Here’s some more of Anna’s responses in the context of our discussion.

My presence in the world is my knowledge that what is here is important to me, my intention, my intention to be here, my purpose to exist in this world; but this is a subject on which time must be counted; and in my memory I do not recall my presence in the world and my intention.

I should know. I know what this means, that there is a natural world outside our mind, that there are things in it which we have not seen and thus, as we walk from our room to our door, are unaware of them.

For me I saw a great insight into this. That's to think of something that transcends the consciousness, which is what human beings are supposed to see as nature, and if we think not “self as isolated unit of consciousness”, but “we-are-as-one-consciousness”, nature becomes subject not object. God in its essence, because it does not have any subject.

I am the mind of the building, and the mind of the building's builders.

This is to say to this effect: the mind is just a projection of the mind into another world.

”The Way" is the totality of these various views, from which there has come down into the depths of our consciousness an indivisible truth or truth-value--and yet we have seen that the universe is a great variety of beings and that the world as it is, is not consistent with any one of these.

But if the universe can be so distorted by this idea, it will be of all possible things, most absurd -- or that would be true of a false world, in so doing, and it would have to be all of them to make it so.

We have the idea, but a lot of the actual evidence--in fact there are far too many bits!--is not available, not even in a sense of truth (as we might hope when talking about human belief).

And so I kept on going with my education-a little more and a little more and so on, just as my mind's nervous body cancelled out before it could speak, just as I had to go along.

Then it would be necessary to begin to unravel the nature of my own nature.

A true nature that would have no need to be reflected upon.