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So there's this story about how all of existence is Braham being bored and deciding to split its consciousness into multiple parts that forgot about the splitting and just play with one another. Which is obviously a story right and also I think there's way more to it:
First let me cite @vervaeke_john on wisdom, insight and becoming a deeper person. TL;DR: wisdom is about piercing deeper into reality especially into the reality of your self-deception (which causes foolish action). https://t.co/KyXwaDZXga
Interesting, something about realising your true nature. Let's go on. Another thing I'm always going on about are "virtual machines" a term I got from @meditationstuff because, like many of his terms, it very precisely captures the feel of the phenomenon.
Virtual machines are endemic in the mind. What are they? They're plans to exclusively be and exist in a certain way so that a certain goal is achieved. Imagine as a child you got told off for expressing your emotions. You adopt the plan "Being someone who doesn't have emotions"
Now this is obviously obviously obviously a bad plan. First of all it is untenable. Emotions just are. But they can be hidden from sight. What will effectively happen is that one becomes blind to one's own emotions. Many childhood plans are bad, of course, you were powerless.
Now, imagine this child, now grown up. They had a plan to not track emotions so they never did. How much of the world is invisible to him? How much is hard to explain? I'd venture a lot. Emotions are the prime movers of many things. Imagine they notice this.
Maybe a girlfriend mentioned they never show emotion. They decide to "fix" it and go to a therapist. Learn about the emotion wheel, match their facial expressions in the mirror to emojis. Triangulate back into noticing emotions.
At some point, if they're lucky, they'll discover their original plan. Now, notably, notably, notably, *part of the plan is to forget it was a plan*. That's the only way it can work. You can't have "Will execute a plan to be someone who X." because then you are someone who is
Now, when this person, maybe in therapy, rediscover this plan their feeling is exactly that of jumping up a level. They don't anymore have the existence of someone who doesn't feel emotions, but of someone who made that plan. They go "back to root access".
What I'm saying here is that the phenomenological experience of working with the mind does resemble getting deeper and deeper to a truer broader thing. That the currently experienced thing is but a slice of the actual thing.
If you read Ghosts of Consciousness, a phenomenological analysis of thought by arguably the foremost phenomenologist in the world you can follow along until at some point it goes so much deeper and precise that it is basically impossible to.
Or like go study Wilber's or Cook-Greuter's work on 'levels of consciousness'. Insofar as I can ascertain they seem to be correct about the earlier ones which leads me to believe they might be correct about the later ones too.
So what do you find at the very end, at the root of consciousness, at the ground of awareness? I don't know, but I've been wrong in thinking that 'this was it' before and found it to just be (another) virtual machine. Plausible to me that Braham is a fine description for it.