S01/E12: “I Am Emptiness” – The Spacious Self Beneath All Form

Introduction

Welcome back to the Martfotai podcast.

In our journey through Integration, we’ve been dissolving layers of what you’re not, to reveal more clearly what you are. We discovered how attention feeds identity in “I Am Attention,” how intention directs energy and shapes your life in “I Am Intention,” how the Observer witnesses without interference, and how stillness remains when you cease to react.

Each episode peeled away another layer of identification, another way you mistake temporary movements in consciousness for your permanent identity. Shadow work revealed the disowned parts. Attention showed you the force that feeds whatever you focus on. Intention aligned your energy with conscious direction. The Observer gave you the space to witness without becoming. Stillness revealed what never moves beneath every reaction.

But there’s something even deeper than stillness to discover. Something that contains stillness itself, that holds the Observer, that is the space in which attention moves and intention arises.

Today we explore what you are when every identity dissolves completely, the spacious awareness that contains all experience without being limited by any of it.

We’re entering new territory now, the Expansion arc. Where Integration focused on stabilising and purifying the functions of consciousness, Expansion explores what happens when the boundaries of the personal self begin their gentle dissolution. This isn’t about losing yourself. It’s about discovering what you actually are beneath every temporary formation you’ve mistaken for identity.

The word “emptiness” might trigger fear. In our culture, empty means lacking, deficient, meaningless. We’re terrified of the void, of nothingness, of disappearing into irrelevance. The ego believes that if it’s not solid, substantial, and central, then nothing exists.

But there are two kinds of emptiness, and confusing them creates unnecessary suffering.

There’s the emptiness of lack, feeling hollow, drained, purposeless. This is the ego’s experience when its stories collapse but nothing deeper has been recognised. It’s the void that terrifies, the depression that follows when meaning systems fail but no deeper ground has been discovered.

And there’s the emptiness of space itself, the pregnant stillness from which everything emerges and to which everything returns. This is not absence but pure presence, not nothing but the source of everything. It’s the creative void that mystics have pointed to throughout history, the fertile silence from which all thoughts, all insights, all love spontaneously arises.

Today we discover the difference between feeling empty and being emptiness itself. Between the void that terrifies and the space that liberates. Between the ego’s collapse and consciousness recognising its own boundless nature.

This recognition will change everything about how you relate to experience. Instead of being tossed by every thought and emotion, you’ll discover you are the unmoving space in which they all arise and pass away. Instead of defending boundaries that were never real, you’ll rest in the limitless awareness that needs no protection because it can never be threatened.

So, let’s explore what you are when every boundary dissolves.

Section 1: The Two Emptinesses

Consider someone sitting in their car after a difficult meeting at work. The criticism from their boss still echoes in their mind. They feel hollow, drained, like nothing they do matters. Their chest feels concave, as if something vital has been scooped out. This is one kind of emptiness, the ego’s experience when its defences collapse and its stories fail.

Later that day, during a moment of deep quiet while walking alone, perhaps deep in nature, their internal commentary suddenly stops. The voice that usually judges, explains, and reacts simply isn’t there. Yet they’re completely present, more aware than before. Their chest opens naturally, their breathing deepens without effort. There’s a sense of expansion rather than contraction, of spaciousness rather than lack. This is consciousness recognising its own boundless nature.

These two emptinesses feel completely different in the body. Ego-emptiness creates a hollow sensation in the chest, a sense of deflation, often accompanied by anxiety or despair. The body feels drained, heavy, collapsed inward. There’s a quality of grasping, of trying to fill the void with anything: noise, activity, distraction.

Consciousness-emptiness feels spacious and light. The chest opens like a cathedral, the breath flows freely, there’s a sense of unlimited room rather than cramped limitation. You feel empty like the sky feels empty, vast and open rather than lacking. The body relaxes into its natural posture, no longer braced against some imaginary threat.

There’s a crucial distinction between two kinds of emptiness that emerges in psychological work, called “negative emptiness” and “positive emptiness.” Negative emptiness is the ego’s experience of loss, lack, meaninglessness. It’s what happens when the false meanings imposed by personality and social conditioning collapse, yet nothing deeper has been recognised to take their place.

Positive emptiness is consciousness recognising its own limitless, unbound nature. It’s the discovery that what appeared to be nothing is actually full with everything. This emptiness is the presence of unlimited potential, like the silence between notes that makes music possible.

