I Am This: Reflections on Enlightenment

“I Am This” is a series of thoughts that arose after a profound shift in the way an objectifying brain experiences the world.This shift is commonly thought of as enlightenment, but ultimately it is a brain that has perceived that things, separate existential entities, including the self, have no actual reality but exist only as conceptual overlays.The ordinary human mind is a swirling collage of self-referential memories gathered over a lifetime. Those who live in this worldview are caught in what is experienced as a cause-and-effect reality in which they have choices. They live in the tension between imaginary personal volition and a universe that defies their intellectual abilities to grasp or understand. Most will spend their lives in this shadowland of imaginary separation.There is a profoundly different way to experience being alive in which the mind drifts along, suspended between being subsumed between the sublime joy of simply being in a vast unknown unknowableness and the normal human interaction which is now experienced as a dream. Read more