I love your stuff Lex, saw about 20 podcasts and decided to respond, but not without sending you a tropical huh from Brazil first. To Lee I like to say 1 thing as a respons to his remarks about consciousness, as a mistic like to say, that consciousness cannot be known in an intellectual sense. Let me put it this way, there is the "known" the "unknown" that which we may come to know one day, but there is something which goes beyond knowledge, the "unknowable". Some have called it god, allah, tao, brahman.... Cutting short, there are various states of consciousness, personal, collective and universal, but saying that the mind is to limited to be capable to understand. Patânjali says it very beautifull, "The way to know truth" (Samadhi Pada) the practice of meditation is the way, (Pada) means observe the inner, this is what meditation is. Through meditation we become aware of that which observes, Sakshi, this leads to a correct perception, enlightenment --  tropical hug from Brazil to ye all -- 🙏