This is probably the closest qualified teacher on earth who can explain this «Void» stuff...

So here's the simple truth:

99% of people who want to learn how to "get back" to the void want it because they hate the world they live in.

But:

They hate this world only because they haven't accepted yet that the world is not meant to be turiya.

Turiya is what I call the "mental realm". Why mental? Because it's the source of the mind, where the mind is being created by creating an "objective" relationship between subjects and objects. Being aware of this divide is what he means when he says "turn awareness in on itself". It's not just the act of watching. It's the act of being aware of how the divide is created.

But why does this divide happen at all? Why not just stay in the state of pure awareness?

The simple answer: Because God had an idea of not being omnipotent anymore. The idea to create an ego, which is a perspective from within the world, instead of being the world.

See, when you are dreaming, you are actually in turiya, but you are not aware of being there because you still apply your ego to your awareness. You hold on to the idea of the divide, which results in the idea of "a god" inside the world, capable of altering everything, forming the world with ideas directly.

People who hate the awake world just mourn the fact that they are not "god" anymore.

But why is it a fact? Well, because creating the ego eventually resulted in the creation of the subject-subject relationship. The question was: What if there is not just one god? What if there are many?

This is the invention of the shared reality. And the fact that it is a "shared" reality is very important, because it takes away your omnipotent power of forming reality to your liking. Imagine you dream of a world with beautiful rainbow colored trees. You made the trees because you like them. Then another ego enters your dream and starts to paint different trees. That's a shared reality in a nutshell. It means: You are not omnipotent anymore. Suddenly there are "gods", in plural.

Most people react to this shared state of existence with violence. They want to force their vision of how the world should be onto the other gods. But the problem is: All gods are equal, because all stem from the same source.

This is how war was inventend. And you can't win a war, because all gods are equal. So the next logical step was to try to enslave the other gods not by force, but with trickery. Become more powerful in thought – an idea that results in the concept of conviction as a force –, so you can dream your dream again and don't have to share it anymore.

This is essentially still the motivation up to this day. People want to go back to the void in order to become more powerful. They want to shape reality like they were able to before entering the universe. They don't want to share it with others. They don't want to "co-create" – they just want to create.

But that's not why the concept of the shared reality was invented. People who pursue the void state in order to escape shared reality or dominate over it totally miss the point.

[9:26] "Imagine you watch a movie. In that movie, imagine you are the character, right? When you are that character, the ups and downs of the character affects you deeply. It moves you deeply."

That's exactly the point of a shared reality. To be the character inside that world, moved by what's happening. It's like playing Skyrim because you want to slay dragons. You are not there to be in the void state. You are there to be in the Skyrim state.

So it's not at all about becoming the watcher "as if you are not the character".

[10:18] "The ups and downs of life no longer affect you as deeply. This is the state of pure freedom. Ironically, this is the state from which you can create something you want to experience."

This is true, but we need to understand what he means by "as deeply". Essentially, he is talking about losing hope. This level is too hard. I can't slay the dragon, the dragon slays me instead. In such a moment, you don't need the void state to solve the problem. You don't need to cheat, like turning the dragon into a harmless chicken with your thoughts. You can do that in a dream, and yes, it's funny. But cheating doesn't solve the problem.

So, remembering the void state has a different purpose: to remind you that there is hope. After all, you created that game. You remain free. So what does it actually mean when you are facing a problem that you seem to be unable to solve?

It means you have a coice: 1. Become better at solving the problem alone, 2. don't solve the problem and go a different way, or 3. don't solve the problem alone.

And this is where the shared reality becomes a game of its own: Maybe you can't slay the dragon alone? Maybe that's the point of the dragon at this place and time in the game? You are not meant to proceed alone.

This is what people mean when they call it "the ego death". It's not about you alone. That's part of the game of shared reality.

[10:55] "But he'd been stuck. He'd been stuck for a decade. But now he realized why he was stuck. Because his energy state was stuck to that old state of trying, of struggling, of trying to make it. He was holding on to something. He was trying to hold on to life when life is ever changing."

He was trying to hold on to slay the dragon his way. Alone, with the wrong sword, and not enough health potions.

So, awareness or "witness mode" is just reflecting whether you could be the one who is doing it wrong. Who is not adapting to reality. Who is sticking to an old script.

And that old script says: "I am the only god."