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THE EMBODIMENT OF OUROBOROS
         The Descendence of Ouroboric Super Consciousness

Go into your own ground
and learn to know yourself there.
Meister Eckhart

Bodhidharma - Note the third eye,
a symbolic representation
of super-consciousness.

Bodhidharma and Ouroboric Super-Consciousness
Bodhidharma, the sixth-century Indian monk famed for bringing Buddhism to China, once meditated for nine years facing a cave wall. Legend has it he tore off his eyelids to maintain his focus and wakefulness, epitomizing what I term as Ouroboros-Consciousness—a heightened and intensified state of super or hype-consciousness that turns inward upon itself in an accellerating feed back loop. Figures like Bodhidharma and other revered saints in Eastern mystical traditions often reach such elevated states of consciousness that they lose touch with their bodily sensations and their immediate environment.
Despite his super-conscious state, Bodhidharma would have been entirely unaware of his physical body or external surroundings, making him poorly equipped to cross a busy New Delhi street. In this case, the unaware fool and the super-conscious saint look similar.

The Embodiment of Ouroboros Consciousness: From Heights to Depths
This chapter explores what it would look like if the Bodhidharmic super-consciousness began to descend into the bodily realm. What internal transformations would occur as this spiraling vortex of ouroboros-consciousness began to permeate our being as body, flowing from the crown of our head down to the tips of our toes?

In the context of Indian chakra philosophy, each chakra—meaning "wheel"—can be understood as a circuit within this spiraling ouroboros consciousness. Within the Vedic system of the seven chakras, the three upper chakras correspond to the subtle realms of mind and soul, while the three lower chakras are associated with the body and the material world. At the center lies the heart chakra, symbolizing a harmonious and loving balance point connecting heaven and earth.
 
Here's a concise walkthrough of my interpretation of these spiraling circuits from top to bottom. Bear in mind, however, that both this representation and the chakra model itself are simplified and should be regarded merely as poetic metaphors rather than precise descriptions in a western scientific sense.
 
Sahasrara – Pure, abstract consciousness
Ajna – Light, vision, intuitive perception, and cognition
Vishuddhi – Sound, expression, and communication
Anahata – Capacity for love and emotional balance
Manipura – Emotional sensations and bodily feelings
Svadhisthana – Sensory and tactile bodily awareness
Muladhara – Fundamental, granular, pixel-like awareness of existence

The Genesis of Ouroboros Consciousness
To encapsulate the odyssey of consciousness, we begin with the premise that awareness has evolved in tandem with biological life itself. Initially, awareness was but a primitive form of consciousness that emerged in correlation with the growing complexity of living organisms. This nascent, body-centric awareness eventually gave rise to higher echelons of consciousness, capable of accessing abstract and immaterial realms—thoughts, imagination, and even soulful experiences beyond the body.

This advanced consciousness developed the capacity to break away from its bodily origins. It began to generate its own dreams and soar like Icarus toward the sun. Empowered by imagination and language, we took on god-like abilities to craft our own worlds. Some of these imaginative constructs even occasionally led to the invention of new tools and social frameworks, enhancing our survival in the external environment.

Ancient yogis and European medieval mystics elevated this feature of consciousness even further, to a level where consciousness ceased focusing on the outer world through the gate of the five senses. Instead, it turned inward, discovering and immersing itself in its own essence. In this abyss, it seemed to lose itself. This could potentially induce megalomania if it were not for the fact that every human, in principle, has the capability to "galacticize" themselves.
 
As elaborated in the chapter Ouroboros Consciousness, these elevated states of mystic consciousness cut ties with bodily sensations, entering into a ceaseless reflective loop with itself. Envision this as a cosmic mirror: an internal universe endlessly reflecting its core essence. This labyrinth of self-reflecting mirrors embodies what we label as Ouroboros Consciousness—a looped state of intense, self-contained conscious 'suchness' or 'isness.'

Focused intently on nurturing this body-transcending super-consciousness, Indian philosophical and yogic traditions held that this non-dual, hyper-conscious state would find its fullest expression in the crown chakra, Sahasrara, the thousand petalled lotus. According to the famous Indian Saint, Ramakrishna, the lowest chakra it could interact with was the heart chakra, Anahata, in a form resembling universal love. When Ramakrishna in old age got cancer, advisors knowledgeable in the scriptures, urged him to allow his divine concentration descend to his body in order to heal it, Ramakrishna replied:

"How can I withdraw the mind from the Lotus Feet of God
and turn it to this worthless cage of flesh and blood?"