The terror comes from confusing these two states. When people first touch genuine emptiness in meditation, in moments of presence, or during life transitions when old identities dissolve, the ego interprets this through its own lens of lack, and panics. “I’m disappearing! I’m losing myself! Nothing matters!”

Yet what’s actually happening is the most liberating recognition possible. You’re discovering you are something far vaster than the solid, separate person with all its stories, defences, and accumulated identities. You are the aware space in which that person appears, like a character appearing in a dream.

The fear of meaninglessness is actually freedom from false meanings. True meaning, the kind that doesn’t depend on external validation or personal achievement, can only emerge after you’ve passed through this seeming meaninglessness. It’s like clearing a field before planting, emptying a cup before filling it with something fresh.

Watch what happens every night in deep sleep. The ego-self completely disappears. Your name, your history, your problems, your carefully constructed personality, all gone. Yet something remains aware. Something wakes up. Something dreams. That something is what you actually are, the awareness in which all dreams appear.

This points to emptiness as your natural state, what consciousness is like when free from false personality, social conditioning, and mechanical reactions. You were born empty in this sense, a clear vessel capable of receiving life directly. Children begin clean, before accumulating the false beliefs, borrowed opinions, and defensive strategies that create the sense of being a solid, separate self.

The recognition of consciousness-emptiness doesn’t eliminate the person you appear to be. Your personality, relationships, and responsibilities remain. But now, they’re no longer the foundation of your identity. They become temporary expressions of something infinite, like waves on an endless ocean.

Feel this right now. Notice how something is aware of these words without effort, without strain, without needing to be anything in particular. That effortless awareness, vast and open, that’s what you are when every identity dissolves.

Section 2: Neutrality and Higher Reason

Emptiness serves a precise function in conscious development: it creates the conditions necessary for higher-order cognitive and emotional processing. Modern neuroscience reveals that when the mind is cluttered with reactive patterns, the prefrontal cortex, responsible for executive function and rational decision-making, becomes compromised. Genuine reason and impartiality require what researchers call “cognitive space,” the neurological equivalent of mental silence.

True emptiness emerges when you stop feeding the automatic stress-response cycles that hijack conscious processing. When irritation arises, instead of becoming the irritation, you simply witness it without adding fuel. When judgement appears, you see it as temporary neural activity rather than ultimate truth about reality.

This requires recognising that reactions are optional. They feel inevitable, urgent, completely justified, yet they’re simply electrochemical patterns firing through well-worn neural pathways, like reaching for your phone the moment you feel bored.

Feel what this is like in your body right now. Bring to mind something that usually disturbs you. Notice the immediate response: tightening in your chest, subtle clenching in your jaw, the way your shoulders rise slightly. This is your sympathetic nervous system preparing for battle against something that exists primarily as mental content.

Now simply witness this reaction without becoming it. Don’t try to change or fix anything, just observe. Watch how the physical tension begins to soften when you’re neither fighting the reaction nor identifying with it. Feel how your breathing naturally deepens when you stop defending a position that was never under real threat.

As you cease identifying with the emotional charge, notice what emerges. A spacious neutrality where genuine understanding becomes possible. Your chest opens rather than contracts. Your posture naturally straightens. This is your parasympathetic nervous system allowing higher cortical functions to come online, the way a clear processor operates without interference.

From this emptiness, responses arise that serve the actual situation rather than defend imaginary positions. Words emerge that communicate rather than protect ego. Actions flow from wisdom rather than compulsion. You can feel the difference in your body, a sense of alignment rather than the subtle warfare of reactivity.

When the mental noise stops, you can think clearly without all your usual biases getting in the way. It’s like stepping back far enough to see the whole situation instead of just your piece of it.

Information begins to arrive with a clarity and authority beyond ordinary thinking. Solutions appear that transcend the limited perspectives of reactive consciousness. Understanding manifests that encompasses broader contexts, seeing situations from multiple angles simultaneously rather than from the narrow tunnel vision of stress response.

This creates what the Work calls impartiality, a complete neutrality, where opposing forces are balanced. No situation triggers automatic limbic hijacking. Events simply occur without the added layer of internal commentary or reaction. You become like a clear processing system that receives data without distortion.

In daily life, this manifests as freedom from being disturbed by external circumstances you cannot control. Political events, other people’s opinions, criticism, praise, all become equally interesting data rather than personal threats or validations. The usual triggers gradually lose their power to hijack your attention through conditioned response patterns.

