instantly. It was just another phenomenon in
consciousness, not a state belonging to me as a
person.
Illusion’s Realm.......................................................................
Over the following months the experience widened
and deepened. Sometimes the world appeared real,
sometimes unreal, sometimes both; but I understood
that these appearances of real or unreal were just
judgments added onto the basic illusion of
phenomenality and of consciousness itself. When there
is only One, all judgments or knowledge about
qualities or parts of the One, such as 'the world was
unreal,' or 'that is a car,' are themselves illusory
because they are divisive, and there is only One. The
sentence, and the knowledge, "That is a car," and the
car itself as an object separate from the One, are both
illusion. Knowledge is illusion; objects are illusion;
distinguishable qualities of the One are illusion.
Days and weeks would pass where I felt I was living
in a hologram. I felt as if I could see through objects in
the world and my own body because my focus was on
the emptiness which permeated all things, inside and
out. Everything was 'hollow,' insubstantial images and