Freed from the trappings of the illusory material world and the body as another layer of that illusion, yogis were able to induce deeply concentrated states of Ouroboros Consciousness. It's within this cultural backdrop that the revered saint Ramana Maharshi's proclamation, The body is a disease in a disease, gains its full meaning. We find similar ways of thinking in ancient Greece:

A man is a dream of a shadow
Σκις ναρ νθρωπος
Pindar, Pythian 8.95f.

God Wants to be Human
A central message in this chapter emphasizes a transformative shift away from purely disembodied consciousness. The time has arrived for luminous, expanded consciousness to fully reintegrate into the human body. This pivotal shift occurred symbolically with the incarnation of Jesus, representing God's deliberate choice to become human. But what is God? God is humanity's ultimate projection of its most mysterious and unknown inner aspects—God is consciousness itself. I discovered this truth independently, only later realizing that C.G. Jung had already reached this insight long before. In his profound late treatise, 'Answer to Job,' Jung describes a reverse movement: not man's aspiration to become God, but God's desire to become man.

Jung explains that the light within humanity, despite being smaller, is more concentrated than God's omnipresent form. This intense concentration precisely mirrors what Ouroboros does to consciousness—it intensifies and focuses it. Metaphorically, the newly evolved Ouroboric King of Consciousness must reclaim his throne within the human heart, governing the body comprehensively, from head to toe. However, this throne has never been truly vacant. It was previously occupied either by the cold kings of reason or various manifestations of the seven deadly sins. Yet, the benevolent Ouroboric King does not overthrow these occupants by force; instead, he purifies them with the warmth of his illuminating presence, transforming them into wise counselors.
   
THE FRAGILITY OF NEWLY EVOLVED SURVIVAL SYSTEMS
Nonetheless, profound challenges exist on the journey into embodied, muddy cellular existence. Enhanced survival complexity and expanded response capabilities inevitably come at the cost of increased vulnerability. Evolutionarily speaking, the newest developments are always the most fragile. When applied to our brain—seen as a generator of expanded consciousness—this principle becomes less theoretical and more experiential. We have all felt how swiftly our conscious awareness can diminish under the influence of anger, fear, or any manifestation of the so-called seven deadly sins. 'Normal' consciousness can easily disintegrate metaphorically showed by Jonas getting swallowed by a whale or by the onslaught by dangerous dragons or demons.  Ouroboic consciousness is even more fragile in such instinctual storms of emotions as it is a newer and hence more complex survival system. As children are afraid of trolls, we are in the childhood of super-consciousness.

At the culture-evolutionary stages symbolized by ancient Indian spirituality and medieval European mysticism, the nascent ouroboric consciousness remained highly sensitive to disturbances arising from bodily sensations—ego-driven desires, existential pain, and turbulent emotions. Such internal disruptions could easily destabilize or even sever the delicate, newly emerged "brain-flower" of ouroboric consciousness. Again, as we all experience both in ourselves and in society, it still is prone to fragmentation. However, there might light at the end of this evolutionary tunnel. Slowly the new system of survival learns to survive.
 
As "God" returns to inhabit the human body through the spiral descent of ouroboric consciousness into the physical realm, the introspectively sensed body gradually becomes a beacon of intensified conscious awareness. Yet, when precisely does this transformative colonization occur? Only once consciousness attains sufficient resilience to withstand direct confrontation with the tumultuous, raw nature of bodily sensations. If consciousness is still immature or delicate, encountering the overwhelming intensity of these sensations can risk shattering it—much like a small flame extinguished by a strong gust of wind. Initially, therefore, consciousness needed to maintain a cautious distance from the body, avoiding the risk of being overwhelmed and extinguished prematurely.
   
A weak or undeveloped field of 'god' cannot effectively penetrate the dense layers of inherited pain we all carry. This situation results in repeated cycles of trauma and re-traumatization. In biblical language, the cleansing required by consciousness during its descent is the purification of ancestral sin. Within this context, what precisely constitutes this sin? It is the accumulated biological and bodily pain inherent in the experience of living as an animal aware of its own sensations and existence.
  
