✦ Common sense says that consciousness appears–somehow–inside the head. It’s also thought to be personal, private, limited, and localized. Is it?

✦ Common sense turns out not only to be incorrect but also to be the cause of suffering.

✦ What if consciousness is actually headless–that is, spacious, open, vast, and free? Let’s find out.

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The Heart Of The Matter

★ In this experiential exploration, I draw on 2 important contemporary approaches: one, “the headless way”; two, “the direct path teaching of Advaita Vedanta.”

★ Both provide us with ways of experientially seeing that, in this case, each of us, from a first-person point of view, has no head.

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To Explore On Your Own 1.) The Headless Way offers a number of wonderful first-person experiments on its website.

2.) For a very methodical and quite rigorous approach to direct experience, read–and go through the experiments in–Greg Goode’s excellent book The Direct Path: A User Guide.