Atmananda’s teaching, often referred to as the Direct Path or the Direct Method, elegantly shows that everything is Consciousness.

Essentially, what one discovers through various prakriti–or lines of inquiry–is that any experience that appeared to be outside of Consciousness necessarily is within Consciousness.

To offer up two metaphors: First, you may find that what was believed to be outside of Consciousness “gets flipped” so that it’s understood properly as always having been inside of Consciousness.

Second, applying the principle that in order for the subject to apprehend any object the latter must be of the nature of the subject (e.g., in order for the mind to apprehend some object, the latter must be of the nature of thought), one comes to understand that every experience is “dipped in” and, indeed, is “dripping with” Consciousness.

In fact, so “dunked into” Consciousness is every experience that it is seen directly to be none other than Consciousness.

The result is that one can “let one’s hair down” just because the sense of separation, of an inside and an outside begins, with each investigation that confirms the understanding, to fade away.