageoftheballin
motion lurks a potential tactile sensation that of catching and feeling the ball in our
hands.Itisthispotentialfortactilesensationthatmakesussensetheballnotjustasa
visualimagewecanseebutassolidmatter.Similarly,itisbecauseweareawarethat
the food we actually see on our TV dinner plate can also potentially be touched and
tasted that we regard it as having more materiality than a mere photograph or TV
imageoffoodonaplate.TheTVimageitselfonlyseemstoberealmatterlikeinso
far as it reminds us of these potential qualities we can also recall or imagine the
tactilesensationoffeelingaballorthetastesensationofeatingamealthatweseeon
TV.InAveryswords:Itisthepotentialfortactilesensationthatmakesavisualimage
physical. And more generally The concept of material substance is derived from
potentialperceptionsineachsensoryrealm.[mystress].
Inotherwords,whatwethinkofasmatterisnothingsimplyactualbutrathera
relation between actual experiences in one sensory dimension of experience (for
example the visual) and potential experiences in another (for example the tactile
dimension).Fornotonlydoallactualexperiencesbeginaspotentialexperiences as
potentialpatternsorqualitiesofawareness.Theyalsoseemallthemore actual to the
extent that, like the experience of seeing a ball coming towards us, they are
accompaniedbyanawarenessofpotentialexperiencessuchasmovingtocatchtheball
andfeelingitinourhands.Yeteventheapparentmotionofourownbodiesincatching
aballisnotanexampleofmatterinmotion.Thereisnomotionofourbodyinspace
merelytheawarenessofsubjectivesensationsofmotion,andofdifferentactionssuch
as catching a ball. The essence of all bodily action then, is not actually any sort of
objectivemotionofourbodiesinspacebutrathertheactualisationofpotential patterns
of sensation. Both matter and its motion then, are nothing essentially objective but
rather an awareness of potential dimensions and patterns of sensory experiencing
within actual ones. Matter is therefore real only in the root sense of the word as
mother[mater]ofallthingsbeingthematernalwombormatrixofpotentialitymore
specifically a realm of potential patterns and qualities of awareness. These then find
experienceasactualpatternsandqualitiesofsensoryexperiencing.
ThemetaphysicalrealmofPotentialitythen,canbesaidtoconsistofcountless
potential fieldpatterns and fieldqualities of awareness comparable to the countless
potential images that a flat twodimensional screen could display. The realm of
physicalActualityontheotherhand,consistsofactually patternedfieldsandqualities
of awareness comparable to all the images we actually perceive, not just on two
dimensional screens, but as the overall fourdimensional field of sensory awareness
that we experience as the physical world. The realm of Plurality is comparable to the
countless actual channels or web images available to us for viewing on a TV or
computer screen. The Realm of Alternity or Parellelity can be compared to all the
alternate TV channels, webpages and video streams that are constantly and
concurrently running in parallel within the realm of Plurality unreal for those who
maynotbeawareofthematall,butrealforthosewhoareawareofthemandforwhom
theybecomeactualbyviewingthem.TherealmofReciprocitycanbecomparedtothe
wayinwhichalternatepossibleTVchannels,programmesandwebsitesnotonlydefine
themselves by the reciprocal relation but have a way of multiplying by simultaneously
differentiating themselves from and mimicking one another. Indeed they may even
mutually and reciprocally incorporate one another as when one webpage or website
offers links to another, one TV channel advertises or shows broadcasts bought from
anotherorevendisplaysabroadcastrunningonanotherchannelinaninternalframe.
Experiential phenomena are recognisably formed patterns or matrices of sensory
qualities, like patterned points of light on a screen. Yet the patterns and sensory
qualities that give form to experienced phenomena as such do not themselves posses
anyactualandtangiblesensoryform.BythisImeanthatthoughwemayexperiencea
phenomenasuchasaheavyredballseeingit,touchingit,feelingitandpickingitup
we cannot pick up our sense of its heaviness, or our perception of its roundness or
redness.Forrednessandroundnessassuchexistonlyasideasinrealitytherebeing
nopureorperfectlyroundobjectsandnowayofperceivingrednessindependentlyof
aparticularhueofred.Indeedthephenomenalformweperceiveandthinkofasaball
is not itself anything material or actual, for the very idea of ballness is rooted in
potentialwaysofactivelyrelatingtothephenomenonofhandling,throwingorkicking
itforexample.
Whereas the sensory experience of a phenomenal form is something physically

tangible, the very patterns and qualities that constitute phenomenal forms, though we
take them as objective are, are essentially all in the mind. Forms are mental ideas
which is why the Greek word eidos meant both idea and form. In the history of
European thought it was Plato who first argued for the pure ideality of material forms,
seeing experienced or phenomenal forms as their shadow reflection. Plato
understoodpureIdeasorFormsasbelongingtoanimmaterialandtranscendentrealm.
Aristotleunderstoodmatter(Greekhyle)aspotentiality,andform(morphe)asactuality.
Actuality results from a capacity (dynamis) for formative activity (energeia) a process
of actualisation which leads towards the realisation of an ideal form or pattern
(entelecheia) that is not transcendent but immanent in all things as their inner aim,
purpose or direction of development (telos). Similarly, Thomas Aquinas, following
Aristotle, understood primary matter (Prima Materia) as nothing actual or substantial
butratheraspurepotentialityatypeofformlessandpassivepotentialityinseparable
from God as active potentiality, the potentiality for the emergence of actual form and
forchangeofformortransformation.TheseAristotelianunderstandingsofmatterare
reflectedtodayinRupertSheldrakesnotionofbiologicalformsandtransformationsas
a result of morphogenesis the progressive actualisation of nonphysical patterns or
morphicfields.
The accusation levelled against the Godconcept of religion namely that God
cannotbeactuallyseen,hasnosensoryqualitiesordefinablelocationapplyequallyto
theMatterconceptofscience.BoththeGodconceptandtheMatterconceptcanbeseen
as substitutes or placeholders for the recognition of that womblike realm of
Potentialitythatisnolessrealthananythingweactuallyexperience.Physicalmatter
isrealonlyintherootsenseofthewordbeingthedivinemother[mater]andmind
ofallthingsawombofpotentialitybearingwithinthementalpatterns,ideashapesor
matrices of all possible actualities. This is not a new thought but one long recognised
byphilosophers,physicistsandtheologiansalike.
Matter can be seen as the very mind of God understood as an awareness of