Jung's Notion of Individuation
The concept of Ouroboros Consciousness—characterized by an internal universe continually reflecting its essence in a self-replicating loop—finds profound resonance with Jung's notion of 'individuation'.  While Ouroboros Consciousness in its early developmental stages seeks a transcendent state free from bodily constraints, Jung’s individuation emphasizes harmonizing all dimensions of human experience, including the physical body. Although Jung likely embodied a highly developed consciousness himself, he did not explicitly articulate this self-reflective aspect of consciousness as a distinct phenomenon. His focus remained predominantly on the unfolding and integration of the personality rather than explicitly highlighting the radiant consciousness facilitating its growth.
 
In a contemporary exploration of spirituality, Ouroboros Consciousness is invited to re-engage deeply with our bodily interior, aligning closely with Jung's understanding that true individuation requires thorough embodiment. Integrating Ouroboros Consciousness with bodily awareness manifests as a form of divine individuation, uniting ethereal realms with physical existence in a holistic realization of human potential. Here, the celestial mirrors the corporeal, and spirit finds completion not through escape but through profound and intimate engagement with the physical world.

Put on the edge, it is not longer my job to be god.
It is gods job to be me.

God is foolishly in love with me,
it seems he has forgotten heaven and earth
and his happiness and deity,
his entire business seems with me alone.
Eckhart

THE OUROBOIC BODY

In summary, before engaging the pysical world we must first of all enter the realm of our own inner body. Essentially, this signifies a return of consciousness to its primordial roots deeply anchored within our ancient biological architecture. 
Our brain comprises various layers, akin to the rings of a tree. The deeper we delve into this neurological 'tree,' the older and more dormant the systems we uncover.
   
Currently, Ouroboros Consciousness—by virtue of its recursive nature, constantly feeding back into itself—is poised to embark on a conscious journey back to its origins. It does so by vigilantly and consciously 'awaring' the inner, interoceptive realm of bodily sensations. In ever-deepening spirals of self-referential loops, it reverse engineers our entire evolutionary trajectory, traveling layer by layer through the body, back to our most ancient, pre-Cambrian cellular states, and even further, into the elemental stardust that we are made of.

Awareness feels the warmth of the light. Consciousness sees the light in the light. In the exiting journey back home the body becomes a temple lit with the warm light of consious awareness. We will now look at, in detail, how that process takes place. The first thing to point out here is that supreme awareness observed from an academic lens, is almost retarded.

Enlightenment is sudden - Embodied Oruroboric Consciousness is gradual
In most spiritual traditions, enlightenment is described as a sudden event, which makes sense when one considers the nature of feedback phenomena. The moment the microphone nears the speaker, an instantaneous feedback loop erupts. Ouroboros consciousness often manifests in such abrupt fashion.

However, when it comes to this same consciousness descending into the body, the process is gradual, often unfolding over the course of a lifetime. On this thrilling journey of super-aware individuation, we find contentment even in the smallest advancements, for each little step makes today better than yesterday.

Now it's time to probe further into the sensory experiences that occur when we 'dive high to soar deep'.

OUROBOIC CONSIOUSNESS DOES NOT UNDERSTAND ANYTHING

Would I have a God whom I could understand,
I would no longer hold him for God.
Meister Eckhart

There is nothing to understand
Papaji

As introverted super-awareness manifests within the body, one becomes cognizant of an array of internal sensations, many of which defy linguistic and cognitive encapsulation. In the words of Papaji, There is nothing to understand in this state of super-awareness. Instead, using Emanuel Sørensen's terminology, one comes to 'innerstand' sensory signals in a state of pure suchness or isness.
 
In this heightened state, there are no qualifiers—no but, if, when, what, or why. Super-awareness perceives the inner sensory cathedral of the body without analysis, transcending ordinary comprehension. Instead of understanding, one might say there is knowing.

In this self spiralling light we cannot understand things within a normal frame of subject-object relation. Ouroboric consciousness is so endlessly and singular intensely turned upon itself that there is no room for cognitive processes as we know them. The singular feedback forms a bridge where consciousness crosses over from duality to non-duality. Therefore ouroboric consciousness is becoming more and more ignorant as it aproaches the feedback singularity.
 
