Consciousness: From intangible to be known as your true Self

In the beginning, the Self as consciousness or pure awareness may seem intangible or theoretical, simply because your awareness isn't usually put on this discovery. Awareness is always already in the background of your experience, and even to somehow feel it in the background implies that you are already aware of it. Something is here that is unchanging, alert, undisturbed, vast. Some people feel it as the presence surrounding them, or simply as the infinite field of God. Seeing awareness or consciousness outside yourself comes from seeing it through the mind and the senses. To come to know what you are means to leave the sensory and identified perception of the person, to step back into the view from awareness and to discover yourself as this vast essence, impersonal, peaceful, happy, loving, and free. When you do, what seemed to be in the background moves to the foreground, and what seemed so real becomes known to you as appearances dancing.