Vaj wrote: > The witnessing of waking, sleeping and dreaming > parallel the meditative states of the calm state > (no thought, dreamless witnessing), movement of > thought (dream state fabricating itself from > thought forms) and collapse of dream/dreamless back > to waking (or the death of waking into sleep). > <snip> Your post doesn't seem to have anything to do with the "witnessing" described by the exponents of the Adwaita tradition beginning with Guadapadacharya. According to Shankara, there is a fourth state in which the witnessing occurs. But, there is no way for a person to witness the Brahman in either the waking or the dream state - those states are part and parcel of the state of maya.
"This is the substratum of even the other three states of experience. During the silence that follows the recitation of aum, one is advised to merge in that Consciousness, in fact, be that Consciousness. That Consciousness is the Atman. That is Brahman. To underscore the point that the 'fourth state' is not another 'state' of consciousness, but consciousness itself, turi-ya avastha- is simply called turi-ya (the fourth)." Beyond the three states: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandukya_Upanishad
