Meditation for those who’ve begun to suspect that even silence is a sound
What if the most incredible illusion is not what we see, but that we believe we can see it all?
We like to think of ourselves as explorers of reality, spelunking bravely into the dark crevices of the unknown. And yet… we are printers. Reality comes to us in higher dimensions, deeper truths, impossible harmonics—and we render it as best we can on a 2D page of time, space, and logic. Beautiful, yes. But always… flattened.
Send a tenth-dimensional truth into the psyche, and it prints out as a metaphor. Transmit a nondual frequency and we hear it as poetry. The mystery passes through our minds like a neutrino—untouched, ungrasped, unnamed.
And still we name it.
We say silence.
We say the Absolute.
We say self-aware source.
But even these are printed words—ink running down the glass of what cannot be captured.
We imagine a reality beyond ours, but do so using the colors we perceive. We speak of things “beyond vibration,” yet we still vibrate when speaking. Even our most profound mysticism echoes within the cave walls of cognition.
To ask, “Is there something that is not noise or silence?” is to ask, “Can we escape the very system that forms our asking?”
What if the Absolute is not some high abstraction or spiritual attainment, but what’s left when the entire architecture of experience collapses?
No observer.
No field.
No reflection.
Not darkness. Not light. Not even void.
Just the ceasing of ceasing. A no-place where even non-being doesn’t arise.
And still… something in us trembles near this.
The mystics didn’t get there. They didn’t arrive.
They fell through. They vanished.
What was left?
Not a revelation. Not a concept.
But a non-event of impossible intimacy.
If your mind feels undone by this, good. You’re not broken. You’re just beginning to sense the walls.
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John Harper is a longtime teacher, guide, and human development student whose work bridges psychology, spirituality, and deep experiential inquiry. He is the author of The Enneagram World of the Child: Nurturing Resilience and Self-Compassion in Early Life, also available on Amazon.