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The discovery that awareness is the witness of all objective experience partially liberates it from the limitations of the body in and as which it seemed to be located, but it is not a full liberation. The discovery ‘I am awareness or consciousness itself’ is not what is referred to as enlightenment or awakening, although it is often mistaken as such in contemporary expressions of the non-dual understanding. At this stage of understanding, although awareness is no longer exclusively identified with the body-mind, it still seems to be located and limited. As such, it still seems to be temporary and finite, the two beliefs that give rise to the fear of death and the sense of lack around which the apparently separate self or finite mind revolves. To fully liberate awareness from all superimposed beliefs and feelings, a further investigation is required as to the essential nature of awareness itself.