' "What leads to unity consciousness?'...

Unity consciousness is when we experientially and actually feel our own self in all things, times and places.

The full brunt of that experience is timeless and does not last in its fullness forever; but leaves a residual experience thereafter.

Once we transcend our mind/body condition, discover the witness, sense our self as unchanging awareness; we realize that there is an ego still that remains.

We can damn this ego, push it away, and try and go further into emptiness. If we continue that path it eventually leads to a harsh and disconnected vantage point; and we inevitably become an “ego hater or denier,” either subtly or obviously.

Or, we can draw the blade of inquiry once again and ask the question, “What is the relationship between awareness and this ego?”

If this question is pursued all the way to the end, unity consciousness will descend.


-Atreya Thomas