everypotentialpatternorideashapeofthings.Thisbeingthecase,whoshouldmind
andwhyshoulditmatterifwecalltheprimordialawarenessmindormatter,TheMind
of God, The Great Mother, The Matrix or the Prima Materia? If you dont mind, it
doesnt matter. Yet if It, this universal or divine mother, mind or matrix of all
things,didntquiteliterallymattermaterialisingandactualising itself from a realm
ofpurepotentialitytherewouldliterallybenothingthatwecouldeitherexperienceor
conceive of scientifically as physical matter. What we experience as physical matter
emergesormanifestsfromtherealmofthePotentialthisveryprocessofemergence
(Greekphysis)beingtherootmeaningofthetermsphysicsandphysicalthemselves.
Any metalevel consideration of the nature of physics is of course, by nature meta
physicaltranscendingtheboundsofphysicsasascience.Yetthelatter,aswehave
seen,leadsusrightbacktothemultiplemetaphysicalrealmsofrealityunderstoodas
dimensionsofaUniversalAwarenessField.
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Godsawarenessbutawarenessassuch.Thesinglemostimportant
misconceptionrunningthroughtheentirehistoryofWesternthought FromFocaltoFieldAwareness
isthebeliefthatawarenessiseitheramerebyproductofmatteror
the private property of individual beings. What if it is the other way TakingTimetoBeAware
round? What if all things and all beings are but individualised ThePracticeofAwareness
portionsandexpressionsofanultimateorabsoluteawarenessone
thatisnottheproductorpropertyofanythingorbeingweareaware WhoorWhatistheExperiencingSelf?
of? From this point of view God too, is not some sort of supreme
being with awareness. Instead God is awareness a divine and all
pervasive awareness of which all beings and all things are but a MeditationasaPracticeofAwareness
portionandexpression.
Presuppositions
Theists and atheists can argue endlessly about whether God
exists without ever asking what we mean by the word God. What FirstPrinciplesof'TheAwareness
neitherofthemquestioniswhetherornotwhatwecallGodisany Principle'
typeofexistingbeingatall.Thereisaparadoxhere.Letusconsider TheAwarenessPrincipleassole'Theory
it more deeply. The paradox is that the existence of God would ofEverything'
reduce what we call God to one existing thing or being among
others,thusturningGodintosomethinglimitedandfinitehardlya Awarenessasthenew1stPrincipleof
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fitting understanding of the divine. What I call The Awareness
Principle transcends the question of Gods existence or non FurtherAxiomsofTheAwareness
existence arguing that even though not an existing thing or being Principle
like any other, God is nevertheless the ultimate reality behind and
withinallthingsandallbeings.Thatisbecausebeforeandbehindall 'Unconscious'
existence all existing things and beings is awareness
awarenessofexistenceandawarenessofbeing.Letusconsiderthis Awareness,Spaceand'Spirituality'
again.ToaskwhetherGodexistsislikeaskingwhetheryouorIexist
whetherweare?Howdoweknowthatweexistthatweare?How
doyouknowthatyouexistthatyouare?Howdoanyofusknow Awarenessor'Energy'?
thatweexistthatweare?Weknowbecauseeachofusisawareof
being.Itisthismostintimate,profoundandprimordialawarenessof TheUltimateMetaphysicsofAwareness
being that belongs to the very core and essence of every existing QuestionsandAnswers
being.Sincethisbasicawarenessofbeingbelongstotheverycore
ofeveryexistingbeingitalsotranscendseveryexistingbeing.This Summary
pure and profound awareness of being, and not any thing or being
Summary2
weareawareof,isthetrueessenceandrealityofGodthedivine.
WhilstGodisnotsomesupremeCreatorbeingwithawareness, COUNSELLING,MEDITATIONAND
God is that awareness which is the absolute, universal and divine YOGA
reality behind and within all Creation and all Creatures. People who AWARENESSBASEDCOGNITIVE
believethatGodisasupremebeinghowever,andnotasupremeand THERAPY(ABCT)
absolute awareness, are forced to believe that God made or AwarenessorMindfulnessBased

Therapy(MBCT)
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created the world out of nothing. Atheistic scientists, on the other

hand,stillseekanalternativeexplanationofhowtheuniverseandall
things came to be. For Creationists the answer to the question of
how things came to be is some Big Being they call God. For
scientists it is some cosmic event they call the Big Bang. Both are FURTHERESSAYSANDBOOKSBY
PETERWILBERG
badly mistaken. A theist is someone who believes that God is an
existing being that has or possesses an omniscient awareness. An
atheistdeniestheexistenceofsuchabeing.Modernscienceclaims FURTHERPRACTICESOF
AWARENESS
that awareness can be reduced to the byproduct, property or
functionofsomeexistingthing,likethehumanbrain.Whattheyare BasicMeditationalAwarenessPractices
actually claiming is that awareness can be reduced to or explained PracticingSittingasMeditation
by some particular thing we are aware of. Yet there is another MeditatingAwarenessasSpace
paradoxheretoconsidermoredeeply.Forsurelyjusttobeawareof ExpandingSpatialAwareness
something, to perceive it andbecapableofobservingandstudying 10StepsFromBeingAwaretoBeing
Awareness
it,alreadyassumestherealityofawarenessassuch?Thustoseeka IntroducingotherstoTheAwareness
cause for awareness in any thing we are aware of the brain for PrincipleanditsBasicPractices
MicroMeditations
example is like seeking a cause for a dream, or for the whole
experienceofdreamingassuch,inoneparticularthingwedreamof.
This is patent absurdity. But it is an absurdity that has yet to be THENEWYOGAOFAWARENESS
clearly pointed out. The Awareness Principle does so. For its 1st
Principle of Awareness is simply that Awareness as such is the 1st PowerPointPresentation
Principle of all things. Why? Because awareness cannot in
principlebeexplainedbyorreducedtoanythingorbeingweare
awareof.ThatiswhyIprefertousethetermawarenessratherthan Wilberg
consciousness. Consciousness is awareness of something.
Awareness on the other hand is consciousness as such pure
consciousness.
This is not just a philosophical or semantic difference. The

thingsyouareconsciousorawareofmayincludeyourreflectionson

orfeltsenseofthewordsyouhavebeenreading,bodilysensations LookInside
or needs such as hunger or thirst, your thoughts and feelings, the
basicmoodortoneoffeelingyoufindyourselfin,yourperceptions

of the room around you and the objects within it, things that are
concerning you or challenges that you face in your current life,
memories of the past or anticipations of the future etc. You may be
consciousorawareofanyorallofsuchthings.Yettheawarenessas
suchisnotanyofthosethings.Tounderstandthis,justthinkofthe
spaceyouaresittinginandtheobjectsinit.Thespacecontainsyour PETER
body and those objects but is not itself a body or object. Similarly, WILBERG
the awareness of a need, desire, sensation or impulse, feeling or

thoughtisnotitselfaneedordesire,sensationorimpulse,feelingor
thought.
This principle is one of the most important Principles of Clicktogoto

