Insights—Consciousness: the As-Lived Experience
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2024-03-17

Namaste 🙏🏼 So, the human existential experience is grounded or built upon the four states of consciousness. We've been over it a million times, I know, but you can't escape it. 

Let's not talk about, you know, I'm all dressed up as a South Indian Śaivite priest. That's my character and that's my language. When I talk about the works of Śaṅkarācārya, we're talking about the logic behind these states of consciousness—how they relate to each other and how they can function in special ways to bring us to enlightenment and all.

But wait a minute: before we get to the language, before we get to the costume and the practices, isn't the experience behind it the same for everybody?