So here is some logic for ya. I was confused by language and lack of clarity about 'direct experience'. This is what I got: Direct experience is always there, and is not affected by how we call it. Our labeling or interpreting is just a small portion of what the (total) experience is. We can notice that experiencing anything can only take place "now". We can also notice that what we call an object is an experience (the thing directly without having thought about it). When we notice the feeling (the undeniability of it), we can notice it cannot be pinned down, or we cannot exactly know what it is. Stopping 'right there' with the experience (like " ok I feel it") is a kind of labeling it, and its not actuality, or reality. Stopping is not true. Actuality is in fact unstopable. It is " one", not separate, Is it? So noticing that the experience, the feeling cannot be known or understood, and noticing it changing and it at the same time being in a "field of experience" we can "get" that this is just what is, infinity; it has no end, and no beginning. We can actually call it whatever we want, it is unnameable and always this. cheers!

Hi everyone, Has anyone else ever noticed a sort of thing going on in their experience where you do a lot of things, decide to live your life in a certain way and engage in things, but somewhere in there, underneath, you can't help feeling like there's something you're mising? Like right under your nose influencing all of that behavior? I feel like I've got a lot of that going on right now, and like, being wrapped up in everything that this idea tells me to do causes me suffering and leaves me separate from a deeper connection with what's true. I'm starting to have some separation from it, and am beginning to question it, and am just wondering if anyone else has had similar experiences?

Just finished listening to this on Audible, I also have the book. Unsurprisingly it’s difficult to find words to describe it. It felt like Peter was reading my mind as he wrote, knowing what mischief my mind and self were likely to be up to as I listened and calling them out. When I finally got to the end I fell quiet and felt peaceful, if a bit beaten up. How do you follow that? I asked myself - I still have one - working in progress. The answer was loud and clear - ‘The Book of Not Knowing’ start all over again. Looking forward to listening to it for the umpteenth time with new ears and a better grasp. What a privilege to have Peter’s work in our lives. Thank you.

The only thing keeping us from enjoying the Absolute freedom is our insistence on holding onto the heavy-handed human interpretation that we are limited little monkey-persons who need to figure it all out and carry the weight of the world on our shoulders. So, what do we do? The trick is to be artful. This is truly the lazy man’s yoga. We don't need to change our behavior, stop our thoughts, or move to a cave in the Himalayas. Or dig in the muck of our past.... All we do is notice what is actually happening right here, right now. The simplest approach is to direct our attention to actuality, unencumbered by interpretation. Feel the texture of your experience. Look at the field of vision, listen to the sounds in the room, feel the tingling sensations in the body, and even observe the thoughts popping up in the head. Don't slap a label on them. Don't tell them what they are. Just dive into the texture of experience like reading Braille. Feel the buzzing, scintillating, raw energy of the experiencing itself. It’s an astounding explosion of energy! When we let ourself playfully trip out on the actual concrete nature of this present experiential field, we discover that WE CANNOT pin it down. It’s entirely unresolvable. It's a complete mindfuck but it's wonderfully advantageous. Alert Idiocy!

It's that time again, Peter is building the big newsletter. If you have some good pictures or consciousness related cartoons or images please send me some. You can send them in a message here for consideration. Cheers!