AwarenessthatleadsustowhatIcallThePracticeofAwareness.Let PeterWilberg's
homepage
us take one example. The awareness of a thought is not itself a
thought. Therefore it is something innately free of thought. Often
when people talk about meditation, particularly Buddhist sitting
meditation or Zen, they are caught up in the idea that to meditate
properlyandachieveahigher,moreenlightenedstateofawareness
they must stop thinking. Even the Zen masters thought so. The
JapanesemasterDogensaidthatZenisallaboutfindingtheanswer
toasinglequestion.ThequestionasheputitwasHowdoyouthink
notthinking?Theanswertoitissimplerthanmostpeopleimagine
namelythatthereisnoneedinthefirstplacetothinknotthinking.
Allweneedtodoistosimplybeawareofourthoughts.Forthough
thoughts and thinking occur within awareness, the awareness of
themisnotitselfathoughtorthoughtprocess.Thetruequestionis
notHowtothinknotthinking.
Thetruequestionishownottothinkthinkingbuthowtosimply
be aware of our thoughts and thinking, knowing that awareness of
ourthoughtsandourthinkingissomethinginnatelyandentirelyfree
ofthoughtsandthinking.Likewise,ourawarenessofadesireisnot
itselfadesireandthussomethinginnatelyfreeofdesire.Thusthere
is no need to suppress any desires to be free of them. Let me say
that again, there is no need to stop thinking or to stop having
needs, impulses and desires, in order to be free of them for
awareness as such is innately free of any thing we are aware of
whetheraneed,impulse,desire,feelingorthought.
IdefineTheAwarenessPrincipleasanewfoundationalprinciple
for science, philosophy, psychology, religion and life. It is a new
foundational principle for science because it recognises that the
starting point of scientific investigation the most fundamental
scientificfactisnottheobjectiveexistenceofaworldofbodies
inspaceandtimebutsubjectiveawarenessofsuchauniverse.Itisa
newfoundationalprincipleofphilosophybecauseitrecognisesthat
awarenessofexistenceorbeingispriortoandthereforetranscends
all existing things all beings. It is a new foundational principle of
psychologybecauseitargueshow,inprinciple,awarenesscannotbe
either the byproduct of any thing we are aware of, or the private
propertyofanyselforbeingweareawareof.Itisanewfoundational
principle of religion because it allows us to recognise that God
indeed does not exist as a supreme being with awareness, but is
awarenessandthereforetheultimaterealitybehindallthings.Thus
just as there can, in principle, be nothing outside of space or
before time (the problem of Big Bang theory) so there can in
principlebenothingoutsideawareness,nothingoutsideGod.
Finally,TheAwarenessPrincipleisanewprincipleoflife.Forthe
basic Principle of Awareness leads to a new type of yoga or
PracticeofAwarenessonewhichliberatesourconsciousnessfrom
attachment to any thing we are aware of. It does so not simply by
repetitious talk of nonattachment or mindfulness, as if these
words were mantras but instead by clearly explaining and re
minding us of a basic and fundamental principle: namely that the
awarenessofaneed,impulse,desire,feelingorthoughtisnotitselfa
need,impulse,desire,feelingorthought,andisthereforeinnatelyor
inherently free of any thing we are aware of. The awareness of any
thingisnotitselfanythingatall.Yetthefactthatawarenessisno
thing does not mean that it is nothing. On the contrary, it is what
makes awareness more real than anything. Awareness, then, is not
anything. And yet, awareness, ultimately, is everything. For there is
nothing no thing that is not a shape taken by awareness, a
manifestation of awareness and an individualised portion of that
ultimateallpervasiveawarenessthatisGod.
Put simply, the Awareness Principle recognises, in principle,

three fundamental truths. The first fundamental truth is that
awarenessassuchisnothingandcannotbereducedtoanything
weareawareof.Thesecondfundamentaltruthisthatawarenessis
everything.Thethird,nolessfundamentaltruth,isthateverythingis
an awareness. A thought or feeling for example, is not just some
thing we are aware of. It in turn is an awareness of something else.
We take it for granted of course, that human beings are not just
thingswehappentobeawareof.Insteadweunderstandthateach
human being is themselves an aware being. That is not to say that
humanbeingsoranybeingssimplyhaveorpossessawareness.
Rather, like every atom or cell, animal or plant, rock or tree, every
human being is an awareness. That is not to say that atomic,
molecular or cellular awareness has the same character as human
awareness. Yet the human body is an organic symphony of the
awarenessthatconstituteseachofitsatomandmolecules,cellsand
organs. And the human being is a unique and everchanging
constellation of different tones and textures, movements and
directions,patternsandqualitiesofawareness.
Totrulybeawareofanotherhumanbeingistosensetheunique
tones and qualities of awareness which shape and colour their
experienceoftheworldandotherpeople.Whenwespeakofanother
human being as warm or cool, close or distant, closed or
open,lightorheavy,brightordull,rigidorflexible,solidor
airy, icy or fiery we are not merely describing them in
metaphoricaltermsdescribingoursenseofapersonssoulwith
words deriving from sensory qualities of things. Instead we are
giving expression to innate sensual qualities of their awareness or
soul and of awareness or soul as such. It is not that sensory
qualitiesofthingsbecomemeremetaphorsforsoulqualities.Rather
itistheseverysensualqualitiesofawarenessorsoulsoulqualities
thatfindexpressioninthesensoryqualitiesofallthings.TheWorld
of Awareness is the soul world lying behind and beyond our
physical world and life. There, as in our dreams, the qualities of
awareness or soul qualities that colour our moods and come to
expression as sensory phenomena and their qualities a dark or
black mood being perceived as a dark or black cloud for example.
Similarlyaeuphoricfeelingoflevityorbeingupliftedmaytranslate
itself into a dream of our body levitating or flying. What we
experience as our dream body is nothing but our eternal soul body
as such. This is not our objective physical body our body as
perceivedfromwithout,butourbodyasweareawareofitandfeelit
fromwithinourinwardlyfeltorsubjectivebody.Whatwecallthe
soul is our inwardly felt body essentially a a body of awareness
madeupofsensualshapes,tonesandtexturesofawareness.
Ourmostdirectandimmediateinnerawarenessofourbodiesis
imbued with tangible elemental qualities ranging from dense
solidity or rigidity to watery fluidity, airy diffuseness, spacious
expansiveness or fiery vitality. It is such elemental soul qualities
that the sages of the past knew as the true meaning of the five
elements understanding them as both basic elements of nature
and our own human soul nature. Elemental qualities of awareness
findexpressionnotonlyinourimmediateproprioceptiveawareness
ofourownbodiesbutconstitutethesoulofallbodiesnomatter
whether these be dreamt or physical, bodies of people or bodies of
seemingly inanimate, insentient or unaware things. Our physical
bodiesthemselvesarebutpatternsofatomic,molecularandcellular
awareness.Thoughtheirhumanphysicalformmaydecomposewhen
wedie,theawarenessthatimbueseveryatomofthemdoesnot.The
individualcombinationsofsoulqualitiesthatshapeoursenseofself
and imbue our body with its unique form survive after death in the
form of the soul body itself. This remains perceptible in the soul
world the world of awareness even without physical form. Each
nightittakesnonphysicalforminourdreamsnotonlyintheform
of our dreamt body as such, but as the entire body of our dream
environmentandeveryotherbodywithinit.Justasourentiredream
environmentisthelargerbodyofourdreamingawareness,soisour
entirewakingworldthelargerbodyofourwakingawarenessitself
partofamultidimensionalWorldofAwarenessthatweremainlargely
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Introduction
In Western philosophy and psychology, as in practices of Home
psychotherapyandcounselling,thenatureofanindividualsmental,
emotional, sensory and somatic experiencing may be looked at,
TakingTimetoBeAware
looked into, communicated and discussed. However the basic
question of who or what constitutes the nature of the self that is ThePracticeofAwareness
experiencing or looking at or into their experiencing (the WhoorWhatistheExperiencingSelf?

