Q: Where does consciousness come from?
A (Martin): It doesn’t come from anywhere, but is everywhere, pervading the whole universe as its essence. Consciousness is you and you are consciousness. All phenomena appear to be just that, appearances, but in reality, being the expression of consciousness, are only consciousness. There is no other reality.
Q: What is the next step after realization of witness consciousness?
A (Matin): Realization of witness consciousness is not brought about by anything or ‘anybody’. Consciousness does not perform any function, and there is nothing beyond or other than it. Finally, however, only intuition can nudge one towards it.
I am the Witness-Self; I am the basis of all experience; I am the light that that makes experience possible. – Yoga Vasishta.
Martin, hello. 🙂
I quite like Rupert Spira’s:
“Consciousness is that
in which all experience appears,
with which all experience is known,
out of which all experience is made.”
Rupert Spira is a disciple (initially at least) of Francis Lucille, who is quite a lucid teacher on his own and previously was a follower or disciple of Jean Kline.
I like all of them, but the Direct Path tends to be a bit too direct for me, I do better with gradual paths, evolution over revolution.
(This was my last reply to you’
‘…too direct’. —I understand. The founder (I think) of the ‘Direct
Path’ was Shri Krishna Menon (Atmananda) – a police inspector or
captain in an Indian city – who wrote forcefully and directly. His two
main works are: ‘Atma Dharshan’ and ‘Atma-Nirvriti’ – I read both of
them and have with me the second book.
Sample of the second book: ‘It is the mind that has thoughts and
feelings, not I. Birth, growth, decay and death pertain to the body
and not to Me’ – 1st page of A.N.