Aham Brahmasmi

A sense of wonder and an open mind and the universe becomes your arena. There is an intelligence and a depth that is so awe inspiring.

Like miraculous at the simplest level too. For instance, you're yet in the middle of an 'aha', and in comes something that'll take you a hundred steps further in the same sphere. And you start to see the intelligence and interconnectedness of things at newer and newer levels .

You kind of begin to understand what our wise sages said with one cryptic statement

अहं ब्रह्मास्मि - Aham Brahmāsmi

The mahavakya (the cryptic statement) originally came to us from Advaita, embedded in philosophy and mystery.....and maybe over time lost in religiosity.

And then you see the rational and scientific mind getting there, a step at a time, hypothesis, theory and evidence in tow.  It today talks a language that enables us to accept so much more of what might have earlier been metaphysics into the realm of physics.  

Your paradigm of thought shifts. Slowly the lines between 'Belief' and 'Knowledge' start to blur.

Bill Bryson in 'a short history of nearly everything' talks of how the macro and the micro are connected. How the universe scales at the macro level.... Solar system to Milky way to the Virgo supercluster to the Laniakea cluster of galaxies and so on, and how this has a parallel at the micro level within the smallest known particles. 

William James on how the mind body interconnectedness is such that the term 'psycho somatic'  now seem the norm rather than the exception..........there is no disorder, or even accident which is not caused or influenced by your thoughts, feelings or actions. 

Kirlean photography which captures the aura around people, and Pranic Healing which is an accepted alternative system of medication in some countries (Phillipines has a full five year medical course on it)

Peter Levine who talks of 'Somatic Experience' which is all about 'body wisdom' and how energy systems work within the body, and what it takes to release clogged energy. The Topography of Tears. talks the same language.

Collective consciousness, a term coined by Carl Jung now used to denote a layer of consciousness beyond that of the subconscious mind that actually connects the species

Scott Peck, in 'The Road Less Travelled', talks of how you can dip into the collective consciousness for solutions and how sometimes they will pop up on their own.

Deepak Chopra talks of tuning your own antennae to see it happen.

And we come full circle; the conscious-subconscious-collective conscious pretty literally, is 'Aham Brahmasmi'.