A clarifying experience arises when the space of our subjective container shatters and merges with the space outside. The conditioned elements of our past—along with our view of the present and its projected future—dissolve and vanish. In effect, these elements unite, becoming one, and return to the universal ground from which they originated. Consequently, our self-reflective awareness and its meditative perspective now emerge from this universal ground—a space defined by the very wakeful attention that once constituted our old, conditioned consciousness. This awareness no longer binds our external senses to the objects they perceive—objects that were, in fact, projections from our own minds. This now becomes clear. The life of the collective consciousness transforms into a spectacle—a stage for the perpetual internal conflict between the opposites that animate it. We perceive this from within the universal ground, a space that reveals the primordial, timeless luminosity with which it endows us. This is something I have been unable to let go of since I experienced it a few years before turning thirty. It has remained with me ever since, though I have never found the words to truly do it justice. It is, in essence, a transition from a manufactured experience of life to the original one. Yet, placing it within a contemporary context, without my own or anyone else’s conduct distorting it, that is an entirely different matter.