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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever since my first days as a doctor, forty years ago, people have asked for answers. A medical treatment was what they wanted, but the reassurance and comfort that human contact could bring was just ...