Sublime

This is the mirror-like nature of consciousness: reflective, luminous, untarnished, and peaceful.

Among many others, I draw on the ideas of two spiritual teachers I should mention. One is my friend Douglas Harding, whose unique and inimitable approach sheds light on the Self as Consciousness, which is pure Kashmir Shaivism. The other is the enigmatic 20th-century teacher G. I. Gurdjieff. I met his teachings in my earliest days as a spiritual se

the object of perception cannot be separated from the mind that perceives it.

culturally unacknowledged.