When the Ourorobos descends into the body to become conscious super-awareness, it fundamentally retains its self-referential feedback mechanism and the same quality of non-understanding. The evolutionary trade-off is that this feedback loop compresses all dualistic distinctions to a point where traditional cognition becomes impossible.

Here there is only a space left for a tsunamic roar of a-ha!

"When attention turns towards itself,
there is a sense of not-knowing.
When it turns outwards, that which can be known is created."
— Nisargadatta Maharaj

The non-cognitive Intelligence embedded in Super-Awareness
Yet, there appears to be a wholly new form of knowing present within this vortex of super-aware suchness. Yongey Mingyur serves as a beacon for the unfolding of this new intelligence. The term 'intuition' falls short in capturing the essence of this emergent form of knowing. Words struggle to depict this wordless dimension. We encounter the recurring quandary that a lower-dimensional system of intelligence struggles to encapsulate its more advanced, higher-dimensional successor.
   
The best way for words to point in the right direction is through poetry.
 
You may now wonder: How can intelligence exist in a non-cognitive, non-verbal form? Consider the example of slime mold. Intelligence can manifest in numerous ways, yet we often overlook these alternative expressions. Much like frogs in a well, we are limited by our own frame of reference and find it difficult to conceive of the birds soaring in the sky.

This dynamic also sheds light on why many, though not all, super-conscious beings often appear almost childishly naive when articulating their own states.
Yongey Mingur Rinpoche is arguably one of the most super-conscious individuals alive today. Nonetheless, his otherwise endearing explanations of his own state are far from complex, as evidenced in this Youtube-clip. In the hindu and buddhist traditions there are countless stories of fools bypassing intelligent people in the race for enlightenment.

The Grand Translator
Intriguingly, the seat of this unique form of intelligence seems to reside in the heart. At least it is experienced so. As ouroboros consciousness circles back, it materializes as an intense feeling of love, righteousness, and compassionate goodness within the heart, imbuing it with profound wisdom. The heart is in this sense The Great Translator. It translates the impersonal, endless and basically cold algoritms governing the universe into deep human feelings. From a cosmic perspective, one could argue that God is fundamentally indifferent to our existence—we are less significant than a speck of dust beneath an insect's feet. However, it is through the human heart—the "Son of Man"—that God gains the capacity to love. Therefore, without the activation of this translating mechanism, enlightenment could devolve into a jarring and incomplete experience of extreme depersonalization.

While this intelligence is subjectively felt as a deep emotional resonance in the heart, it can also be metaphorically viewed as a biological transformation—a comprehensive rewiring of the brain and body.
 
Science and imagination
Science is undeniably a magnificent instrument for understanding our world, but it has its limitations—limitations often set by the scientists themselves. Occasionally, scientists neglect to include themselves as fallible, unknown variables at the end of their equations. When they fail to show this humility, they inadvertently become the self-assured priests they once opposed for centuries.

Einstein held imagination in high regard, and in that spirit, I venture to posit: Ouroboros consciousness harbors within it the universe's most potent anti-entropic quality. Yet, this quality comes to fruition only when the Ouroboros descends and incarnates in the body as spirals of conscious super-awareness.

It's why 'luck' seems to follow those who are super-aware—time and space appear to bend as servants in their presence.

The Super-Conscious Bypass
As discussed in the chapter, The Super-Awake Flow, this emergent intuitive intelligence progressively assumes tasks and actions that were once governed by a more laborious, thought-centered operating system. One of the many qualities of super-awareness as an operating system is its ability to bypass the thought operating system and therefore language. I will try to narrow down and thus make more tangible the understanding of consciousness to the following: Ordinary 'weak' human consciousness can be simplistically viewed as an intelligent data processing operating system. This operating system is at present centered in an cognition and language based 'ego'. This ego operates in duality, both inwardly in the form of 'I' and 'me', and outwarly between 'me' and 'you'.

All creatures contain one reflection:
one, that is the denial of its being the other;
the highest of the angels denies he is the lowest. 
God is the denial of denials.
Meister Eckhart

Fundamentally, humans are not reliant on the ego's language-based and understanding-centric interfaces to perform intelligent actions. The immediacy and intuition of super-awareness, bypassing the need for words, interact with time and space in ways that seem almost magical when compared to the ego's conventional thought processes. Intelligent action is born of the super-awakened intuition.