subject or introspector) is largely ignored. Instead a basic WelcometotheWorldofAwareness
unthoughtassumptionpervadesbotheverydaylanguageandthatof
therapeutic or counselling discourse and dialogue. This is the
assumptionthatpersonalpronounssuchasIandyou(asusedin Presuppositions
such phrases as I felt, I experienced or How do you feel
about? / How did you experience?) denote some preexisting Principle'
self or identity or who separate from what it experiences. The TheAwarenessPrincipleassole'Theory

ofEverything'
implication is that the I or you that does, thinks, feels or
experiences one thing is the same I that does, thinks, feels or Awarenessasthenew1stPrincipleof
Science
experiences another. Even a question as common and simple as
Howareyou?therefore,farfrombeingneutral,carrieswithitand Principle
demandsfromtheonequestionedatypeofanswerthat,byusingthe
word I, conforms with and reinforces the assumption of a self 'Unconscious'
separate and apart from its experience. The more basic assumption Awareness,Spaceand'Spirituality'
here is that experiencing in all its modes mental and emotional,
sensoryandsomaticistheprivatepropertyofasubject,self,ego
person or who, understood as unchanging Identity, You
dentity,Shedentity,HedentityorWedentity. TheUltimateMetaphysicsofAwareness
QuestionsandAnswers
What fails to come to awareness here is any clear distinction Summary
betweenthiswho,understoodasasingularexperiencingself or I
Summary2
and something quite different the experienced self in all it
diversity. Thus the frequently used term selfawareness remain
ambiguous without this distinction leaving it unclear as to COUNSELLING,MEDITATIONAND
YOGA
whetheritrefertotheawarenessorexperienceofaparticularselfor
identitywhatcanbetermedanexperiencedselfortotheselfthat THERAPY(ABCT)
isawareand'experiencing'(the'experiencingself').
Therapy(MBCT)
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That is why the frequently used term 'selfawareness' both

totally confuses and leaves totally unthought the relation between
anyexperiencedselfandanexperiencingself.Andyetthisquestion
is a central one because it bears on another asyet unthought
question of great significance in both life and therapy. On the other FURTHERESSAYSANDBOOKSBY
PETERWILBERG
handthemereuseofthewordIindescribingexperience("'I'think,
feelorexperienceZ")assumestheexistenceofanexperiencingego
FURTHERPRACTICESOF
or'I',self,'subject'thatmerely'has'or'possesses'awarenessasits AWARENESS
privateproperty.
This brings us to a basic question that has long been a part of BodilyandSpatialAwareness
Easternphilosophical thought, yet still remains wholly unthought in MeditatingAwarenessasSpace
the theory of Western psychology and thus also in the Western ExpandingSpatialAwareness
rooted practices of psychotherapy and counselling who or what AspectsofthePracticeofAwareness
constitutes the nature of any aware or experiencing self and what Awareness
isitsrelationtoanyexperiencedselfthatthereisanawarenessof? IntroducingotherstoTheAwareness
MicroMeditations
1.TheDebateSurroundingaBasicQuestion
Forovertwothousandyearsasingle,simpleyetbasicquestionhas
been constantly debated among and between Hindu and Buddhist OURSPACIOUSBODYOFAWARENESS
thinkers. Countless sutras and tantras and the most convoluted PowerPointPresentation
argumentshavebeendevotedtoit.
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Reality consists of things experienced in awareness, including our

experiencedsenseofself.ThebasicquestionIrefertois:
WHOORWHATISTHEEXPERIENCINGSELF?

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Summarised briefly and coarsely, the Buddhist answer to this

questions is that there simply is no 'experiencer' or experiencing
Self. There is just experiencing and beyond that, an ultimate
realitybeyondexperiencingpureEmptinessorNothingness.

TheHinduansweragainsummarisedmostbrieflyandcoarselyis
that the 'Self' as such is the experiencer, and that since all PeterWilberg BOOKSBY
PETER
experiencing belongs to the Self, the Self alone understood as WILBERG
identicalwithBrahmanorShivaisultimatereality.
YethowcanweknowofanysuchSelfexceptthroughanexperience
of it? And who then is the experiencer of this Self? Another higher
Self?Ifsohowever,thentheinitialquestionreoccurshowcanwe
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know of any such Self except through an experience of it, thus PeterWilberg's
homepage
reducingtheSelfasexperiencertoanexperiencedself?
Ananswertoaquestionthatraisesthesameveryquestioninthis
casethequestionWhoistheexperiencerisknownasregressive
leadingtoaninfiniteregresstotheinitialquestion,whichthusfinds
no final answer. Only through the Advaitic philosophies of Adi
Shankaracharya and Sri Abhinavagupta did the first rays of light
begintoshineonthisageoldquestion.Refinedthroughtheprismof
whatIcallTheAwarenessPrincipletheyofferanewanswertothis
oldestofquestions.
Toexperiencesomethingistobeawareofit.Thenewanswertothe
questionWho(orwhat)istheexperiencer?Isthatawarenessis the
experiencer not awareness of anything in particular, of any
particularthingthatisexperienced,butawarenessassuch or pure
awareness. The distinction between awareness as such and
anythingweexperienceorareawareofisafundamentalone.Itis
asbasicandclearasthedistinctionbetweendreamingassuchand
anythingwedreamof,betweenamirrorandanyimagesreflectedin
it, or between empty space and any objects in it. A mirror is an
analogy of that pure awareness which remainsforeverdistinctfrom
anythingweseeexperienceinit.Similarlyspaceisananalogyof
pureawarenessbeingbothinseparableandyetalsoforeverdistinct
from anything experienced within it. Indeed space is more than a
mere analogy of pure awareness it is itself nothing but a spatial
field of awareness, that which first allows things to be experienced
aspresentorabsent,existingornotexisting.
Withoutawarenessofreality,howcanrealityexist?
SriRamanaMaharshi
The question is a rhetorical one, for it leads necessarily to the

