> --- Angela Mailander wrote: > > The notion that there is "pure consciouness" > as a substrate to the universe as the "unmanifest" > is attractive, but I am not aware that anyone has > offered anything like real evidence that this is the > case, as Curtis has pointed out already.
This thread has reminded me of something I used to tell new meditators. It went like this: "We said in our introductory lecture that consciousness is the source and substrate of all creation. Since then, you've learned how to let your awareness settle down to the point that awareness can be aware of itself for a bit - maybe just the barest instant. And in the days since you've had this experience, you've noted all kinds of changes and improvements on your three days' checking forms. Those changes are the first evidence that what we said in the intro lecture was true - that all areas of life improve when the essence of life, pure consciousness, gains in one's awareness." I'm fine with this surmise ^ as far as it goes. What I would have liked to see, however, if for it to go further. Sometimes it seems the benefits I accrued from TM didn't go much further than those observed on the three days' checking forms.
