After seeing through the emptiness of personality, old mental or emotional reactions still occasionally arise in the mind. They are recognized early and let go.
What is actually happening: 1. A sensation or thought appears. 2. Awareness sees it without calling it “me” or “mine.” 3. No energy is given to it—attention does not linger or spin stories. 4. It dissolves back into emptiness.
This is not an issue. It is the clearing of leftover habits of identification.
There is no grand intellectual creator behind this; the whole play unfolds spontaneously. No intellect is running it.
Look into your own experience. Spirituality is simply understanding this play of awareness. Try to see through the illusion by tracing it back to its source.
Consciousness cannot exist without Awareness. But Awareness can exist without Consciousness, as in deep sleep. AWARENESS is ABSOLUTE. Consciousness implies a subject and object, a duality. Awareness does not; it is singular.
All world spirituality after the Axial Period is false. It is based on the belief in a personality. This is false. This falsehood creates the cult of a Savior—an external figure to redeem that supposed self.
The Axial Period (roughly 800–200 BCE) saw the rise of major religious frameworks that emphasized personal salvation, relationships with deities, and often reinforced a solid, separate self. The Axial Age (Jaspers’ term) included: Upanishadic Hinduism (though some Upanishads point to non-duality, popular worship turned to personal gods). Buddhism (whose core of anātman was later institutionalized into a religion of seeking). Jainism. Second Temple Judaism (moving toward monotheism and messianic hope). Greek philosophy (with a few exceptions, mostly dualistic). Zoroastrianism (with its cosmic dualism).
The Axial & Post-Axial Deviation: Institutionalized religions, craving structure and mass appeal, built their doctrines around the assumed reality of the individual soul or personality. Once you accept a real self, you create its inherent problems: sin, ignorance, bondage, suffering. The Necessary Savior: A real self with real problems demands a real solution from outside itself—hence the “Savior” archetype (Christ, Krishna as an object of devotion, Amitabha Buddha, the personal God of Islam).