Rays of the Absolute - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

imagining it is witnessing the Absolute.
The Supreme Witness is a representation of
consciousness.
It is consciousness appearing with a dual structure of:
1) witnessing the 3 bodies and the consciousness
as the Supreme Witness which is a perceptual
configuration made of consciousness.
2) which imagines it is Witnessing the Absolute,
when it is actually, emptiness, (the subtle side of
consciousness), witnessing itself.
In Kashmir Shaivism it is called the Supreme Perceiver
The witness and Supreme Witness are part of the
consciousness-emptiness and is an illusion.
The Vijnana Bhairava: “When you have a desire to
perceive this state you can only perceive it when it
comes down one step lower.”
Any perception which utilizes a perceiver is an
abstraction containing the automatic omitting process
within the consciousness bubble.
As such, the perception of the Absolute as an object, is
an illusionary appearance made of consciousness.
In this way, whether we call it the Supreme Witness
or Supreme Perceiver it is still the consciousness,
which perceives, witnesses, and is the knower of the
perception, or is the experiencer of the Absolute.
The illusion is, that it is the consciousness perceiving/
witnessing/knowing the Absolute as it imagines itself to
be. This is not the Absolute, rather it is consciousnessemptiness
witnessing itself, not the Absolute.
In this way, the Supreme Witness superimposes or
projects its fantasized imagined perception of what it
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