SHACK 623 THE PRESENCE

Steve Curtiss.  Prescence photo 

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When there is a seeming silence in thought and in mind in which there is neither trance nor fatigue nor drowsiness nor a daydream or perceived lack of awareness and not in some somnambulist hypnotic reverie the there is an awareness which may be likened to the feeling of consciousness without thought, a kind of primal mind and could be said to be the presence.

This presence may not be defined as such and even be a mystery to the witness of this experience and may not even have a name or definition or words beyond vocabulary and just be said to be simply ‘I am and I exist’. This is not an I AM, there is no 'I' as an awareness of a body associated with Geoff Freed or my personality and familiar characteristics, it feels a stranger to the previous flesh body countenance and even seems to have neither body nor any kind of encapsulation. It does not even solve the mystery of the image of the face in the mirror and who is this face anyway.

Further more this existence may not be dependent on a flesh body and maybe it an energetic form of vibratory essence of being. Like a dream substance not of the content of the dream but the awareness and witness to the content, like a feeling in a dream of the awareness that a dream is in progress but the witness is somehow afar and not attached to the content.

No explanations as to this mysterious conscious pure unadulterated awareness would be defining and so limiting the experience as so often the human mind tends to be by compartmentalising and depriving thereof the complete beauty and revelation of that which is the essence of consciousness.

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