It is important though, I think, to have a sense of what these different models of consciousness have to tell us, because it means then that we are thrown back into our own experience. This is a phrase that John Main uses many times when he describes meditation as a way that leads us into our own experience and we verify the truths of our faith in our own experience. And this means that in our own experience, we’re not thinking about models of reality. We’re not applying theories to experience, we are actually allowing the experience directly, the primary experience, the experience of God, the experience of the self, to teach us and form us and transform us.
( Breakthrough by Laurence Freeman OSB )
