Only awareness knows that there is awareness. Only awareness is aware. As such, awareness is self-aware. Just as all objects on earth are illuminated by the sun but the sun alone is self-luminous, so all experience is known by awareness, but awareness itself is self-knowing.

We’ll explore why only awareness can be aware: Perhaps the most radical recognition we’ll investigate is that consciousness doesn’t belong to brains, bodies or separate selves. Rather, what we call separate selves are temporary modifications of the one consciousness that is looking out through every pair of eyes.

Experience never ceases to change, but ‘I’, the knowing element in all experience, never itself changes. The knowing with which all experience is known is always the same knowing.

We’ll discover the unchanging element in all experience: Throughout your entire life, whilst everything else has changed – your body, thoughts, circumstances, relationships – there’s something that has remained perfectly constant. The ‘I’ that you felt yourself to be as a child is the same ‘I’ you feel yourself to be today. What is this unchanging... See more

All that is known, or could ever be known, is experience. Struggle as we may with the implications of this statement, we cannot legitimately deny it. Being all that could ever be known, experience itself must be the test of reality.