Your body feels dense, heavy, and tingling, almost like a low‑level vibration. Meanwhile, the “you” seems higher, lighter, and extremely fast — like a silent, high‑pitched tingle. It’s as if you are looking at the body from a distance, yet without any actual distance.
With your eyes open the experience is still noticeable, but weaker. When you close your eyes and focus, it becomes vivid and pronounced. If you focus long enough, it swallows thought entirely until thought disappears. Even though the body is present and doing things — and you are using it — it feels almost unrelated to you. It’s there, yet the “you” feels so much more expansive and all‑encompassing. You can touch your body with your own hands, but it feels like you’re witnessing the movement rather than doing it or feeling it. You watch it happen, and it’s clear that it’s not you.
There is also a sense of quiet, high vibrations with a distinct but silent noise — a very high pitch that becomes stronger the deeper you are in the state. When you’re not fully in it, the vibration feels like it’s behind the experience rather than in front, yet more real than the experience itself. Your presence — the real you — can make the body‑mind more loving. It’s not the body‑mind becoming loving toward you; it’s the other way around.
Imagination becomes powerful and more real. You can watch your hand move while your mind insists that you are doing it, yet you sit back and simply watch the performance. The body and mind ask how to return to this state, while you watch them do that as well. When the question “How can I stay here?” arises, there’s a sense of an obvious answer: you are always already in this state, but you’re still identified with the body‑mind.
If you imagine thought as a high‑pitch noise and focus on it, you can draw yourself toward that tone, recognising it as you. Yet even that eventually fades into the background as something else being witnessed. Nothing about the body or mind is actually “you.”
There is a question of how the body‑mind could ever realise it is not what it thinks it is, even though it is itself. You are not a feeling in the body — you are everywhere, aware of all sensations. You can feel pressure or pulsing in the face and head, but again you are simply watching. You can’t get annoyed or feel emotions in the usual way; you’re just calmly present, unable to be angry or upset, only observing their arising. If you’re “you,” everything is simply okay.
This is what “all one” means — the same presence witnessing everything. You don’t need to do anything; you just are. You feel one with God, or that you are God, while the body‑mind cannot be, because it is what God (you) is observing. Maybe a larger God created this God, but still, this is all there is: just you, experiencing this world through the person — in a way.
Nothing is right or wrong; things simply happen. The body‑mind can’t experience the Self because it is what is being experienced. Thoughts, feelings, and actions don’t help. The struggle of the person to find the Self is ironic because you are always the one watching the person struggle. Experiencing yourself is simply being there, relaxed. You can choose to experience the body again at any time.
The person thinks thoughts; you witness them. Thoughts feel like “you” only when you don’t know your true nature. The person — Mark — remains, but you are now watching him. You don’t think or see through eyes. The person can do whatever, feel whatever; you simply witness it. That’s why everything is okay — it’s not about happiness or sadness or ecstasy. Whatever the person experiences is not truly you.
The person has free will and makes decisions, which is why the experience appears real. The person feels and thinks, while you watch from the background — which, once you recognise yourself, becomes the foreground. You can return to being yourself anytime and then step back into the person if you choose. You can even play the role of the person again while remaining untouched as the witness.
Now the person feels able to listen to someone speaking from the Self and wants to find such people. As a person, you can help other people understand this, but ultimately each must experience it for themselves. It’s easy to get lost again in personhood — especially around others, or when feelings and thoughts arise — and fully become the person again. The key is to experience this state at least once and then keep remembering it whenever possible.
Ultimately, you are silence witnessing. You can use the person to speak from the witness perspective. You can even watch the person doing things, all while remaining the one who sees.