Henosis Foundation.

In Location 3 subjective experience tends to default to Layer 3, although Layers 1 and 2 are usually quite accessible as well, often blended with Layer 3 or experienced from Layer 3. Like Location 2, Location 3 has a broad range of access to the layers, allowing Finders to experience a great degree of depth in Fundamental Wellbeing while remaining relatively effective in the world. 

Layer 1

Layer 1 can usually be easily accessed in Location 3 but is by no means the default anymore. It will often be experienced from perception being centered in deeper layers. Therefore, mental activity feels more distant, impersonal, and spontaneous. By this point self-referential thoughts have declined significantly, and thoughts that remain are largely present moment oriented. Memories also tend to arise less because there is an increased focus of attention on the present, and because the past is no longer valued as defining the sense of self.

Because of the profound experience of love, joy, and compassion in Location 3, the mind tends to be biased by the very positive affective state. The universal or divine love/joy/compassion tends to increasingly drown out personal emotion, including personal forms of love, until only one positive meta-emotion of love, joy, and compassion remains. Strong psychological triggers such as the death of a loved one can still cause a reaction in the system, but for the most part, there is persistent equanimity and joy. 

Layer 2

In Location 3, Layer 2 shows up as the presence of divinity, or as the panpsychist presence. This is almost always mixed with Layer 3 in Location 3, which gives it the all-pervading and revealing qualities. The quality of spaciousness (emptiness, expansiveness, openness, and so on) feels as though it pervades everything as the presence of divinity, or as the panpsychist presence, depending on how Location 3 is showing up for that person. There is still a sense of self, but it feels formless, impersonal, and in union with the all-pervading presence. The sense of union with divinity or the panpsychist sense makes Layer 2 in Location 3 feel less detached and alone than it can in Locations 2 and 4. 

Layer 3

Layer 3 is the default layer of Location 3 and is experienced as the divine or panpsychist presence, or as divine love itself, in and as everything. 

Deep into Layer 3, it will feel as though the divine or panpsychist presence is the substance of everything, but initially it feels more like an essence or presence infusing everything. It feels as though it pervades everything but is simultaneously independent of everything. It feels untouched and untouchable. This quality of presence or being feels more fundamental and real than anything else.  There is a sense of being in union with this all-pervading field or presence that is without limits, flowing through and as everything.  This sense of union underpins the subtle duality of Location 3, and deepening into Location 3 feels like deepening into an increasingly complete union with the divine/panpsychist presence, in which any sense of individual self progressively dissolves.

As is the case in other locations, there is a deep quality of stillness at Layer 3. It is more still than any preceding layer, and the stillness or silence feels like it pervades and encompasses everything—all objects and all experience. Simultaneously, it feels as though it transcends everything, or is somehow more foundational, real, or permanent than everything else. 

The stillness is simultaneously infused with a profound quality of fullness, especially in Location 3. The all-encompassing feeling of love, joy, and compassion pervades all experience, and there is a deep sense of perfection, beauty, and even sacredness to everything. 

Layer 3 is sometimes experienced as the foundation or source of manifest existence, which is typically integrated with conceptions of divinity in the case of people who experience the divine version of Location 3. Because it is undifferentiated and formless, the only way the symbolic mind can conceive of it is as unmanifest, pure potentiality. Subjectively this may feel like a field of infinite potentiality because it is formless and unmanifest, yet it feels profoundly full and like the source underlying all differentiated existence. It feels like it is everywhere—there is nowhere it is not—yet it is not localized anywhere and it does not have spatial dimensionality. There is still a subtle duality or separation perceived between form and formless, manifest and unmanifest, which increasingly fades at greater depths of the experience. 

Some people will experience Layer 3 as light, using descriptions such as “the clear light of being (or consciousness, or awareness, or divinity).” When this is the case, one way it is perceived is as an all-pervading, unmoving, luminous field that is both the source of experience and which experiences everything. 

The field-like presence of Layer 3 feels powerful and penetrating, and being deep in Layer 3 can seem to have a noticeable influence on other people. Especially in Location 3, Finders sometimes develop the perception/belief that their state of being is somehow of benefit to humanity or life as a whole. They can feel as though the divine or some beneficial type of blessing is radiating out from them.

Layer 4

Layer 4 is not easily accessible in Location 3. It is essentially the home layer of Location 4 and later, and experiences of it in earlier locations tend to be partial and temporary. When it is accessed, it is usually mixed with other layers, most typically the deepest portions of Layer 3. Because one is generally unable to fully deepen into it, it tends to be experienced as a mystery or unknowable. An exception to this appears to be fluid, late location Finders who find their way back to Location 3 after having more fully deepened into Layer 4 in later locations. 

Layer 4 will initially be sensed as an even deeper stillness or silence than that of Layer 3. This deepest stillness brings with it a loss of dimensionality and seems flat or stark when compared to the richness of Layer 3. The silence or stillness feels absolute and infinite.

In contrast to Layer 2, there is no sense of a container. The unfolding does not happen in anything; rather, it is total and complete in itself. Similarly, there is no longer any sense of an essence pervading everything like in Layer 3. There is nothing arising from or within it. It has no content and no distinctions—there is only divinity/existence itself, which is complete and total as this moment. 

In earlier locations, it is common for Layer 4 to be experienced as an unknowable or a mystery. This is partly because one is unable to deepen into it and stabilize in it, and partly because it cannot be known objectively—or even subjectively in the usual sense. This experience is typically not persistent in Location 3 and usually does not allow someone to be functional while it lasts. When it is only touched upon temporarily, it does not necessarily feel as though it is not a state, as it does when it is experienced deeply and persistently, because the sense of individual self remains partially intact in earlier locations. Layer 4 is then experienced in the context of there being a self-existent experiencer that entered and left the experience.

If someone has the divine version of experience in Location 3, Layer 4 is experienced as the ultimate mystery of the divine, often called the Godhead. It is like the absolute unknowable depth of divinity. It feels like one’s self disappears into this unknowable depth and there is only That, beyond all distinction and comprehension. Note that like the experiences of Layer 4 in other locations, this also entails the loss of individual self, but in the context of its total dissolution in divinity. This state is difficult to stabilize and will usually either fall back into Layer 3, or pull someone’s system into Location 4, where subjective experience naturally centers in Layer 4.