conclusion that awareness is in principle or a priori a more
fundamentalrealitythananyrealityweareawareofbeingthepre
condition for and therefore prior to existence as such. Hence the
sayingofAbhinavagupta:
Thebeingofallthingsthatarerecognisedinawareness[including
theirselfbeing]inturndependsonawareness.
Yet it was Shankaracharya who was the first to urge against

understandingtheexperiencerastheSelfinanarrowsenseasthe
egoicselforI.Thushewarnedagainstthetendencytolinguistically
personalise experience to think and speak of what I or you
experience, or of my or your experience. For he understood that
theegoicIconstantlyseekstopossessexperienceasitsownas
itsprivateorpersonalpropertyanddoessoprimarythroughuseof
theverywordIintheactofspeech.
WheredotheinsightsofAdvaitaandShankacharayahowever,leave
thenotionoftheSelforAtmanasopposedtotheegoorAhamkara
thelatterbeingaselfdefinedandreinforcedbyitsveryuseofthe
terms I and my? The resounding resolution to this question is
announced in the first of the Shiva Sutras of Vasugupta, the
foundational scripture or tantra of Kashmir Shaivism. In a single
compound noun (Chaitanyatman) it is effectively declared that the
essential nature of the Self is itself nothing but awareness as such.
TheSelf,thereforeisnotsomepreexistentbeingorexperiencerthat
happens to have haveor possess awareness. On the contrary, the
Selfisawarenessassuchorpureawareness(Chit).
In the light of the Shiva Sutras therefore, there is no longer any

contradiction between the old Hindu maxim that the Self is the
experiencer and the highest reality and the recognition that
Awareness is the experiencer.ForasstatedinShivaSutras1.1, the
essentialnatureoftheSelfasopposedtotheegoIS Awareness.
Awareness then is the experiencing self a self quite distinct from
boththeegoandfromanyexperiencedself.TheBuddhistsareright
in understanding that every such experienced self is is no self
beingforeverconstitutedandalteredbythefluxofexperiencing.Yet
behind all experiencing and all experienced selves lies that
awarenesswhichistheexperiencingself.
2.TheSearchfortheUltimateMantra
Whatdoesallthismeanforusinpracticeandinourlives?
Throughout the millennia in which the basic question was explored

and debated, there was also a continuous search to refine an
ultimate sutra that would serve also as an ultimate mantra a
precisely WORDED awareness or Vikalpa guaranteed to serve as
bothliberatorandprotectorofanultimate,WORDLESSawareness.
Thesearchbysages,gurusandacharyasforthisultimatelyprecise
mantricwordingorformulationcanbecomparedtothesearchby
physicists for an ultimate mathematical solution or 'formula' by
whichallphenomenoncanbeexplained.Itisanongoingsearchthat
demandsasmuchlinguisticprecisionandrigourasphysicsrequires
mathematicalprecisionandrigour.
InmywritingsonTheAwarenessPrincipleIhaveevolvedavarietyof
very precise linguistic formulations designed not only to offer
intellectual answers to philosophical questions but to serve as life
transformingmantra.
To begin I wrote of the fundamental distinction between all we

experienceorareawareofontheonehandandawarenessassuch
ontheother.Themessagewasthattherewasawaytopassfroma
state of simply being aware (experiencing) to identifying with
beingawarenessassuch.Themantrathusreads:
fromBeingAwaretoBeingAwareness
LaterevolvedanewmantraThereisanawarenessof.Theintent
of this mantra was to serve as way of reminding ourselves, in any
situationandinthecourseofanyexperiencethatanythingweare
experiencing inwardly or outwardly is distinct from the pure
awarenessofexperiencingit.Themantraalsoservestoremovethe
possessivelyegoicpersonalpronounsIandmyfromthelanguage
in which we think and express experience thus also transforming
theverywayweexperiencebothselfandworld.Forthereisaworld
of different between an experience that is accompanied by the
habitualthoughtthatIexperiencethis(forexampleIfeelXandan
experience which is accompanied by the mantra There is an

awarenessofexperiencingthis.
Occasionsfortheuseofthismantraareinfinite.Ifthereisanytype
of experience occurring whatsoever whether of seeing, hearing,
feeling or thinking something instead of saying to ourselves I
see/hear/feel/think this or that we renounce the word I and both
thinkandsaytoourselves:
No,itisnotthatIsee,hear,feelorthinkthisorthat.InsteadThere
is simply an awareness of this that is seen, heard, felt or thought
justasthereissimplyanawarenessofexperiencingourownselfin
a particular way. This self that is experienced in a particular way is
precisely that an experienced self and not the experiencer the
experiencingself.
As a result of recalling the mantra the mental recognition that

There is an awareness of experiencing this or There is an
awareness of experiencing this self it becomes possible to identify
with that very awareness to BE IT. Being Awareness that
awareness which is the experiencing self is what saves us from
identifying with any experience and with any experience of self that
accompaniesit.ThemantraThereisanawarenessofthusallows
us both to hold on to the fundamental distinction, to avoid
identifyingwithanyexperiencedself,and,atthesametime,prevents
theegoicselffromusingfromusingthehabitualwordItoseizeand
possessasitsowntheentirerealmofexperiencing.
3.ANewMantra
There is another, yet simpler mantra by which the ego with its
constantuseofthewordI,itsimplicitclaimtobetheexperiencer
and with this its constant tendency to thereby narcissistically
personaliseallexperiencingcanbesuccessfullycircumventedand
transcended.
Thissimplestofmantrais:
ITexperiencesthis.

By IT is meant that Supreme, Universal and Divine Awareness
awareness as such or pure awareness which is at the same time
thetrueessenceoftheexperiencingSelf.
The use of this new mantra is similar to the mantra There is an

awarenessof.Foritalsoallowsusafterorinthecourseofany
experienceofanynaturetorenouncethepersonalpronounIand
insteadremindourselvesofandrecognisethetruththatitisnotthe
personalIthatistheexperiencerbutratherITthatultimateand
transpersonal reality which is the Supreme, Universal and Divine
Awareness.
Formulated in a progressively more elaborated way the mantra

reads:
1.ITexperiencesthis.
2.NotIbutITexperiencesthis.(forexamplepleasureorpain)
3. Not I but IT experiences this current sense of self (the

experienced
selfasopposedtotheexperiencingself)
3.ItisnotIexperiencingthisbutITexperiencingthisthroughand
asme.(forexample,ItisnotthatIormeexperiencingpleasureor
pain,butratherITexperiencingpleasureorpainthroughandasme).
4.Ingeneral:ItnotIoryou,himorherthatexperiencesthisor
thatbutIT(pureawareness)
that experiencing ITSELF (IT's SELF) through and as I or you,
himorher.

