The ego/mind, in its limited awareness, doesn’t realize it is looking, seeking for its true nature. The pure conscious awareness behind and within elicits the personal aspect of the ego/mind. The narrow boundaries and self-imposed restrictions of the ego, through no fault of its own, limit the search for context in the material domain. Rightly so, this has been the evolution of human consciousness and the function of the ego-centered personal appreciation of consciousness.
With the understanding and recognition of contracted energy within the body/mind organism, the narrow perspective of the personal ego/mind, and the human being’s condensation of physical limitations, the first thing that arises is a sense of here.
Here is the first thing that seems to be known, and at the same time, it feels secure and comfortable due to habituation because it looks real; what else is there to hang onto in our immediate experience? Out of this hereness comes an illusory center of the knowledge of I am. This ‘I am’ is then associated with a story of the immediate, the surrounding environment, including the personal mind/body organism that has an appearance called my life.
Part of my life experience arises as a need for meaning, purpose, and to know. The reality of this need turns into a continual experience of trying to learn more and more, a never-ending seeking of something unknown through acquiring more knowledge and more material objects to justify the inherent need for purpose and meaning. This entire description is an illusion; there is never a separate entity that needs to be known.
This need stems from a profound sense of incompleteness. It is the underlying contracted energy inherent in all misidentified human beings, overshadowed by the ramblings of an egoic mind.
This misidentification of the limited mind is the illusory experience of the individual, where a knowing appears as a thing or something else, which brings about a center of expertise to the appearance. This is the separation of realities from myself and another, the dualistic perspective that there is a meaning and purpose to all things and something seemingly called life.
The information of life always arises, and life, in its various expressions, continues to unfold in ever-changing objectivity. However, that sense of a center of knowing one seems to experience has no personal separate relation to the data of information streaming as life. It is just one wholeness of the movement of activity streaming simultaneously in the awareness of oneself—non-duality or Oneness.
The radical nature of Oneness is that what arises is Unknowing, and any change from this ultimate perspective of nothingness is a delusion. However, in our human capacity, the evolutionary state of our consciousness, whether awake to our authentic nature or not, we carry on interdependence with collective humanity.