“I am led by my long experience to sense that waking life is something extremely similar to a form of dreaming, and that our actual nature is something so far beyond anything we can imagine that we actually have no location whatsoever in timespace. It appears that even our bodies belong to a category language and concepts could not survive the introduction of. Perhaps our ‘location’ is at once everywhere and nowhere, and something else, too. Perhaps our ‘identity’ is at once everyone and no one, and ‘someone else’ as well.

Something happens just prior to conception that begins a process so astonishing and bizarre, that our waking minds cannot contemplate it, for it would dissolve them in forces so strangely magnificent that our identities could not remain intact. And so the waking mind is at once an expression of all of this, and a protection from its discovery.

I do not think waking life is ‘just a dream within a dream’, but the waking mind is doing something that is an extension and peculiar inversion of a kind of dreaming, and thus ‘enlightenment’ is a word we use to describe obtaining a direct experience of this, which will always be unique and personal as well as universal and generally similar to other such experiences.

This might be like a glimpse of the actual nature of the context of being and relationships, which, again, lies so far beyond the common categories and concepts we are familiar with that while partly confirming these, it obliterates them at the same time.”

— an anonymous informant