I often wonder when reading about various methods to achieve enlightenment or higher consciousness where are the people who would be examples of this? For instance has anybody from the Gurdjieff teaching presented himself to the world yet as having achieved Gurdjieff’s state of “being here” completely, or the Zen state of the same thing, of complete concentration? Why do we never hear in the news of people who have achieved anything like this?
Well… as the saying goes:
Those who say do not know, those who know do not say.
Well, the obvious answer is “because no one has achieved anything like this.”
I’d even go a step further and state that there is no evidence that enlightenment or higher consciousness even exists to be achieved.