The coolest and most basic insight that has coalesced in my understanding of human consciousness over the past 18 months is that a fundamental distinction can be drawn between two different streams of ...

In the context of meditation practice, meditators can experience a state of "pure awareness" or "pure consciousness", in which they perceive consciousness itself. This state can be experienced in ...

I label the two streams the self stream and the pure awareness stream. John Vervaeke uses a metaphor to teach people how to get a good grip on shifting their perspective and learning how to look at ...

In the context of meditation practice, meditators can experience a state of "pure awareness" or "pure consciousness", in which they perceive consciousness itself. This state can be experienced in ...

Picture a group of people meditating. They aren't chanting. They aren't counting a string of beads. They aren't burning incense or sitting in a contorted position. In fact, to the naked eye, they aren ...