Enhanced perception becomes possible because impressions are received directly without being filtered through preconceptions or emotional reactions. The world is experienced with fresh processing rather than through the lens of accumulated judgements.

The capacity for emotion and thought remains fully available when consciously chosen. You haven’t suppressed anything, simply stopped being unconsciously controlled by mechanical patterns. From this impartial neutral ground, authentic responses can emerge, responses that serve conscious evolution rather than merely survival programming.

Section 3: The Rich Silence and Stopping Commentary

One of the most practical aspects of emptiness is the complete cessation of internal dialogue. Most people are so identified with the voice in their head that they can’t imagine existence without it. Yet that voice is mechanical mental activity that keeps consciousness fragmented and reactive, like a radio left on in the background, creating constant noise.

Try this right now: for the next thirty seconds, don’t think anything at all. Don’t control thoughts or push them away, simply don’t generate any mental commentary whatsoever.

1. What happened? If you’re like most people, you probably managed a moment or two of genuine silence before thoughts crept back in. Maybe you started thinking about the exercise itself, or noticed sounds around you and began commenting on them, or suddenly remembered something you need to do later. You might have even forgotten what you were trying to do and found yourself completely lost in thought.

This isn’t failure – it’s revelation. Notice how automatic mental commentary really is. The mind generates thoughts constantly, like a radio that can’t be turned off. Most people live their entire lives with this background chatter running continuously, never experiencing even thirty seconds of genuine mental silence.

Yet in those brief moments when the commentary did stop – even for just a few seconds – something profound was revealed: you exist perfectly well without mental noise. In fact, you’re more present, more aware, more yourself when the internal chatter ceases, even briefly.

Imagine living an entire life where you can’t stop thinking for even thirty seconds. Where every experience is immediately converted into mental commentary, judgment, or analysis. Where genuine silence becomes almost impossible to access. For most people, this isn’t imagination – it’s reality.

The good news is that those moments of stopping, however brief, point to something extraordinary: the capacity for true mental silence exists within you, waiting to be developed.

This is what the traditions call “silence in heaven.” When the mental machinery stops completely, a profound quietude emerges. The natural stillness of consciousness when the agitation of thinking subsides. It’s like stepping out of a noisy factory into pristine countryside, or when the air conditioning switches itself off suddenly, the silent relief is immediate and palpable.

Here’s a unique insight that changes everything: the gap between thoughts isn’t empty, it’s full of intelligence. When you stop thinking, you don’t become stupid, you become aware of a different kind of knowing. This intelligence doesn’t think about problems, it sees through them. It doesn’t analyse situations, it recognises their essential nature immediately.

Test this for yourself. Next time you face a decision, instead of thinking it through, stop all mental commentary for just ten seconds, or longer if you are able. Let the question rest in the silence. Often, you’ll find that understanding arises that’s clearer and more complete than anything thinking could produce. This isn’t intuition or guesswork, it’s direct knowing.

Let the mental commentary about these words simply stop. Don’t engage with thoughts about whether you understand or agree. Simply receive the words in open awareness, like a clear lake receiving reflected images. Your entire nervous system relaxes when freed from the constant effort of mental processing.

The difference between this and suppression is crucial. Suppression involves pushing thoughts away, creating inner conflict, building pressure that eventually explodes. True cessation is simply choosing not to generate thoughts in the first place. The capacity for thinking remains fully available, like a musician who can play any note yet chooses silence.

From this creative silence, thoughts can arise when actually needed, fresh and appropriate to the moment. You’re no longer driven by the compulsive need to have an opinion about everything you encounter. The endless internal committee that used to debate every decision has disbanded.

This emptiness reveals itself as full with infinite potential. Where do thoughts actually come from? You don’t manufacture them in some mental factory. They simply arise from unknown depths and present themselves to awareness. Where do insights emerge from? Where does creativity bubble up from? Where does love originate?

All of it arises from the same mysterious source, the fertile void that is your deepest nature. Like dreams emerging from deep sleep, experiences bloom spontaneously from the creative emptiness of consciousness. You begin to sense this generative principle operating beyond personal will or effort.

The silence between words makes language possible. The pause between musical notes creates rhythm and melody. The space between thoughts allows awareness to know itself. This emptiness is the womb from which all experience is born.