Thefirstformulationofthemantrahowever,remainsthemostpotent
seedorbijaofallfurtherandmoreelaborateformulations.
A mantra is a guarding thought. To transcend the ego and to attain

andprotectastateofpureawarenessoneneedonlytorenouncethe
wordIandtothink:ITexperiencesthisorITisexperiencingthis.
Doingsowecancometoinstantlyrecognisethetruenatureofthe
experiencer neither as a mere realm of Emptiness nor as an I
which has or possesses awareness but as IT that Universal,
SupremeandDivineAwarenesswhichistheveryessenceorheart
oftheSelf.

Because this awarenessreality, itself free from thought, exists as
thesourceofallthoughts,itiscalledHeart.Howtoknowit?Tobeit,
asitis,thoughtfree,intheHeart.
SriRamanaMaharshi
TheformulationItexperiencesthisliketheformulationThereisan
awareness of experiencing this are specific and precise mantric
wordingswhichmentallyrecalledandrecognisedcaninstantly
evoke a wordless, bodily transformation of all that we experience.
That is their power and purpose as mantra as guarding thoughts.
These are important because the realm of experiencing is itself not
onlyreflectedinthoughtbutalsoshapedbythought.
Experience including our everchanging experience of self the

experiencedselfhasquiteadifferentqualityaccordingtowhether
thethoughtthatpervadesandshapesitisIamexperiencingthisor
ITisexperiencingthis,IamexperiencingmyselfinthiswayorIT
isexperiencingmeinthisway.

4.FinalNote
BeingAwarenessbeingITisthehighestBliss.
Thisisthe essential meaningofthatmost central ofHinduSanskrit

philosophicalterms:SatChitAnanda(BeingAwarenessBliss).

