What I think an awakening really involves, is a re-examination of our common sense.

We’ve got all sorts of ideas built into us, which seem unquestioned, obvious. And our speech reflects them; its commonest phrases.

‘Face the facts.’ As if they were outside you. As if life were something they simply encountered as a foreigner. ‘Face the facts.’

Our common sense has been rigged, you see? So that we feel strangers and aliens in this World. nd this is terribly plausible, simply because this is what we are used to. That’s the only reason.

But when you really start questioning this, say ‘Is that the way I have to assume life is? I know everybody does, but does that make it true?’ It doesn’t necessarily. It ain’t necessarily so.

So then as you question this basic assumption that underlies our culture, you find you get a new kind of common sense. It becomes absolutely obvious to you that you are continuous with the universe.