When consciousness is no longer filled with associations, mental commentary, and emotional reactions, time perception changes dramatically. Minutes can feel like hours or hours like minutes because awareness isn’t fragmented by internal noise. You begin to inhabit time from within rather than racing through moments to get somewhere else.

The stopping of internal dialogue isn’t a technique to master, it’s a recognition of what’s already naturally available. Children know this state instinctively before they learn to think about everything. You can access it right now by simply choosing not to think.

The rich silence is simultaneously empty of content yet full of potential, creating optimal conditions for conscious response rather than mechanical reaction. Everything meaningful emerges from this creative silence, this fertile emptiness that is the source and ground of all experience.

Section 4: Psychological Space and Living Time

Maurice Nicoll, a Scottish psychiatrist who studied with Carl Jung and later with George Gurdjieff and P.D. Ouspensky, developed a profound understanding of what he called “psychological space,” dimensions of consciousness that transcend our ordinary three-dimensional thinking. His insights reveal why emptiness feels so foreign to the ordinary mind.

In his masterwork “Living Time,” Nicoll explored how our usual sense of reality traps us in what he termed “narrow reality,” the illusion that we are solid objects moving through linear time in fixed space. Consciousness itself operates according to entirely different laws, more fluid and multidimensional than our ordinary categories can grasp.

Psychological development involves expanding from three-dimensional thinking into higher-dimensional awareness. In three dimensions, objects appear separate, solid, moving in predictable ways through sequential time. In psychological space, the boundaries between self and other, inner and outer, past and future become permeable and fluid.

Feel this difference in your body right now. When you think in three-dimensional terms, your sense of self feels solid, contained within the boundary of your skin. There’s subtle tension in maintaining this boundary, constant low-level effort to remain separate and defined.

When you touch psychological space, this boundary softens. Your sense of self becomes more like space itself, vast and open. There’s palpable relaxation as the effort to maintain separation dissolves.

This expansion happens through what is called “vertical thinking,” a complete reorientation of consciousness away from horisontal, linear thinking toward receptivity to higher influences. Instead of thoughts moving from A to B to C in sequence, understanding arrives all at once, complete and whole.

Imagine looking at a shadow on the wall. From one perspective, it appears to be a two-dimensional shape moving across a flat surface. Yet you know it’s actually the projection of a three-dimensional object. The shadow represents something real while being only a partial representation of a fuller reality.

Similarly, your personality, your history, your sense of being a separate person represents something real while being only the three-dimensional projection of your multidimensional nature. When you identify exclusively with the projection, you live in limitation. When you recognise your multidimensional nature, vast possibilities open.

Nicoll wrote extensively about “Living Time,” the dimension where your entire life exists simultaneously rather than being lost to passing moments. Past and future become accessible dimensions rather than vanished or imaginary territories. The crushing weight of temporal sequence lifts.

In Living Time, you begin to inhabit the eternal present that contains all moments. Your childhood exists now. Your future death exists now. Every conversation you’ve ever had, every place you’ve ever been, every person you’ve ever loved, all exist simultaneously in the vast landscape of consciousness.

You might experience this when you encounter someone from your past. Instead of seeing them through the lens of old grievances or familiar patterns, you meet them fresh in this moment. The history between you doesn’t vanish, but it becomes a living dimension accessible now rather than a dead weight from “back then.” What seemed fixed in linear time reveals itself as fluid in psychological space.

This requires what Gurdjieff called “self-remembering,” a state of consciousness where you simultaneously experience being the person and being the awareness that contains the person. You feel yourself as both the wave and the ocean, both the unique expression and the unlimited source.

In psychological space, distance becomes intimacy. Past and future collapse into an eternal now. The impossible becomes natural. This isn’t fantasy or mystical speculation; it’s the actual nature of consciousness when released from three-dimensional limitations.

You’ve touched this space before. In moments of deep love when the boundary between self and other disappears. In creative flow when time stops and inspiration moves through you. In presence so complete that observer and observed merge into seamless being.

From this expanded awareness, emptiness reveals itself as the presence of unlimited potential rather than the absence of content. The creative source from which all filling emerges. Your body feels this as spaciousness rather than lack, expansion rather than contraction.

But here’s what’s truly extraordinary: this spacious awareness you’re discovering isn’t something that comes and goes. It’s not a temporary state you achieve and then lose. What you’re recognising is something that has been constant your entire life, hidden in plain sight, never absent even for a moment.

