Rupert says that enlightenment is simply the recognition of the nature of your being. All that is being spoken of is just the ordinary, intimate, obvious, familiar being that enables each of us to say with absolute certainty, I am. Not some extraordinary, mystical, enlightened being—all 8 billion of us can say I am. It is the least exotic experience there is. Even the taste of tea is by comparison exotic. The reason you haven’t quite yet recognised your own being is precisely because it is so close, so simple, so familiar, so intimate. Just close your eyes. Have the thought I am. And then go to the experience in yourself to which those words refer.

Spira discusses how awareness is not actually limited like our minds and senses are. He points out that just as all spaces are connected, consciousness could be one unified field behind the multiplicity of perceptions. Our culture conditions us to equate consciousness with the limits of personal experience, but awakening to what deeply knows experience reveals awareness to be boundless.

Rupert invites us to take a direct look at the present moment. His succinct investigation leads to stunning revelations about the nature of pure consciousness.