SUPREME AWARENESS
The Embodiment of Ouroboric Consciousness
Oh Friend! Understand The body is like the ocean Rich with hidden treasures. Open its innermost chamber and light its lamp
Mirabai
Go into your own ground
and learn to know yourself there. Meister Eckhart
What is hidden in the simple
It requires
a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Alfred North Whitehead.
No matter how
tangled and complex my attempts to write Meditation.dk may appear at
times, many of them actually stem
from trivial banalities that most of us already know all too well.
Things that are too banal, self-evident, or obvious tend to disappear,
much like the ticking of an alarm clock. It is these disappearing and
small things that I am most interested in.
The Power of Awareness: A
Lesson from New Delhi Years ago, I found myself crossing a bustling street in New
Delhi under sweltering heat. Feeling dizzy, I misjudged the
height of the curb on the Indian sidewalk—vastly different from
what I was accustomed to in Denmark. My toe, shielded only by a
sandal, collided with the deviously protruding curb, initially
causing a little injury. Despite immediate first aid, the
wound soon became infected and led to a serious foot condition
that required hospitalization. The lesson from this experience
is straightforward: Had I been more alert and present, I could
have avoided the mishap altogether. Things can go awfully wrong
out of nowhere and out of tiny incidents when you are not aware.
We are protected by our awareness. It is replete with
instinctive survival strategies honed over our evolutionary
journey from mammals to humans. In a state of heightened
awareness, I could have navigated that challenging street
effortlessly, much like a sleepwalker can perfectly balance
themselves, even on rooftops.
Bodhidharma
- Note the third eye,
a symbolic representation
of super-consciousness.
Bodhidharma and
Ouroboros-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 state of 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 that 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 aims to delve into
the intriguing descent of Bodhidharmic super-consciousness into
the bodily realm.
What transformations occur within our internal world when this
spiraling vortex of ouroboros-consciousness penetrates our very
being, from the crown of our head to the tips of our toes?
This could potentially induce megalomania if it were not for the
fact that every human, in principle, has the capability to
"galacticize" themselves.
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 its
own content. Instead, it turned inward, discovering and
immersing itself in its own essence. In this abyss, it seemed to
lose itself.
As elaborated in the
previous chapter, these
elevated states of yogic 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 state of intense, self-contained
'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 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
go 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.
At this evolutionary stage,
consciousness became susceptible to the 'noise' generated by
bodily sensations—egoism, existential pain, desires, and unruly
emotions—which had the potential to fragment the still-delicate
phenomenon of Ouroboros Consciousness. The return of the King of Consciousness
The key message of Meditation.dk is to illustrate that a
transformative shift has occurred. The moment has arrived for an
enhanced, luminous consciousness to reintegrate as fully as
possible with the human body. In metaphorical terms, the
Ouroboric King must reclaim his throne in the human heart,
ruling the body from there, from head to toe. This throne wasn't
empty; it was held either by the cold kings of reason or the
various facets of the seven deadly sins. Yet, the benevolent
Ouroboric King won't overthrow these occupants; instead, he will
purify them with the warmth of his light and reposition them as
his wise counselors.
As Ouroboros Consciousness returns to the corporeal realm, it
gradually transforms the introspectively sensed body into a
beacon of super-aware consciousness. When does this colonization
occur? Only when Ouroboric Consciousness is robust enough to
withstand an encounter with the untamed and tempestuous body. If
this consciousness isn't fully formed, it risks shattering upon
meeting the overwhelming sensations of the body's inner realms.
This is why consciousness initially had to distance itself from
the body—to avoid being engulfed. A feeble field of
consciousness can't penetrate the layers of inherited pain
within us, leading to incessant cycles of trauma and
re-traumatization.
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 a profound complement in Jung's
notion of individuation. While Ouroboros Consciousness in its
early devellopmental stage, seeks a
transcendent state free from bodily constraints, Jung's idea of
individuation urges us to harmonize the various dimensions of
human experience, including our corporeal existence.
In a new phase of spiritual exploration, Ouroboros Consciousness
is encouraged to re-engage with our bodily interior, echoing
Jung's principle that the journey towards individuation requires
a deep embodiment. This integration of Ouroboros Consciousness
with bodily awareness represents a kind of divine individuation,
uniting the ethereal and the material in a holistic expression
of human potential. Here, the celestial mirrors the corporeal,
and the spirit finds its completion not in escape from, but in
deeper 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 SUPER-AWARE BODY
However, 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 '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 in
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.
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.
We must remember that
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
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 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.
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 Ouroboros Consciousness descends and
incarnates in the body as 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.
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.
The Super-Aware 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.
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'.
In a state of heightened awareness during meditation, I now
dare to extend my hand through words to pose the question: What
are sensations of attention really like in themselves—before
thoughts have translated them into a language that our verbal
consciousness can understand? What are emotions like love or
anger, before they are named within our dual consciousness?
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.
The Spheric
Eversion of the Spaceholer This spatiality is fluid, capable of expanding and
contracting like a balloon, from the infinitely large to the
infinitely small, and vice versa. Initially, we discover this
sanctuary within our body. However, often after reaching a
certain point of no return, the body finds itself as a minuscule
droplet within a vast universe cradled by super-awareness.
This next statement is crucial: as you approach the vertical
self-referential singularity, the space can expand to such an
extent that, as Meister Eckhart put it, the body is more within
the soul than the soul is within the body.
Picture this: I remember the first time I felt like I was truly
inhabiting my own body. But in a heartbeat, my entire perception
shifted, and my body became this tiny little speck in an endless
expanse of space. Suddenly, the feeling of being in a body
vanished altogether. It was like a tennis ball turning inside
out, an absolutely mind-bending realization that permanently
changed how I saw the world.
This incredible experience is what can happen happens when
short-distance senses, which occur within the realm of
awareness, merges and expands into the realm of self-referential consciousness. And when you finally reach the singularity, everything
- even light and sound - disappears into the void of pure,
unfathomable full nothingness.
God's exit is his entrance.
He broke in to let us out. Meister Eckhart
It's wild to think about, but it's
true: the way in leads out. This journey takes you from the
meditation lounge to a limitless
expanse beyond anything you could have ever imagined.
The miracle of the spheric eversion is a natural property of the
self feeding snake of Ourorobos. As there is an eternal beginning
in no beginning and an eternal end in no end, as there is
existence in no existence, there is inside in outside and
outside in inside. I have become the outside, and the outside
has become my inside.
This fascinating phenomenon is further explored in the chapter
on
Shared Fields of
Consciousness.
In the enveloping darkness, stars invisible in daylight suddenly
emerge, uncovering another layer of self-evident obscurity.
Within the dark cathedral of our inner night, we can newly
perceive the dormant states of our body.
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 "dark energy" 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 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.
Oh Friend! Understand The body is like the ocean Rich with hidden treasures. Open its innermost chamber and light its lamp Mirabai
The Aztek Snake God
Queztacoatl
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
Hyper-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.
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.
For further clarification of his
wonderfull and mysterious phenomenon I recommend you to read the
chapter
Ouroboric Super-Awareness.
