Let’s go through a case of Higher Reason from Atmananda’s Atma Darshan. Here it is: “Objects have themselves no connection with each other–their connection is always with thought alone.”

Here, Atmananda is speaking loosely of “objects”; in this case he’s referring, say, to sensing: i.e., to hearing, to seeing, to smelling, etc. 

So, take experience 1: “There is seeing.” Then take experience 2: “There is hearing.” Ask: “Is there any [inherent] connection between 1 and 2?”

No, except insofar as a thought post hoc arises like: “Oh, there’s a robin” (experience 3). And, clearly, what’s aware of 1, 2, and 3 is witnessing awareness.

The fact that experiences make no contact with another is worth investigating further. It can seem puzzling, but it’s seeing that frees.

What’s assumed in the case that seeing-orange and tasting-sweetness make contact? Answer: That there’s a separate self “behind” the seeing-orange and the tasting-sweetness.

But is there? Or isn’t it just seeing-orange arising to awareness “and then” tasting-sweetness arising to awareness?