Hi Jana,

Sorry for the delay in responding. I was on a ski trip and didn't have the time to give to this the last few days.

Is this something you can directly experience? Or is it a thought based conclusion, e.g experience of a thought which is taken to be true. Very simply, is it possible to ...

Where is the consciousness that is separate from the body and reality? Describe it in detail, location, shape size?
How are memories a function of consciousness. Are memories different from thoughts about the future? If so how?

Location: All around us as a detectable energy field that is felt as ...

Can you see this?

Yes. I can see that the thought of a cup is not the same as an actual physical cup.
But that was not what I was communicating previously. You asked how does it feel in the body to sit with the idea that there is no "separate self". I answered that I don't feel anything about ...

yes agreed, and it has been shown that babies eyes dilate very large when shown a picture of a snake, but not at a picture of a knife for example. Evolution likely dictates.. avoiding a snake is related to survival, a knife maybe or maybe not.

This is unsatisfying as an answer because it leads to ...

I've had the experience of mistaking a rope for a snake and the body will jump as though there is a snake.

But a thought programmed this reaction because you'd have to have encountered a snake to recognize the shape and position as such. It would be connected to a memory. Would a baby know to ...

In your experience is there a me or self that is "driving" it? Is there a real me/self, something apart from another thought about a me/self that is linking and driving and processing?

I don't know what correlates the three. There is no "me"/"self" causing the experienced events. They just happen ...

How exactly does the act of processing happen in DE?
Can a thought do something? Can a thought process itself or another thought?
Is processing something other than thinking? If so can you describe it in detail?
It is the same as thinking. But direct experience is just the body experiencing the ...

In your examples of feeling someone looking at you and turning or getting a phone call from a missed loved one. Is it "you" doing it?
The feeling is a direct experience in the present. It is something observable just like seeing something and noting it's image/color. Is it "me" doing it? No. But ...

Firstly, let me say thank you Jana for your patience with this long treatise of explanation.

Sit quietly and point with your finger to where you are? Where did you point?
I really had nowhere concrete to point to but I pointed back towards my body because I do believe that there is <something ...

What do you mean by "concrete"?
There is no evidence to point to about the past or the future. It is abstract and exists only in the realm of thought (via memories or plans). If coming from a place of direct experience, one cannot have direct experience of the past or the future. Direct experience ...

Is there anything other than the present?
There is nothing concrete other than the present.

Where are they coming from and going to?
They are coming from nowhere. They are not going anywhere.
But they may be translated into speech and communicated through sound to comprise someone else's ...

If you will, give it a go again and let me know how it goes..
Ok. I think I understand better. Let me try again.

Seeing blankets, simply= image/color
Smelling sheets, simply = smell
Feeling softness/warmth, simply = sensation
Hearing blankets rustle, simply = sound
Thought about getting into bed ...

Please let me know if you have questions.
I do have a question about what it is that is desired in the format. It seems to me that as soon as I am translating what I see/hear/smell/feel/taste into words to type into a response, the observation leaves the realm of DE and enters the realm of ...

Post several of your own observations in a list *exactly* like the one above, please.
Ok. Here are three examples.

Cooking Bacon for Breakfast
See: Marbling of fat (white) and meat (pink) that makes up the strips of bacon of about 1/8-in thickness.
Smell: The distinctive smell of bacon as the fat ...

Do you agree that you can only be 100% certain by looking?

Yes. I agree. I am clear on the concept and I will do the exercises as stated. Do you have an exercise for me? Thank you for your time with me on this.