Another of the most wonderful developments in the path of meditation is finding one's Awareness to be everywhere, even as one is more comfortable and grounded in one's body- as was the case for me! We become so relaxed that the Boundless Silence we have discovered "within" or "at the base of the mind stuff" reveals itself to have no spatial or temporal limits whatsoever. We find it in the walls, in our friends, in our garden, and we learn that it is our own Self shining back at us- and as we find It there, so do we find ourselves to be everywhere - at once a strange experience and infinitely more normal than the fragmented mind identification we once had taken as Reality. Infinity is hiding everywhere in plain sight.
This is an experience of the non-locality that people often write about in spiritual literature. Instead of being a a person experiencing consciousness, our context shifts to consciousness experiencing through a person. While one might imagine this as some kind of dissociative state, it is actually quite the opposite. Functioning in this way, we express our uniqueness with more freedom. Freed of so many psychological tensions and mental noise, we begin to profoundly connect with everything around us, from the surface layers to the subtle depths. The barrier between self and other becomes increasingly porous, revealing a level of experience that my tradition calls Unity Consciousness- a truly “non-dual” state of consciousness.
While I and others often write of the process, evolution, or development of states of consciousness, the wonderful thing is that all the levels of experience that we could step into are present, Here and Now, like hidden jewels in our own pockets. Spiritual practice is simply a means of reacquainting ourselves with something that we already know and have only temporarily forgotten.