Consciousness and entering the body

In my previous text, I wrote about what consciousness truly is, and I tried to show you how you can experimentally discover that consciousness is not a product of matter but its original foundation. What was once reserved for the minds of Tibetan monks hidden in mountain caves is now being boldly explored by quantum physics. Slowly, this is becoming part of science. I believe it’s only a matter of time before physicists begin to ask not only how the universe works but also what they are as conscious beings — and experimentally discover what I want to present to you today. Perhaps then we will witness the true unification of psychology, spirituality, and physics, leading to a fuller understanding of the nature of reality.

Traditional science, from its inception, did not concern itself with this metaphysical aspect of being, because it assumed that we are only bodies and that everything that exists is material and known through the body. To this day, no scientist has proven that the brain generates consciousness. In my opinion, this is impossible because this belief is simply untrue. The model assuming that consciousness is a product of the brain is fundamentally flawed, and therefore it cannot fully explain either the essence of reality or your true nature as a conscious being. So I invite you on a journey into your own consciousness and body. Everything I write here, you can verify experientially, in your own life and within yourself.

Entering the body — but into what?

Sit or lie down in a place where no one will disturb you. Take a few deep breaths and close your eyes. Don’t focus on the breath; just let it flow freely. Try to feel your body from the inside. Notice that you can direct the stream of your attention to specific parts of the body, feeling them from within. Feel your feet, legs, buttocks, belly, back, chest, neck, head, ears, eyes, mouth, and nose. Now embrace your entire body with your awareness as one whole. Notice that some parts may feel lighter, others heavier. Also, feel the weight of your body against the surface you're on. If you’re sitting, feel your feet and buttocks resting on the seat. If you’re lying down, feel your whole body supported by the ground.

Once you fully feel your body and its inner weight, let’s go a step further.

Imagine that you’ve forgotten the entire alphabet and all the languages you know. You’ve also forgotten your whole story and past. As if you’ve completely erased your memory, like Hermione Granger in Harry Potter when she cast the Obliviate spell on her parents — except here it applies to everything you know about yourself. You can also imagine that you are a newborn child, as spiritual teacher Rupert Spira describes. A child has no past or thoughts of the future; it doesn’t know who it is or where it is — it simply exists. This is what’s happening to you now.

In this state, imagine and feel: not knowing language or your story, what can you say about yourself apart from the fact that you exist? What can you say about the feeling of your body other than that you are aware of it? Notice that all of this appears in a kind of space, like on a transparent glass background where sensations, tensions, and movements appear. Without words to describe these body parts or sensations, the only thing you can say about them is that you are aware of them. Be aware of this space of feeling and what appears within it. Let’s go further.

Not knowing language and not knowing where or who you are, feel the places where your body touches the surface you are sitting or lying on. This sensation feels heavier, denser, as if filled with something material. Notice that all you can say about this “something” is that you are aware of it. Pay attention to the fact that this contact between your body and the external matter appears in the same space of consciousness as your internal body sensations. Be attentive — first focus on the internal sensations, then gradually move to the “external” ones. Observe carefully: is there any barrier separating these two types of sensations, or do they all appear in the same space of awareness? Surprised? Let’s go further.

Direct the stream of your awareness to the sound of your breathing and the sounds of your surroundings. Remember, you don’t know any language, so don’t label these sounds — simply treat them as abstract tones appearing in space. Now reflect: do these sounds arise in a different space than where you feel your body and its contact with the seat or couch? Do the sounds exist in some separate, external space outside your awareness? If you think so, try to find the boundary separating these two spaces. I’ll be truly surprised if you find it because it simply doesn’t exist. Everything you experience as “external” appears within your consciousness. What we call the “material world” is just a concept created by the mind — names, labels, and stories invented to organize the infinite diversity of phenomena in a world that, in essence, is not separate from you.

Now direct your attention to the thoughts appearing in your consciousness. Do they arise anywhere else than the sounds or body sensations? See that all these phenomena appear in the same unified, open space — like images on a movie screen. The screen of consciousness itself remains unchanged and silent, although the movie playing on it is constantly changing. All this happens in the eternal now because — as I wrote earlier — the past and future simply do not exist. And if you treat your thoughts the same way as the sound of a bird or a car horn — as temporary, abstract phenomena — you’ll see that the only thing you can say about them is that you are aware of them. They appear in you, just like bodily sensations and the “external world,” but they have no permanent nature — they pass, flowing like a river, in accordance with the ancient truth of panta rhei.

Feeling dizzy?

As a newborn child, you don’t know what the words up, down, right, or left mean — you simply are here and now, without concepts or names. Ask yourself: how is this NOW different from the one 15 minutes ago? And how will HERE differ from the one 15 minutes from now? If you look ordinarily, you’ll see that your position will change, different thoughts will appear, maybe you’ll move to another room. But when you remove all the labels, you’ll notice that the screen of consciousness remained unchanged — only the picture changed: its content, intensity, and colors. You are that screen — consciousness that has no specific location and yet is everywhere. The whole world appears like a three-dimensional hologram projected onto this screen, and you are the one who sees it and in whom it appears.

In short, what we call enlightenment — so often surrounded by mystery and mysticism — is the simplest, most intimate experience: being aware of yourself, meaning everything that happens. You may now ask: “Okay, but what next? How do I live? Who am I? What about my career, family, children, work?” And this is exactly what the practice is about — being the aware screen on which reality appears in each of these situations. Your ego will try its best to prove that you are separate from the world because for it, realizing this screen means its end. This requires patience, practice, inner work, spiritual‑psychological effort, support, and self‑love. You’ll feel tremendous resistance because, for your whole life — and for hundreds of thousands of years of human experience — we’ve viewed reality through the filter of separation, and our nervous system feels at home in it, even if it’s painful. But what we call enlightenment — which really is just a word, an attempt to describe full awareness — is not a mystical event but a daily practice of living in truth.

I wish you a fruitful, brave exploration of consciousness.