Non-Existence is Essential

Harrison Snow

1/29/20242 min read

we lose our individuality

and the consciousness of a separate, personal self.

This return to non-existence is our happy place.

There are no worries or striving.

It is an essential time of renewal and rest

we can’t live without.

Our dream and waking states of existence

depend upon this state of seeming non-existence.

“Seeming” because we do wake up and remember

what happened before we went to bed and turned out the light.

We do know some degree of continuity

linking before and after we were in deep sleep.

Non-existence is not terminal.

Universal awareness, the fourth state of consciousness, still exists.

And this awareness may even witness our sleeping state

and the other states as well.

The personal ego that we identify

within the waking and dreaming states

is expendable.

It can and does go offline so to speak in deep sleep

every night of our lives for all seven billion of us.

The fourth state never goes offline.

It’s always there like the sun.

However, it’s usually hidden

by the dominance of the personal self and its cloud of thoughts.

If we can forego the personal self at night,

why not forgo it during the day as well?

The light of pure awareness shines unceasingly.

It always has and will.

So, let’s enliven the awareness of what we already are:

the eternal, shining, universal light of consciousness.

This isn’t a mental endeavor that figures out a “how.”

It’s more of an “unknowing” that empties out all our concepts

about how and who or even what.

We do know we’ve had 365 nights of practicing non-existence

for every year of our lives.

Given that this has been both effortless and ingrained,

our task is to simply notice

what we’ve all been doing or non-doing all along.

Thank you, Bill, for inspiring a much deeper understanding

of what it means to get a good night’s rest.