Consciousness is conscious of something<\/strong><\/p>\n Otherwise, there would be nothing. No object, no subject, no consciousness. Just nothing.\u00a0 That would be self-contradictory.<\/p>\n One can be conscious of the concept \u2018nothing.\u2019 The \u2018nothing\u2019 becomes the object of which one can be very<\/em> conscious. That would certainly not be \u2018conscious without an object.\u2019<\/p>\n There is always something in consciousness.<\/p>\n Still, one can get very close.<\/strong><\/p>\n According to me, this is also very worthwhile. \u2018Very close\u2019 is the domain where one meets\u2026 I don\u2019t know. It is a nice and at the same time a very interesting experience. Not only while being there. Also afterward, thinking back.<\/p>\n I feel like one cannot even say which is most interesting.<\/p>\n And that is part of what precisely makes it so interesting. It brings a person in a different setting, a different \u2018space to live.\u2019 It lets one see many things differently.<\/p>\n Kind of a \u2018living\u2019 way.<\/strong><\/p>\n I was dead. Now I live.<\/p>\n I was alive. Now I\u2019m\u2026 alive. I can look back at my previous \u2018being alive\u2019 and see now how alive I\u2019ve also been without noticing, without being present in it.<\/p>\n In retrospect, I become having been present.<\/p>\n Weird stuff, man, weird stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n Who needs psychedelic drugs? I have minimal experience with them. I have no inkling of an urge to use them. Deep meditation is full-filling.<\/p>\n Not that I attain the latter very much. I also have no urge for that. I don\u2019t even think that it is something that one can<\/u> have an urge towards.<\/p>\n It crosses my path, and I say \u2018hi.\u2019<\/p>\n I\u2019m telling (writing) this now to communicate to you, dear reader, that I hope you can experience this. It makes you strong. It makes you not want any artificial door.<\/p>\n I mean mind-altering drugs of any kind.<\/p>\n Artificial doors are always dangerous.<\/strong><\/p>\n Moreover, they\u2019re not so interesting. They cannot be. A natural door leads to a natural garden. Nothing of plastic that blows your mind towards having an immense experience which may keep you from seeing\u2026<\/p>\n natural paradise?<\/strong><\/p>\n If you see the latter, you know it\u2019s always there. You can return to earth, and you\u2019re still there<\/em>.<\/p>\n Pure consciousness is not only orthogonal to conceptual consciousness.<\/p>\n It\u2019s always there, and you know it.<\/p>\n You look at an ocean. It\u2019s an ocean inside.<\/p>\n You look at the stars. It\u2019s the stars inside.<\/p>\n You look at any mundane thing.<\/p>\n