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There is a deep, very deep, level of meditation where we have the same experience as dreamless sleep but keep our awareness. Because the ego with its thoughts and emotions, its motives, desires, and calculations is no longer present, it must be described as a condition of generalized being. (The oft-used term "universal" is not quite accurate.)
-- Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity > Chapter 3 : The States of Consciousness > # 173