Dear Will, < "There are countless levels to awareness and by practicing EOM consistently, you will encounter each of them, one after the other. " > >> This was in response to a query regarding emptiness of mind. What is the origin and nature of these layers. << This phenomena comes about as the eternal mental body descends into the temporal realm. This descent is into successively denser layers of manifestation: mental, astral and physical. From the eternal perspective, there is no perception of "layering", per se, but rather a holistic perception of Self composed of countless, integrated aspects. However, because we are disentangling ourselves from the dense and chaotic state of mundane awareness and looking within toward the quieter state of (eternal) BEing -- *and* doing so with the sequential aspect of our awareness -- we perceive a sequence of successively more and more rarified "layers". This sense of sequencing is due to the nature of sequential awareness which is incapable of comprehending the whole spectrum of awareness all at once -- sequential awareness must comprehend this infinity one small bit at a time. So we experience it as a rising "upward" by stages or steps. The nature and sequence of each of these layers is fairly predictable and can be equated to ascending the Tree of Life.. My best to you, :) Rawn Clark 24 Dec 2004 rawnclark@... rawn@... http://www.ABardonCompanion.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis http://E.webring.com/hub?ring=arionthebardonwe