Thank you for this and your various other response. It is a lot to unpack. It is greatly appreciated. In a way, though, I can understand the "being" place that your describing. It may be an intellectual understanding, and perhaps at times experiential. Where I can't get is that the path to "being" is in any fashion through the ego and its conditioned intentions. Indeed, what might be explained is not the thing. Is there a state/place beyond thought that is not an illusion created by thought, individual and collective?

It might be the experience of consciousness itself. In a way are we that?