I agree with Harris that meditation can reveal a more fundamental reality, and even reveal fundamental reality. In meditation, we can let go of usual thinking, let go of conditioned or trained seeing, let go of learned concepts and definitions, and let go of expectations, judgments, and goals, and connect with what is. There are times that I let go of preconceived notions and judgments and feel a sense of oneness with all existence, which times are brief, special and fulfilling. What helps me have such times is that they are special and awesome. They are times of feeling outside my usual bodily boundaries and feeling some amount of oneness with all that is. They are times of being outside my usual views and at least somewhat into a universal connection.
On Mar 1, 2026 David Doane wrote :