' Detaching from the body '...

What is meant when it is said that the Overself is man’s higher individuality must now be explained.

We know that the World ­Mind must be everywhere yet it is certainly not everywhere to the personal consciousness.

There must be a point‑instant in space-­time perception where the latter can meet it.

In most mystical ex­perience such a point is first felt to exist within the heart.

But the World‑Mind cannot be confined within such a limited percep­tion.

And later mystical experience always transcends this centre within the heart and largely detaches the consciousness from the body altogether.


-Paul Brunton