“Our personal identity is intimately related to the level of consciousness from and on which we operate. Therefore, a shift in our mode of knowing results in a shift in our basic sense of identity. Thus, while we are only utilizing the symbolic and dualistic mode of knowing, which separates the knowing subject from the known object, and then signifies the known object with an appropriate symbol or name, we likewise feel ourselves to be fundamentally distinct and alien from the universe, an identity that is signified by our role and our self-image, that is to say, the symbol-picture that we have formed of ourselves by dualistically becoming an object to ourselves. Non-dual knowledge, however, does not so operate, for […] it is the nature of the non-dual mode of knowing to be one with what it knows, and this obviously entails a shift in ones sense of identity.”--From The Spectrum of Consciousness by Ken Wilber, pp 40.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 12:51:32 +0000
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