At Meditation.dk, the ultimate treasure—what some might call the Holy Grail—is discovered when meditatively nurtured super-awareness transcends the confines of the ego's linguistic bubble, plunging deeply into the ever-unfolding enigma of life perched on the precipice of primal, near-sensory experiences.

In meditation, the intrepid inner explorer can tap into the bodily mysteries of the primordial ocean at unfathomable, as-yet unnamed depths. The wisdom gained through this super-aware state transcends language, though here I rely on words to convey it. It's crucial to remember that reading about the moon is not the same as actually setting foot on its surface.
 
Only the Hyper-Aware Can Break the Conceptual Wall
In this sense, meditative pixelation is metaphorically akin to quantum physics' search for smaller and smaller particles. Both quantum physics and meditative pixelation share the curious fact that the observer affects the observed. An emotion, a sensation, will change the moment we consciously notice it in meditation. The intensity of this process is proportional to the quantitative potency and qualitative clarity of consciousness and attention.
 
Unless your attention and consciousness are healthy, hyper-awake, and focused, you won't be able to break through and delve within yourself. If you are tired, unclear, or stressed, you won't be able to tear down the wall between words and wordlessness.

CONSCIOUS AWARENES FOR A NEW AGE
We are at a pivotal moment where consciousness is reuniting with the body it had to leave to evolve on its own. This marks a journey towards newly discovered spiritual landscapes. The consciousness has gained strength both through evolutionary maturity and liberation from the physical body.
Now it is time for a deep dive.
 
The Blissful Via Dolorosa of Meditation
Our spirit yearns for the beyond but must now heed the call of Earth and darkness. The first walls this spirit will encounter are the wall of pain and shame. However, the new spirit seeks and loves suffering, and the moment it does, it cannot find it—because suffering can only exist as something we don't want.

This is what pixellation is all about. No sentimental story-telling can go to this war-zone. The sufis knew this secret. In no other tradition, suffering has been so well understood. The sufi knows that by embracing suffering, the spirit gains blissful depth, a new dimension it has never possessed before.While our spirit aspires to the transcendent, it must now attend to the realities of Earth and its darker aspects. The first obstacles this new spirit will confront are the walls of pain and shame. Yet, paradoxically, when this spirit seeks and loves suffering, it finds that suffering eludes it—for suffering can only manifest as something unwanted.

This is the crux of pixellation. Sentimental narratives hold no sway in this complex arena. The Sufis grasped this enigma deeply; in no other tradition has suffering been so fully comprehended. The Sufi understands that in embracing suffering, the spirit acquires a blissful depth, gaining dimensions it never previously possessed.

Fuel of Consciousness
Feelings or "emotions" drive us to act, making them a type of energy. This energy serves as the foundation for consciousness, and recognizing this is the first step in a transformative inner journey.

I use the term "pixels" to describe the ever-present but mostly ignored sensations in our bodies. This term is not meant to imply something negative, but rather something intensely lived yet unacknowledged.
 
Becoming constantly aware of this 'pixelated life' inside us is the cornerstone of meditation. Discovering this dark energy requires true courage; it's not for the faint-hearted.
 
The First Step Out of Bed
It's a milestone in our Meditative Life when we discover that each of the emotions we thought we knew so well is actually a specifically configured bundle of electrochemical sensations. Even love dissolves in pure introspective consciousness into an electrochemical bodily sensation in the upper part of the chest. This realization doesn't make love any less mysterious. Our outdated software, our ego-operating system, will never truly grasp what is happening. It will convince itself that meditation is boring and unnecessary. This reminds me of an ayahuasca session I once participated in some years ago. One of my friends had perhaps taken three times more ayahuasca than I had. He sat outside in the cottage where the session was held, staring at the sunset over the ocean. I went out multiple times to check on his state. When I looked into his eyes, I could see he was completely gone. Nevertheless, he told me: "Nothing is happening here. I'm bored. I want to go home."

