The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing is Hidden

In ordinary states of consciousness, sound prevails over a background of silence and replaces it. In contrast, in the Presence, the opposite occurs. Although sound is perceptible, it is in the background. The Silence prevails so that the silence is actually not interrupted or displaced by the sound.

Everything appears to move as though in slow motion because time is absent. There is only a continuous state of Now.

Existence and its expression as both form and formlessness is God and prevail equally in all objects, persons, plants, and animals. Everything is united by the Divinity of existence.

The Presence of God An account of Enlightenment in recent times: Its sudden onset, the replacement of ordinary consciousness by an Infinite Awareness, and the transformation of the self to the Self by the Grace of the Divine Presence.

An articulate restatement of the evolution of consciousness to advanced states in current language is therefore of value.