There are layers to our human experience – perception, thought, emotion, sensation – and it is important to pay attention and understand what is happening at each of these levels, if only so we can move beyond them. They, in and of themselves, are not the fullest or deepest experience of existence. There is a deeper sense with which we can connect – “underneath” all these layers. There are different ways to access it and different things to call it, but our spiritual practices will lead us to the same place.