Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

basic grasp of the flowing nature of the universe.
Going even deeper you become aware of the ground
state of consciousness, the so-called Fourth State, or
Turiya that interpenetrates and powers all other states
of consciousness, including the waking, dream and
deep sleep states.
Finally, you become aware that you are watching
all this unfolding of consciousness, and it does not
touch you—you are entirely beyond it, as if in a
different dimension. This part of you is not touched by
anything in consciousness. This absolute part of you
cannot be cut, killed, or injured in any way. This part
of you, the Absolute, the Unmanifest, the noumenon,
in one sense is immortal, and in another, beyond even
immortality.
All these levels of consciousness and beyond are
‘You’. The above outline portrays more or less the
progression of my experience. But I do not want you
to travel my path. I want to help you travel your own
path by taking away your illusions, concepts,
contagions, and conditionings. I want to rob you, strip
you naked of all your spiritual and scientific clothes so
that you can see and experience yourself as something
extraordinary, beautiful, loving, and 'divine', but still
as a human living in a sometimes harsh and ugly world.
The following essays and talks work at whittling
away one belief or conditioning at a time, preparing