in the meditative state of nothingness, the existence of consciousness is freed from how we identify with it

The nothingness we experience so intensely when we see it through our own nature can be extremely frightening to us if we are mentally completely unprepared for it when it appears within us. We think that everything is over when we encounter it in any of the relationships we have to the world around us, or to it as a whole. Not that it makes us see creation as something within ourselves and others independent of them and the wishes and demands we want them to fulfill for us so that we don’t have to confront it, and the change in our attitude to our meditative attention it entails. It is truly a frightening devastation it creates around the special position that the ego has had until this occurs within us. But at the same time it also draws our attention to the source of the act of creation itself, the underlying qualities that surround it and whose origin is defining for different psychological states of consciousness within us, and also to what the relationship looks like around us to them. We see clearly the meditative self-observational logic that surrounds it within us and that it imposes a task on us in our own personal relationship to it. Were it not for this experience, the pressure from nothingness in its relationship to the emergence and content of consciousness would be overwhelming and we would perish by it. The step to seeing nothingness as space itself, its expansion as consciousness, and approaching it with the logic of the psyche as an integral part of the experiences we have when we interact with the qualities that appear in our preconscious background, makes us also seek creation reflected through the content of the night sky and in a mixed version of psychic content with cosmic events, and is something we have done since the dawn of time. Although today it seems to be more about the energy that formulates its content than about the context and significance of the underlying objective content in relation to its internal order. Anyway, we can never escape the fact that where space ends, nothingness begins. Whether we see it within ourselves or as a cosmic limitation of all existence.