Having followed the cycle of experience through life, death, reorganisation and possible further manifestation, the most fundamental questions of all remain: what is it that never changes through these processes? What is it that makes experience possible at all? And what is the deepest reality from which all relations, perspectives and manifestations spring?

Throughout the theory, BEING, KNOWING and THE EXPERIENCER have functioned as implicit premises. They have been present as the background against which observation, differentiation, emergence and experience take place. But only now has the ground been laid to examine these concepts directly.

This section therefore moves beneath all manifestations and beneath all emergent structures. The focus is directed towards the ontological foundations that make the entire mechanism possible: BEING as inescapable existence, THE EXPERIENCER as the ultimate subject, THE SOUL as the local expression of this experiencing instance, and KNOWING as the total relational whole within which all experience is organised.

At the same time, the relationship between these concepts and the great religious, philosophical and mystical traditions is examined. Throughout history, human beings have attempted to describe that which lies behind the world of forms, objects and identities. The words have been many: God, Logos, Brahman, Tao, Akasha, Christ-consciousness, and countless others. The question is whether these designations point towards different realities, or towards different descriptions of the same underlying structure.

The points that follow therefore do not represent yet another level within the chain of emergence, but an attempt to describe that which makes the entire chain possible. Here attention shifts from the manifestations to the very ground that allows manifestation to take place.

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