Thusness' Six (seven) Stages of Awakening is the blog article that "woke me up" after thinking, for years, that my ayahuasca ego deaths were the ultimate Nirvana that Buddha and all other sages must have been pointing at.
Thusness explains his own stages of awakening, which begin with witnessing and then becoming everything (the advaita and psychedelic ego death experience), and onto realization of the disjoint, non-witnessed reality that Buddha called Nibbana.
In reading Thusness' piece, you may at first feel it is impossible to understand. That's ok. As you gain more experience and contemplate more the automatic, conditional nature of all reality, including your "self", re-read his piece and it will make more sense each time.
Thusness explains his own stages of awakening, which begin with witnessing and then becoming everything (the advaita and psychedelic ego death experience), and onto realization of the disjoint, non-witnessed reality that Buddha called Nibbana.
In reading Thusness' piece, you may at first feel it is impossible to understand. That's ok. As you gain more experience and contemplate more the automatic, conditional nature of all reality, including your "self", re-read his piece and it will make more sense each time.