Here's a summary of my "purely" meditative experiences. You can draw inspiration from them in a kind of open-source field of information, where you alone assemble your spiritual software:

When we stand within ourselves in conscious hyper-awareness, the first thing that happens is the separation of concepts and sensations. Emotions, so to speak, are poured out of their conceptual containers and become pure sensory flows. They lose the habitual conceptualization that enables us to use them in our cognitive metabolism with ourselves and the external world. Here, the original sensations stand on their own, recognized as the primal energy forms they always were. This inner awareness awakens us from a dream-like state, where blind emotional tendrils have been controlling the puppet-show life we believed was our real existence. In this new inner space, we can't simply recite the familiar refrains of our conventional, mundane lives in the same way we used to. Declaring "I love/hate you/them" dramatically and then acting upon it is not as straightforward as before. For here, in the warming light of hyper-consciousness, all feelings, whether it's itchy skin or being in love, are perceived in their abstract, primal oceanic form. In this state of heightened, attentive inward focus, they will be recognized as the elemental sensory particles from which all our seemingly well-known emotions are constructed.

Sensation is the Fuel of Consciousness
In our standard extroverted state of consciousness, we experience these abstract sensations in almost complete inner ignorance. The realization of this ignorance about ignorance occurs for those who look inwardly and understand that the more contact consciousness has with this abstract sensory world, the more awakened it becomes. This is because consciousness, like a light bulb, draws its energy from the abstract electrical charge of sensation.

Sensation itself serves as the fuel for consciousness. Therefore, the spatial expansion and quality of consciousness are proportional to its intensity. This means that consciousness can only evolve into hyper-awareness by meditatively "biting its own sensed tail." The more passionately we look inward at the one who is looking, the more awake consciousness becomes.

Only the sensation that has not yet been named and categorized by the mind can serve as energy to unfurl this dark sail of consciousness. We fall asleep as we name the world. Academics are often highly intelligent sleepwalkers for this reason. I have a dear friend who 'only' has an education as an electrician. Interestingly, his "light of consciousness" is among the most enlightened I've encountered, largely due to its lack of academic conditioning.

Let Me Repeat the Crucial Insight
When we look at the observer, an inner spatialized aware space is born that wasn't there before the inward focus.

Feedback and the Infinity Function
This process is identical to the infinity functions that arise when a camera is aimed at itself. When the camera 'catches sight of itself,' a spiritual door opens in the form of a singular infinity function. Notice how objects from the outer world interact in a fractal-psychedelic way with this infinity function. In meditation, it is not outer objects but inner 'objects,' in the form of wordless sensory phenomena, that interact with the singularly folded mirror of superconsciousness. Precisely for this reason, there is no spatial infinity present within us until we turn towards ourselves.

The Psychedelic Journey and the Apollonian Space of Meditation
The dynamic singularity of the introverted camera in the aforementioned video is more akin to a psychedelic journey than the more Apollonian space created in Meditation. Despite the similarities with video introversion, the inner space cultivated through Meditation is usually more 'pure,' even though Meditation is also capable of occasionally generating visions, ranging from pure amusement to grand religious narratives.

The Journey of Hyper-Awareness Back to the Origins of Life
The journey of hyper-awareness towards oneself also opens a portal through which we travel back to the dawn of creation. For space creates time, and time creates space. In the chapter "Consciousness & Evolution," we saw how the human body is a biological recycling of all previous life forms. From this perspective, Meditation is the psychic archaeology that enables us to 'witness' where we come from—not in the form of academic knowledge but infinitely deeper in the form of ecstatically lived felt-witnessed wisdom!

Here, I become aware that the deepest sensations of bliss in the flesh of my body are, in reality, the original cells of the primordial ocean. In the form of the colony of life forms that call themselves 'me,' they continue to sing their original simmering primordial songs. Now, I sense-know where I am from, or more precisely, in which direction I have come from. For the journey back appears to go infinitely further, from the cells of the primordial ocean to the nebulae of stardust. Yes, 'I' continue beyond time and space and now arrive at a new station, a location-less location where everything happens simultaneously right now:

"The happenings of a thousand years ago, days spent millenniums since, are in eternity no further off than is this moment I am passing now; the day to come a thousand years ahead or in as many years as you can count, is no more distant in eternity than this very instant I am in."
— Meister Eckhart

Even this station is not the final stop. It goes on and on and on.

Deep Meditation and Cellular Exploration
In deep Meditation, one has the opportunity to consciously visit one's own dormant primordial body and experience a sea of different operative states. With more neuronal connections than there are particles in the universe, the hyper-awake brain has the opportunity to delve deeper into the mystery of the whole than anything else 'created' in time and space.

