The Divine Intelligence at the Origin of Religion

"When I am ‘being aware’, my presence lights my experience. When I am ‘aware of being’, it’s as if the rays of the sun concentrate on the nucleus. Is there a difference? Rupert says: ‘I use different phrases because they appeal to different people – they’re synonymous in meaning. The danger with “awareness of being” is that it suggests subject-object relationship. Even when we understand there isn’t one, we tend to think awareness performs self-reflection to know itself. That’s not true. The mind has to self-reflect – that’s self-enquiry. But awareness knows itself without self-reflection, just by being. The sun doesn’t turn its light around to shine on itself. There’s no self-reflection in awareness; only the mind has to self-reflect. You said, “I cannot look for myself outside of myself” – exactly. You can only search for something other than yourself. The eyes cannot see themselves. At some stage, when you understand this, you stop looking. You cannot be what you know, and you cannot know objectively what you are.’"

From event 27 February - 01 March, 2026 The Nature of Consciousness – Online Weekend Retreat at Home 27 February–1 March 2026

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