When that goes, there is peace. Then there is the discovery of the essential or true self. The real self is made out of pure essence and consciousness. It is luminous and pure and a source of love, compassion and goodness, with a sense of timelessness and spacelessness. That identity can go too. When that goes, there is another experience of peace which has to do with nonexistence. When that happens, there is the possibility of the arising of another identity, which we call the Supreme identity, for this identity is the self of the whole universe. The true identity is a reflection of a more universal, boundless identity, which is the nature of all that there is. You see yourself as everything, as the source of everything, not merely the source of your own body and thoughts. Then there is the possibility of losing even this cosmic self. This results in a new experience of peace, which is the experience of selflessness. Then there is no self to see you or anything: All that exists is ultimately empty and selfless. Then even that can go. The selflessness can go, which means going through fear and terror again. The selflessness goes because even selflessness is a concept. What is left then is absence, which is not anything left. – Diamond Heart Book Four: Indestructible Innocence, ch. 7