The Layers of Consciousness

Silence sings as Self-consciousness. It is the shimmering light of an understanding that is both infinitely still, yet infinitely—gloriously—active. This structured patterning and shimmer that I perceive is grounded in organized intelligence; it roars like a thousand creation-blazing suns.

I perceive a shining field of consciousness in which the seed form and pre-sound organization of the divine heavens—and the processes that take place within them—coalesce into the functions of my physical life. I no longer see this process just abstractly. Each spark, each connection, each form are tangible concentrations of the over-all shine of knowing. I experience this as a certainty because the very nature of each expanded layer and each point blazes its own connectedness as my Self-awareness.

Realizing that my consciousness is full of everything inside and outside, that it has no boundaries and is the real description of existence, can be a mouthful to explain. It is not the complexity that is hard to put into words, but rather it is the unbounded, Self-evident simplicity that defies any words.

My experience is very blissful not because I am watching my experience, but because the layers of my Self-awareness are the unity of my experience. The stillness, the joy, the understanding, the sounds and sights—individually and all together—are the whole content of Self-awareness.

My experience appears as the vastness of existence but still somehow manages to incorporate it all into the smallest point of my individual awareness. And the relationship between the two operates as the functions of personal and universal co-existence.

Both seeing and hearing feel more like streams of intuitive knowledge than the individual senses that we are familiar with. I am partaking in and watching the activities of the divine in the sense that what is open to my awareness is what I know myself to be. I am intuitively and with my physical eyes, seeing in both directions: deep inside to the more abstract levels of knowingness and ‘outside’, to the infinite field of the tangible expressions of that knowledge. This kind of seeing and hearing is the structure of what unifies the reverberating ‘inside’ with the reverberating ‘outside’.

These days, my sense of sight and hearing, in fact my whole physical awareness, has expanded into a clarity that accommodates even the divine heavens—not just as a feeling but as the physical sights and sounds of divine cosmic forms and space that radiate bliss-permeated streams of light and pure understanding. They are all joined together within an inter-connected stillness of knowledge that is the activity of my consciousness.

My experience is a composite of the dynamics of nature, functioning in conjunction with the glorious celestial regions and their personifications. As with any activity of the divine I also see a corresponding synchronous activity in the field of my consciousness which naturally extends to my surrounding environment. For this reason, I know no difference between the subtle areas of Self-awareness and my daily physical life. They are both the same multi-directional exchange of continuity.

I see uncountable eight-fold whirling streams of heavenly light and intelligence converging to points of concentrated bliss and knowledge, bridging all gaps between heaven and earth, between my body and universal consciousness—one very-much-alive space of unbounded, yet tangible brilliance. I am in, and surrounded by, this divine raining warmth of cosmically-converging bliss.

I experience an intelligence-filled universal golden sphere, that appears far larger than our own blazing sun in the vault of the sky, except this one is the dome of my heart and mind. I see these all-containing points of heaven’s bounty that make up the wonderful shimmer of my heart—booming, expanding forth and pouring in—creating, supporting and maintaining the play between my, and everyone’s, individual and cosmic existence.