As a prelude to fully appreciating the value of such a radical reevaluation of all values, one is necessarily brought to see the need to comprehend the source of the authentication of all realities, feelings. Feelings authenticate reality. In what is perhaps a more straightforward approach, it may be understood that the "body," in its multiple manifestations or expressions, is that which is associated with mind to grant authority to all experience. Experience is only experienced as a bodily event or movement. Even thought takes on a feeling tonality when passing through the body. This felt association of body and mind takes place in breath. Breath may be seen as the link, or hyphen, of body-mind-world. Whatever is experienced must be experienced bodily, i.e., incarnately. The hyphenation I speak of here is the union of the otherwise distinctly perceived dimensions of body, mind, self, and world. Our hyphenation is used to point to the inseparability of these four living dimensions.

The living foundation of all of life is our experience of it. The knowledge that is derived from this foundation is always late, i.e., cognition is one step behind living. It is via knowledge or cognition that the living foundation is viewed piecemeal. Body, mind, self, and world are seen as preexisting entities that are not only distinct but separate in their function. While knowledge is a necessary component of human life, it relies upon the hyphenated reality wherein the four may be distinguished but never separated. As preexisting entities or functions, body, mind, self, and world (hereafter: BMSW) are taken by knowing entities that are already the case. They do not come into existence as reality but are taken to be already divided into observed phenomena that are distinct in themselves.

The union of BMSW is non-dualistic. Nothing lives that is not experienced in BMSW. However, this experience belongs to no one. This experience is anonymous. It is this anonymity which grants us the realization of the possibility of escape from the dissatisfaction of attachment and aversion. When that which is the stage upon which all knowing occurs is glimpsed, a worm hole to freedom is made available. In fact, to call it "experience" is to lead to the mistake of placing it in the realm of knowledge.