What is it like to experience Unity Consciousness? The following descriptions from practitioners of the TM program provide glimpses of this state of consciousness:

“Every day I have the experience of ‘I am Totality’ in my program. This is how I feel quite often during regular activity too. This ‘I am Totality’ isn’t just a program thing. It’s a walking-in-the-woods thing, an eating-lunch thing, and a driving-to-the-store thing. It is seeping into my daily life. This is so close to what I have always thought of as a Unity experience. I think my consciousness is changing—I feel it, I see it, and I know it.” —P.L.

“I see that I am everywhere, that my consciousness is everywhere and everything.” —I.G.

“Consistently at the end of the program, point and whole merge. I am aware of a specific object, but I see it as full, unbounded—even though filled with structure. The point does not disappear; it is only in the background. The attention can go into the boundary, but what predominates is wholeness. The specific object is as if a memory in the field of wholeness.” —F.T.

Throughout history, individuals have had experiences of this state of Unity. Here a few descriptions of this exalted state.“I found myself spreading everywhere and identical with a kind of ‘Space’ that embraced not merely the visible forms and worlds, but all modes and qualities of consciousness as well,” wrote the twentieth-century American mathematician and philosopher, Franklin Merrell-Wolff. “That totality was, and is, not other than myself.” Merrell-Wolff described his awakening to higher states of awareness in several books, including The Philosophy of Consciousness without an Object: Reflections on the Nature of Transcendental Consciousness, and Pathways through to Space, which lay out, albeit in his own terms, a process of unfoldment similar to the advanced stages of Consciousness described by Maharishi.