5.Postscript
I have not even bothered here to address the new, current and
supposedlyscientificanswertothequestionofwhoorwhatisthe
experiencer?namelythattheexperiencerisnothingbutthebrain.
For it is in principle sheer philosophical and linguistic muddle
headedness to think that anything experienced (any object of
experience) can possibly be the experiencer (the experiencing
subjectorawareness). Instead Awareness alone and as such is
thesoleandultimateexperiencer,andinthissensealsotheultimate
essenceof'Self'.
Allowingawarenessalonetoact,see,moveandspeakus
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This is the first in a two-part series that presents a summary of the Vedic theory of consciousness within a framework
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of contemporary scientific concepts.
Consciousness is described as the ultimate mystery in ancient Indian texts, and its study is lauded as the highest science.
But until recently, the question of consciousness was considered to lie outside of the scope of science and, consequently,
the references in the Indian texts to consciousness have not been examined for their significance to the history of science
in India. But before a chronology of the ideas related to consciousness can be developed, it is essential to understand
their scientific significance and separate what can be correlated with the emerging insights of cognitive science from the
more speculative philosophical and religious thought.
Scientific attitudes towards consciousness have changed due to the recent advances in neurophysiology and because
modern physics and computer science are confronted with the question of the nature of the observer. In many ways, the
study of consciousness is centre-stage in the discussions of modern science. On the other hand, a considerable part of
Indian thought is devoted to the question of consciousness.
Although a part of this tradition deals with philosophical issues, there are other aspects, as in yoga and tantra, that deal
with structural aspects. Books such as Yogavasistha and Tripurarahasya claim to describe the nature of consciousness.
The same is generally true of various works on yoga, the Upanishads, and even the earlier Vedic texts.
The task for the historian of science is to sketch an evolution of the ideas related to consciousness, and see how this
sketch fits with the development of other scientific ideas. Since Indian works related to consciousness have not yet been
systematically examined, it is perhaps premature to write such a history.
Note that there are intriguing parallels between the insights of the early Vedic theory of consciousness and those of
quantum mechanics and neuroscience. In the Vedic theory, which dates back to at least 2000 BC, one views awareness in
terms of the reaction that the hardware of the brain provides to an underlying illuminating or awareness principle called
the self. This approach allows one to separate questions of the tools of awareness, such as vision, hearing and the mind,
from the person who obtains this awareness.
The person is the conscious self, who is taken to be a reservoir of infinite potential. But the actual capabilities of the
animal are determined by the neural hardware of its brain. This hardware may be compared to a mirror. The hardware of
the human brain represents the clearest structure to focus the self, which is why humans are able to perform in ways that
other animals cannot. Within the framework of this theory, humans and other animals are persons and their apparent
behavioural distinctions arise from the increased cloudedness of the neural hardware of the lower animals. Self-
awareness is an emergent phenomenon which is grounded on the self and the associations stored in the brain.
From a modern scientific viewpoint, living systems are dynamic structures that are defined in terms of their interaction
with their environment. Their behaviour is taken to reflect their past history in terms of instincts. Living systems can also
be defined recursively in terms of living sub-systems.
Thus, for ants, one may consider their society, an ant colony, as a living superorganism; in turn, the ant's sub-systems are
also living. Such a recursive definition appears basic to all life. Machines, on the other hand, are based on networking of
elements so as to instrument a well-defined computing procedure, and they lack a recursive self definition.
The reality of consciousness is evident not only from the fact that responses are different in sleepwalking and awake
states, but from the considerable experimentation with split-brain patients.
The experiments of Kornhuber indicate that it takes about eight-tenths of a second for the readiness potential to build up
in the brain before voluntary action begins. According to Libet, the mind extrapolates back in time by about half a second
or so the occurrence of certain events. So consciousness is not an epiphenomenon. As it possesses a unity, it should be
described by a quantum mechanical wave function.
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Eugene Wigner argued that the laws of quantum mechanics may not apply to conscious agents. In a variant of the setting
of the Schrodinger cat experiment, he visualised two conscious agents, one inside the box and another outside. If the
inside agent makes an observation that leads to the collapse of the wave function, then how is the linear superposition of
the states for the outside observer to be viewed? Wigner argued that in such a case, with a conscious observer as part of
the system, linear superposition must not apply.
This result, now called the Wigner's friend paradox, and others have led many quantum theorists to argue that basic
advances in physics would eventually require one to include consciousness in the scientific framework. The Vedic system,
which was an earlier attempt to unify knowledge, was confronted by similar paradoxes. It is well known that
Schrodinger's development of quantum mechanics was inspired, in part, by Vedanta, the full-blossomed Vedic system.
His debt to the Vedic views is expressed in an essay he wrote in 1925 before he created his quantum theory:
Schrodinger used Vedic ideas also in his immensely inuential book What is Life? which played a significant role in the
development of modern biology.
According to his biographer Walter Moore, there is a clear continuity between Schrodinger's understanding of Vedanta
and his research:
In view of this connection between the Vedic system and quantum mechanics and the fact that quantum mechanical
models of consciousness are being attempted, it is important to see how the Vedic philosophers developed their
classificatory models of consciousness. A summary of one classificatory model is the main focus of this piece.
The question of the history of ideas related to the notion of consciousness in ancient India will also be touched upon
briefly in this paper.
Self, biology, psychology
Neural network models have been used by cognitive scientists to model behaviour.
The limitations of neural models have been highlighted by Sacks and others who point out that these models do not take
into account the notion of self.
The limitations of current theories of psychology were well-summarised by the distinguished Canadian psychologist
Melzack :
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Cognitive abilities arise from a continuing reflection on the perceived world, and this question of reflection is central to
the brain-mind problem, the measurement problem of physics, and the problem of determinism and free-will. A dualist
hypothesis to explain brain-mind interaction or the process of reflection meets with the criticism that this violates the
conservation laws of physics. On the other hand, a brain-mind identity hypothesis, with a mechanistic or electronic
representation of the brain processes, does not explain how self-awareness could arise. At the level of ordinary
perception, there exists a duality and complementarity between an autonomous (and reflexive) brain and a mind with
intentionality.
Complementarity
The notion of self seems to hinge on an indivisibility akin to that found in quantum mechanics. The wave-particle duality
encountered in quantum phenomena led Neils Bohr in 1927 to introduce the notion of complementarity.
Complementarity is the principle that description of reality in any of the mutually contradictory pictures is incomplete;
but between them such pictures form a complete, complementary description. This principle also presupposes that
experiments can be unambiguously described only in classical terms.
Considering the question of logical foundations of biology, Bohr concluded that life (and also cognitive) processes are
likewise subject to complementarity. The complementarity exhibited by life may be expressed most fundamentally
between structure and behaviour.
Bohr suggested an interesting analogy between neural (thought) and quantum processes. The instantaneous state of a
thought may be compared with the position of a particle, whereas the direction of change of that thought may be
compared with the particle's momentum. This is described by Bohr as follows:
There is also a similarity between the thought process and the classical limit of the quantum theory. The logical process
corresponds to the most general type of thought process, as the classical limit corresponds to the most general quantum
process. In the logical process, we deal with classifications. These classifications are conceived as being completely
separate but related by the rules of logic, which may be regarded as the analogue of the causal laws of classical physics. In
any thought process, the component ideas are not separate but flow steadily and indivisibly.
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An attempt to analyse them into separate parts destroys or changes their meanings. Yet there are certain types of
concepts, among which are those involving the classification of objects, in which we can, without producing any essential
changes, neglect the indivisible and incompletely controllable connection with other ideas. Complementarity is required
at different levels of description.
But just as one might use a probabilistic interpretation instead of complementarity for atomic descriptions, a
probabilistic description may also be used for cognitive behaviour. However, such a probabilistic behaviour is inadequate
to describe the behaviour of individual agents, just as notions of probability break down for individual objects.
As an epistemological principle, complementarity has been criticised for not providing a unifying picture. But from an
operational point of view, complementarity, by considering all kinds of responses, becomes a very useful approach. When
analysed in terms of local interactions, the framework of quantum mechanics suffers from other paradoxical
characteristics. This shows up in non-local correlations that appear in the manner of action at a distance.
To be continued...
This piece was first published as a paper, titled On the Science of Consciousness in Ancient India, in Indian Journal of
History of Science (vol. 32, 1997, 105-120), and has been republished here with permission.
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The Vedic notion of consciousness appears already to be in place by the time of the Rig Veda, conservatively dated to the
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late third or early second millennia BC. The Rig Veda and the other Vedic books do not present a logical resolution of the
paradox of consciousness but assert that knowledge is of two types: it is superficially dual but at a deeper level it has a
unity.
The Vedic theory implies a complementarity by insisting that the material and the conscious are aspects of the same
transcendent reality. The modern scientific tradition is like the Vedic tradition since it acknowledges contradictory or
dual descriptions but seeks unifying explanations. The Vedic approach to knowledge was based on the assumption that
there exist equivalences of diverse kinds between the outer and the inner worlds. This prompted a deep examination of
the human mind.
These examinations were also considered within the frameworks of Vaisnavism as well as Shaivism. Here we speak of
only one specific development that took place in Kashmir and has come to be known as Kashmir Shaivism. The beginning
of this specific tradition is seen in the Shiva Sutras of Vasugupta (c. 800 AD). The Shiva Sutras have aphorisms such as:
i. caitanyamatma (consciousness is the self)
ii. vidyasamutthane svabhavike khecari sivavastha (The knowledge of one's innate nature leads to Siva's state: it is like
wandering in the sky of consciousness)
Shiva is the name for the absolute or transcendental consciousness. Ordinary consciousness is bound by cognitive
categories related to conditioned behaviour. By exploring the true spring wells of ordinary consciousness one comes to
recognise its universal (Shiva). This brings the further recognition that one is not a slave (pasu) of creation but its master
(pati).
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According to Sankhya, reality may be represented in terms of 25 categories. These categories form the substratum of the
classification in Shaivism. These categories are:
(i) five elements of materiality, represented by earth, water, fire, air, ether;
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(ii) five subtle elements , represented by smell, taste, form, touch, sound;
(iii) five organs of action, represented by reproduction, excretion, loco-motion, grasping, speech;
(iv) five organs of cognition, related to smell, taste, vision, touch, hearing;
(v) three internal organs, being mind, ego, and intellect; and inherent nature (prakrti), and consciousness (purusa).
These categories dene the structure of the physical world and of agents and their minds. But this classification is not rich
enough to describe the processes of consciousness as it is mentioned as a single category. Shaivism enumerates further
characteristics of consciousness:
(vi) sheaths or limitations of consciousness, being time (kaala), space (niyati), selectivity (raga), awareness (vidya),
creativity (kala), self-forgetting (maya) and
(vii) five principles of the universal experience, which are correlation in the universal experience (sadvidya, suddhavidya),
identification of the universal (svara), the principle of being (sadakhya), the principle of negation and potentialisation
(sakti), and pure awareness by itself (siva)
The first 25 categories relate to an everyday classification of reality where the initial five characteristics relate to the
physical inanimate world, and the next 18 dene the characteristics of the conscious organism. The inherent nature of the
individual is called prakrti while purusa represents self.
The next 11 categories characterise different aspects of consciousness which is to be understood in a sense different to
that of mental capacities (categories 21, 22, 23). One of these mental capacities is akin to artificial intelligence of current
computer science, which is geared to finding patterns and deciding between hypotheses. On the other hand, categories 26
through 36 deal with interrelationships in space and time between these patterns and deeper levels of comprehension
and awareness.
Any focus of consciousness must first be circumscribed by coordinates of time and space. Next, it is essential to select a
process (out of the many defined) for attention (category 28). The aspect of consciousness that makes one have a feeling
of inclusiveness with this process, followed later by a sense of alienation is called maya (category 31). Thus maya permits
one, by a process of identification and detachment, to obtain limited knowledge (category 29) and to be creative (category
30).
How does consciousness ebb and flow between an identity of self and an identity with the processes of the universe?
According to Shaivism, a higher category (number 32) permits comprehension of oneness and separation with equal
clarity. On the other hand category 33 allows a visualisation of the ideal universe. Category 33 allows one to move beyond
mere comprehension into a will to act. The final two categories deal with the potential energy that leads to continuing
transformation (35) and pure consciousness by itself (36). Pure awareness is not to be understood as similar to everyday
awareness of humans but rather as the underlying schema that the laws of nature express. The laws themselves define
the sakti tattva.
The cognitive categories of Shaivism are of relevance in computer science. At present only a subset of these categories
can be dealt with by the most versatile computing machines. Current research is focused on the lower categories such as
endowing machines with action capacities (as in robotics) and powers of sense perception (as in vision). At the higher
levels, machines can be endowed with some capacity for judgment that typically involves computation of suitably framed
cost functions, or finding patterns, of choosing between hypotheses, but the capacities of concretisation and especially
self-awareness seem to be completely out of the realm of present day computing science.
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Rig Veda 1.164.45 describes that speech and its concomitant cognition is of four kinds. The names of these kinds of
speech are described by Bhartihari (c 450 AD) in his Vakyapadya to be vaikhar, madhyama, pasyant, and para.
Vaikhar represents gross sound; madhyama is the level of mental images; pasyant represents that gestalt or
undifferentiated whole that sounds emerge from in the process of speaking and into which they merge in the process of
hearing; para is the
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Bhartihari argues that reality (sampratisatta) when seen through the window of language reduces to a formal reality
(aupacarik satta). Language can only deal upto the level of pasyant, the gestalts underlying mental constructs, and it
remains limited because para speech lies beyond it.
Bhartihari calls the word or sentence considered an indivisible meaning unit as the sphota. He bases this concept on the
Vedic theory that speech (vak) is a manifestation of the primordial reality. The word-sphota is thus contrasted from
word-sound. Meaning is obtained at a deep level based on the sequence of sounds.
The discovery of a very large number of phonetic symmetries in the first hymn of the Rig Veda that cannot be conceived
to have been deliberately introduced gives support to the thesis that language captures only some of the symmetries that
nature's intelligence can express. Peter Raster summarises this discovery thus:
In our search for phonetic symmetries in the first sukta of the Rig Veda, we examined the occurrence frequencies of more than
50 sound classes. Of these more than 40 sound classes were found with occurrence frequencies which are integral multiples of 8
and more than 20 sound classes with occurrence frequencies which are even integral multiples of 24... Moreover, in many cases,
the occurrence frequencies of phonetically related sound classes form simple integral ratios, for example, the ratio of 2:1
between the frequencies of voiced and voiceless consonants and the ratio of 1:2 between the frequencies of long and short
vowels. Thus, fundamental oppositions of the phonological system are reflected in the quantitative distribution of sounds in the
text... The order which has been found underlying the phonological structure of the text is a hidden order. It cannot be perceived
consciously while reading or listening to the text... Although the order found in the distribution of the sounds in the text is
unfolded sequentially in time, it is in itself not a linear, but a global phenomenon... [and] it is multidimensional.
Bhartihari's theory speaks of a reality richer than the expressive power of any language. Like the observables of quantum
theory, language picks only processes associated with its expressions.
The classificatory systems developed in the Indian tradition do not address the paradoxes of consciousness. Rather,
categories are defined, such as that of universal experience, which can be seen to be explain the complementary nature
of human experience. These categories clearly assign central role to selectivity, or context, and change. The Vedic system
takes the mind to be emergent on the ground of the neural hardware of the brain, but this emergence is contingent on the
principle of the self. In the earliest literature, the gods represent various cognitive centres.
Tantric texts use esoteric diagrams or yantras for their representation. There are other systems which are based on basic
sounds of the alphabet related to fundamental aspects of the mind. Such ideas have been, by tradition, consigned to
philosophy or yoga and tantra. But it is possible, indeed likely, that there is much more than speculative thought in these
models.
The ancient tradition of consciousness study in India, long limited to philosophical studies, remains an unexplored
frontier in the history of science. This is just an introduction to the problem. Further advances in a scientific
understanding of consciousness will lead to a better appreciation of the Indian literature on the subject. One hopes that a
comprehensive chronology of the various developments in the structural models of consciousness will be eventually
produced.
This piece was first published as a paper, titled On the Science of Consciousness in Ancient India, in Indian Journal of
History of Science (vol. 32, 1997, 105-120), and has been republished here with permission.
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TANTRIC VERSE

