Franklin Merrell-Wolf - I Am That

Am I this body of thoughts in my mind? no. One 

gets a little closer to his thoughts than to anything 

else, and it's a little harder to untangle this. But if he 

watches and studies closely enough, the thoughts 

come to me. I accept or reject them. 

That which accepts or rejects them is different from the thought. 

And then I finally reach this point where I find that 

I must be this something, in some sense, different 

from other people. I'm not the mind, I'm not the 

feelings, I'm not the body—that I see. But I surely 

am, I surely am an individual, apart from others.

now what you've gotten a hold of is a very 

difficult fellow—it's your ego. He can sneak around 

and confuse you like the dickens. You can spend 

years trying to get behind him. And what you do, 

you can get into an infinite regression. you look at 

your ego. All right, here am I and all of a sudden it 

dawns upon you that that which is looking at the 

ego is really the I. So you stick that one out in front. 

you look at it again, but then you realize it couldn't 

be, because here is a something that is observable. 

At last it finally dawns that I AM THAT which is 

never an object before Consciousness. And mayhap, 

at that moment, in your analysis—the Heavens will  open.

Franklin Merrell-Wolff, from "The Induction"