Not Knowing Is The Gateway To Simply Being
As we know, even before the cognising mind labels things, we separate. As we don’t know, we reveal our innate oneness. What is “not knowing”? It is the acceptance that whatever is aware of these words right now is the essence of what you truly are (pause and take that in), a silent unfathomable conscious reality. It is the awareness of this reality directly, without the intermediary of being aware of phenomena the mind perceives, that is what I refer to as beingness.
Initially, “not knowing”, is a rational not knowing, which equates to what is specifically not known by the mind and for which it has no convincing evidence, based on direct experience, that aware beingness is dependent on the physical body, brain, and mind. This is rationality quietening itself. The mind admitting it does not know. Clearly seeing that if were to insist that consciousness is dependent on the mortal body this can only ever be a blind irrational belief. The mind does not like this somehow. In this it is forced by its own imperative for logic to accept the possibility that consciousness maybe the impersonal source of everything and the choice can be made to live as if this were true.
In the moment of this quietening, the reality of being shines through, free of limitation, like the sun shining out from between the clouds. What we refer to as a glimpse is the after effect of this. There is no attempt to become anything, just the revelation of what is already present. In this, there is no attempt to define it in any way. It is pure being, shining as pure being.
The most that knowing can recognise is that pure being is real, but it does not know what it is. At this point, knowing itself rests as being, and all is simply pure being. All is one. The experience of simply being speaks for itself. Its nature cannot be known but is directly experienced, and that is enough. Whatever is communicated about it in words at that point is, at best, a pointing to it.
The very act of thoroughly and rationally investigating and dismantling any evidence the mind may be holding onto, in whatever form, that unconsciously supports the belief that beingness is personal is tantamount to the Sun revealing itself from behind the clouds. This investigation is the heart of not knowing and is best done when there is not pressure of daily life. The more thorough this investigation is, the more convinced the mind can be that it truly does not know and naturally the wider the gaps of the sunlight of being are. Thus, the knowing of the world becomes contextualised in not knowing of being. So we can go about our daily business that requires us to know the world, basking in the not knowing of being.
Many teachers of non-duality have pointed to not knowing as an essential doorway to truth. Among these, Francis Lucille and his teacher Jean Klein offer a particularly clear and refined approach. They emphasise that what we truly do not know—but often unconsciously assume—is that consciousness is dependent on the brain and therefore mortal. This insight, grounded not in mystical belief but in careful observation of our own direct experience, serves as a powerful gateway into the recognition of aware being as our true impersonal, boundless nature. I follow in the footsteps of these teachers and offer gratitude for the insight they share, which I feel is truly helpful. Through gatherings such as The Universal Family, Context Awakening, Natural Wealth, and Beingness Speaking meetings, as well as one-to-one spiritual counselling, I invite others into this space of radical openness, where truth reveals itself not through knowing, but through simply being.
With love,
Freyja