WHAT ARE THE TENETS OF TANTRA?................................................................................ 4

Jaideva Singh Spanda-Karikas The Divine Creative Pulsation

The Wisdom of Tantra:

A flower for example, is an awareness

As is any thing - from an atom or cell to a

Body, feeling, thought, word, person, or god.

Therefore the simple awareness of a flower is

An awareness of an awareness - not just

An awareness that the flower is, but

An awareness of the awareness

That is the flower

Nothing in the world is not aware.

Every thing we are aware of is itself an awareness.

Every thing we are aware of is part of an awareness world.

Aware of this, our awareness expands to embrace new awareness worlds.

Each of us is nothing but a unique awareness of the world an awareness world.

The very essence of our being is a world embracing awareness.

God is awareness as such - and as such embraces and

Pervades all things and all their worlds,

For they are all awareness worlds.

First, it is a yoga of Awareness.

You are not aware because

Yet when your

Attend also to your awareness of

Or better still, attend to your

When your awareness of things

Feeling the sublime

The free awareness field is a source of

There is awareness of outwardness, of actuality.

Parashiva the very light and lightness

True knowledge is direct AWARENESS.

Truly knowing means BEING AWARE.

Awareness is not just

Awareness is not just

Awareness is not just

Awareness is not just knowing

Awareness is not just

If people get lost in

Thus you may be conscious

Similarly, you may be

Awareness is more than just

How do know you have a body?

It is not some physical thing

Awareness as such - like space - is nothing bodily.

It is not the fleshly body

With what body except this

Your fleshly body is but the

It bears the resonant trace of all

You are all

Who are you?

How can our bodies or brains be the

Thinking is not just having thoughts about things.

Not being aware of the thoughts we have,

Just having thoughts about things, we lose

Just having thoughts about things, we lose direct

Losing direct awareness, we easily confuse our thoughts

Not being aware of our thoughts, we sacrifice direct

Only by being aware of the thoughts we have, can we

The thoughts we have can easily fixate

Being aware of the thoughts we have, they do not

Being aware of our thoughts, a space opens

Reasoning is having thoughts about other thoughts.