Something in you is reading these words. Something else is watching you read them. The great contemplative traditions all arrived at the same recognition: consciousness is not produced by the world — the world arises within consciousness. The Vedic Yuga cycle tells us we have descended through ages of increasing density into the maximum contraction of Kali Yuga. But the descent was not a mistake. It was involution — consciousness forgetting itself so it might remember from the inside. The Witness does not awaken in comfort. It awakens at the nadir, when every strategy of the ego has exhausted itself. Which means this moment may be precisely what the cycle has been moving toward all along.
Numinous Waves 