Imagine waking up one morning without your habitual thoughts or feelings. Imagine you have no thoughts about some event or task that will happen later. Nothing is circling. You have none of those thoughts without real reason or meaning, no song lingering in your mind since yesterday.

Imagine instead that something else appears. Something that has more awareness. More self-awareness. More definite, more connected to a state of awareness. It does not leave you, at least not for long and not completely, while you wash, drink coffee, eat breakfast. And perhaps it comes and goes during that time, but keeps retrieving itself.

Imagine you know that you help it to stay by doing each task one at a time. You know that when you hurry too much or listen too much to thoughts and feelings that appear, it recedes, even vanishes. Imagine that perhaps you are part of a spiritual community and that after some time now in this work, your mind offers less clutter, more quiet. You even choose with some success which thoughts to listen to, so that this awareness can occupy the space.

Imagine this might be a state where higher worlds or higher centers touch you, however lightly. You start to perceive yourself as some kind of vessel to support these higher states. You feel this union of body and soul, of human and divine. Perhaps then feelings of humble gratitude arise in you, of an incredible sense of good fortune. Your doubts fall away, and you are truly at home. You feel now that you truly exist. Imagine such a wonderful miracle could be true and be real for somebody in the year 2022.

The author is a long-time Fourth Way student living in Brussels, Belgium.