In hyper-aware Meditation, I have experimented with turning on and off different layers of these annual rings. The deeper we go, the less awareness there is, and the more non-awake attention. In pure attention, we are actually not awake. A sleepwalker can, despite not being awake, be so attentive that they can balance on the ridge of a roof. The sleepwalker is attentive but not conscious. Similarly, one can have a sensible dialogue with a patient who has just come out of anesthesia. However, the person is not yet awake and, therefore, not self-aware of it. Our animalistic operating systems function perfectly well without consciousness.
 

Hyper-Awareness and the Democracy of Cellular Governance
Ouroboic conscious-awareness presupposes that the colony of cells and bacteria known as a human being operates under a democratic governance structure where cellular factions collaborate. Hyper-awareness can only arise in a sublime and dynamic inner balance point among all our asynchronous and conflicting bio-operating systems, down to the churning primordial soup of bacteria within us that controls our brain's neurotransmitters.

What hyper-awareness does is make us cognizant of deeper and deeper layers of our impossible existence as asynchronous cell colonies housed under one roof. The more the illuminating and warming light of consciousness touches even the most remote bacteria and cellular 'stars' in our inner galaxy, the better our overall balance becomes. In this sense, we are a galactic microcosm surfing a galactic macrocosm. The more awake one is, the better one finds the ever-shifting balance point on the surfboard of existence. Humanity is the needle's eye where two dimensions collide.

However, as mentioned: just as a PA system can become overwhelmed by feedback if not properly managed, our minds and bodies must be robust to handle the intensity of self-aware states without losing balance. This analogy underscores the importance of maintaining both mental and physical health to sustain deeper levels of awareness. This holds especially true for people who experiment in the sweet spot between psychedelics and meditation.
 
The Ouroboros of Divine Ignorance
In this endeavor to use the mind to dismantle the alienation it itself has wrought, I stumbled upon a bizarre yet utterly remarkable potential within our intellect: It can, in a feedback loop similar to a policeman handcuffing himself, devour its own tail like the ouroboros snake, paving the way for what I dub the highest understanding: divine ignorance. This miraculous self-destruction opens the gates for those parts of ourselves that we, in our intellectual arrogance, might have scorned as crude or simple.

However, the self-devoured intellect re-emerges, not as a repetitive Phoenix reborn from ashes, but as something novel and vibrant, humbly assuming the role of a counselor. Becoming its own beginning in the end, like the Ouroboros snake, the intellect deeply understands that there is fundamentally nothing to understand. In this relization, the transformed intellect serves as a humble guide to the cosmic fool that is our true essence, albeit in a radically different context and environment.
 
The cosmic fool, enigmatic in its presence, takes its place within a cathedral of elevated consciousness, a sanctuary dedicated to the highest levels of supreme awareness. This scenario reflects a supreme form of intelligence that is simultaneously enveloped in ignorance, akin to the way slime mould exhibits a form of super intelligence devoid of conscious awareness. In the state of supreme awareness, we delegate our cognitive processes in a manner similar to our utilization of artificial intelligence. Just as we neither comprehend nor need to comprehend the workings of our heartbeat or digestive processes, we also let go of the necessity to grasp the mechanisms of cognition itself. This realization champions a form of wisdom that transcends the conventional need for understanding, embracing instead the liberating embrace of divine ignorance.

A Healthy Soul in a Healthy Body
In this context, enlightenment can be defined as the singular feedback of consciousness into itself. Here, Rumi’s metaphor of "polishing the mirror" becomes essential. Consciousness, together with its capacity for high-quality, focused experiences, must reach a critical point—a point of no return—to enter this singular feedback state. Conversely, a dull or inattentive consciousness will struggle to reach such profound depth.

It's important to note that the quality of self-referential amplification depends on the quality of attention given. Dull and low-quality concentration cannot reach the point of no return, which is necessary for consciousness to enter the state of singular feedback. An attention interface that is too obsessed with chasing external objects will only meet with boredom when looking inside.
 
This state of singular feedback, which I define as enlightenment, occurs when consciousness is amplified into consciousness in such a way that it comes close to the singularity. The capability of high-quality experience in consciousness and its correlation with time-space is necessary for consciousness to reach this point.