Section 5: The Eternal Unchanging

There’s a profound mystery at the heart of emptiness that Gurdjieff called the “Eternal Unchanging.” This points to something that evolves and grows whilst maintaining its intrinsic structure, like a river that flows endlessly yet remains recognisably itself.

You can sense this principle operating in your own awareness right now. Throughout your entire life, your thoughts have changed completely. Your emotions have shifted countless times. Your body has replaced every cell multiple times. Your circumstances, relationships, and even your personality have transformed beyond recognition.

Yet something in you has remained absolutely constant. Not static, but unchanging in its essential nature. The awareness reading these words is the same awareness that was present when you were five years old, though everything else has changed. It’s like the space in a room that remains constant whether the room is empty or full, whether the furniture changes or stays the same.

This isn’t mere continuity of memory or personal identity. Memory changes, and identity shifts. This is something far more fundamental: the unchanging ground of being itself, the conscious space in which all change occurs.

Feel this right now by bringing to mind a vivid memory from childhood. Notice how the content of that memory belongs to the past, yet something is present now that was present then. The awareness itself hasn’t aged, hasn’t accumulated experience, hasn’t been modified by anything that’s happened to you. It’s as fresh and immediate now as it was decades ago.

This eternal unchanging isn’t empty in the sense of lacking. It’s empty in the sense of being uncontaminated by its contents. Like a mirror that reflects everything whilst being stained by nothing.

Yet here’s the paradox: this eternal unchanging is simultaneously the source of all change. Every thought, every feeling, every experience emerges from this creative emptiness.

You begin to sense yourself as both the eternal and the temporal, both the unchanging ground and the ever-changing expression. Your personality becomes meaningful and beautiful yet temporary, whilst you recognise yourself as what remains constant through every transformation.

This dissolves the usual anxiety about impermanence. Yes, everything changes, everything passes away. Yet what you truly are cannot be touched by any of it. The loss of relationships, possessions, even your own body, becomes workable because you know yourself as what remains when everything else has gone.

The eternal unchanging isn’t something you achieve or develop. It’s what you discover when you stop trying to become anything at all. It’s your original face before you learned to wear masks, your natural state before you accumulated identities.

This recognition transforms your relationship to time itself. Instead of being trapped in the relentless flow from past to future, you begin to inhabit the eternal present that contains all moments. Not the narrow slice of “now” but the vast, timeless awareness in which past, present, and future all appear.

From this ground, life becomes both utterly meaningful and completely free. Meaningful because consciousness is exploring its own infinite nature through you. Free because nothing that happens can touch what you actually are.

Section 6: Living from Space

When you know yourself as spacious awareness rather than solid identity, everything in daily life becomes workable. Difficult emotions still arise, yet they’re like weather systems moving through infinite sky. You feel them fully without being overwhelmed because you are what they move through, the vast space they appear within.

Relationships transform completely. Instead of defending positions or protecting self-image, authentic response emerges naturally from the stillness of knowing. People sense something different about your presence, something spacious and unhurried. You’re somehow there for them in a way that feels accepting, patient, genuinely available.

When your partner is upset, you can remain present with their pain without being swept into reactivity. When your children are demanding, you respond from patience rather than irritation. When colleagues are critical, you hear the information without the defensive armour that usually springs into place.

This creates what feels like magic in relationships. Others unconsciously relax in your presence because you’re no longer broadcasting the subtle tension of someone defending territory. Conversations deepen because you’re listening from emptiness rather than preparing responses.

Work becomes a form of play, consciousness exploring its creativity through your particular skills and interests. Success and failure become equally interesting movements in awareness rather than threats to identity. Projects flow more smoothly because you’re responding to what’s actually needed rather than what your ego thinks should happen.

The ego’s tendency to create expectations becomes particularly clear in how we relate to people, situations, and circumstances. We impose our mental projections onto reality, expecting things to be other than what they are. When an apple tree grows apples, we might feel disappointed because we somehow expected oranges. The tree isn’t the problem – our expectation is. People show us who they are through their actions, yet we often hold them to the standard of who we think they should be. Situations unfold according to their own nature, but we measure them against our preferred outcomes. This constant mismatch between expectation and reality becomes a source of chronic disappointment. Life isn’t failing us, we’re asking reality to be something it isn’t.

