Consciousness

Thank you, Peter!

I’ve so appreciated and loved all of the knowledge and experience you have imparted and the faith that you have had in me. Having that consistent support has been unbelievable, a real gift for me.

Zoe M

What shall we do about this radiance which is at the heart of life?

If our knowledge of the world is rooted in ignorance what does that mean for how we view the world?

If we do not know ourselves we profess an incoherent faith, we hymn a praise to success which brings us suffering.

We follow the nostrums of the foolish, we are forever dreaming up new activities which draw us further and further from the happy reality of our being.

If we long for a deeper understanding it will come to us.

We can ask for nothing less.

DELPHI BOOK Contents

If we are caught in a moment in the past – distant or immediate – we leave a trace. That continuity from ‘past’ to ‘past’ is a potential drag on the present. We come from where we have been.

But where we are now is a stepping stone to a future in which we create a virtuous spiral, a self-augmenting progression, which constructs a pathway to another discrete event unencumbered by the past.

This movement becomes a healing process for the aspiring mind, for each day is a new paragraph in the narrative. We create a future with a powerful and triumphant theme of renewal.


Two people meet: self-image meets self-image. Nothing happens.

Two people meet: my image of you misinterprets you; your image of me misunderstands me. We fight.

Two people meet: one remembers that he is seeing an image; he feels superior and begins to patronize the other. My image of superiority meets with your indignation. Image looks coldly on image. Image vows revenge.

Two people meet: they know about this; they don’t go down that road. They talk, also in silence, without comparison, without contrast, remembering who they are, remembering who is the other.

That is a different world.

Thus is a different world created.

Our own consciousness – manifesting on awakening each day with all its limitless variety – is right there in front of us, immediately accessible to our direct observation. So a serious enquiry into our own consciousness must yield some interesting insights into the nature of consciousness itself. We are like a scientist with a microscope, but we need to turn the instrument round and examine our own source.

What then is the significance of that moment when we turn and look at ourselves,

when there is an infolding in on itself of consciousness,

when ‘consciousness becomes conscious of consciousness’?

What then happens?

We need to find out.