Awareness of Being Is Not Mediated Through Mind

The awareness of being is not mediated through mind, through thought or perception. Rupert responds to a woman who asks whether consciousness can ever know itself in form, when reality is filtered through it. Rupert clarifies that Kant said that we cannot know the nature of reality of the world because we perceive it through the filter of our senses. In other words, the world appears to us in a way that is consistent with the limitation of our own mind; we cannot know reality, only phenomena. However, Rupert clarifies, because each of us emerges out of reality, in the same way that a wave emerges from the ocean, we have direct access to our self. The awareness of being is not mediated through thought or perception. There is one aspect of our self that we have direct access to: the awareness of being. Rupert uses the analogy of John Smith and King Lear to further clarify this point. We know ‘I am’ directly. This is lucid waking.

From event 14 - 18 January, 2022 Five Day Retreat at Froyle Park – 14th to 18th January

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