When we release these projections and meet what is with open awareness, disappointment dissolves. We begin to work with the actual materials of our experience rather than our fantasies about how things should be. This shift allows for a much more fluid and responsive way of moving through life.

Decisions become remarkably simple. Instead of the complex calculations of ego trying to protect and enhance itself, choices arise from the stillness of knowing. You move in directions that serve the whole rather than just the part, guided by wisdom that encompasses broader contexts than personal concern.

Here’s the beautiful paradox: when you discover you are nobody in particular, you become available to be anybody that’s needed. The personal self, with all its fixed preferences and defended positions, was actually quite limited. It could only respond from its narrow range of experiences and beliefs.

Gurdjieff pointed to this when he said that the highest attainment is to be able to do, not merely doing things, but having the freedom to respond without the constraints of a fixed identity. This capacity emerges naturally when consciousness is no longer imprisoned by the story of being a particular type of person.

Consciousness itself has access to the full spectrum of human response. When you’re no longer locked into being a particular type of person, you can respond authentically to whatever the moment requires. Fierce when fierceness serves, gentle when gentleness heals, silent when silence is needed, engaged when engagement is appropriate.

This flexibility flows from natural responsiveness rather than performance or strategy. It’s the way awareness moves when freed from the rigid patterns of mechanical reaction. Like water flowing around rocks, responses emerge that fit the actual contours of each situation.

All the effort you once spent trying to be somebody was actually covering up the natural radiance of what you are. When consciousness is no longer filtered through defensive structures, its expression becomes pure, immediate, authentic.

Your quirks remain, your particular way of seeing persists, yet they’re no longer rigid defences against life. They become the unique flavour consciousness takes when expressing through your specific form, like light refracting through a particular crystal.

Time changes too. Instead of racing through moments to get somewhere else, you inhabit time from within. Each moment becomes sufficient, complete, sacred because it’s consciousness knowing itself in yet another unique way.

The search ends because you recognise you are what you were seeking. The one who was searching was just temporary content in the consciousness that is your true nature.

Conclusion

You have always been what you are seeking.

The space these words are appearing in right now, that’s what you are. The words themselves, the understanding of the words, the one who seems to be reading them, all of this is temporary content. What you actually are is the aware openness in which all of this arises.

That space has no center and no edges. It’s located nowhere yet more intimate than your breath. It has no qualities yet it’s the most vivid presence you’ve ever known. This isn’t philosophical position or spiritual belief. It’s the most obvious fact about your existence, temporarily forgotten and now remembered.

From this recognition, the search ends and life begins. Life as consciousness exploring its own infinite nature through the temporary costume of individuality. You haven’t become something new, you’ve recognised what was never absent.

We’ve completed our first movement into Expansion. The boundaries of the personal self have begun their gentle dissolution, revealing the spacious awareness that was always your true nature. Where Integration focused on purifying and stabilising the functions of consciousness, Expansion explores what happens when those functions dissolve into their source.

Shadow work, attention training, intention setting, witnessing, and stillness were all preparations for this recognition. Each one dissolved another layer of identification until only the space itself remained. Now you know yourself as what all those functions appear within.

In our next episode, we’ll explore “I Am Held – Living Between the Poles.” If emptiness reveals what you are, being held shows how this recognition allows you to dance with life’s apparent opposites without being torn apart by them. You’ll discover how the space that contains everything can hold all polarities, all contradictions, all of life’s seeming conflicts in perfect balance.

Until then, rest in what has opened today. You are the space in which all experiences arise and dissolve. That space is vast, intimate, creative, and absolutely safe. Nothing has ever actually threatened it. Nothing ever could.

When difficult emotions arise this week, remember you are the sky these passing clouds move through. When challenging situations appear, recognise you are the awareness they appear within. When thoughts proliferate, know you are the silence from which they emerge and to which they return.

Here’s your practice:
When you feel tension, pause.
Let go of the thought.
What remains?
Notice how your breath continues, how the world keeps turning, how presence holds everything, without anyone needing to hold it.

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Thank you for this exploration into what you are beneath every idea of what you are. This isn’t a journey toward somewhere else, it’s the return to the heart of what was never absent.

I’m Gary Eggleton, and this is Martfotai.

Emptiness isn’t absence. It’s where everything real begins. You’ve always been the silence beneath the noise. Welcome home.