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 Got it. Here’s a BGT (Brief Gist Takeaway) distilled from that passage, followed by a Zen-style pointing story, since the text itself is already very non-dual.

BGT — Consciousness (Whirlpool View)

• The brain does not produce consciousness, just as a whirlpool does not produce water.
• Brain activity is what experience looks like from the outside, not its cause.
• Consciousness is primary; bodies and brains exist within it.
• The body is in consciousness, not consciousness in the body.
• Personal minds are like whirlpools in a larger stream.
• The stream itself is mind-at-large (collective consciousness).
• The physical world is the outside appearance of experiences in mind-at-large.
• There is no true “unconscious” — only obfuscated consciousness.
• Separation between people is due to limited perspective, not fundamental division.
• Reality is more parsimoniously explained as a shared dream than as dead matter.

One-line essence:

What you call matter is consciousness seen from the outside.

Zen Story — The Whirlpool and the Shout

A student said to the master,

“My thoughts arise from my brain.”

The master took him to a river.

A whirlpool spun violently near the bank.

“Where does the whirlpool get its water?” the master asked.

“From the river,” said the student.

The master suddenly shouted,

“HALT!”

The whirlpool did not stop.

The student smiled.

“See? The shout changed nothing.”

The master nodded.

“Exactly. The whirlpool was never in charge.”

He pointed to the river.

“When the river moves differently, the whirlpool changes.

When the river is still, the whirlpool vanishes.”

The student bowed.

“Then the mind is not in the brain?”

The master replied,

“The brain is how the mind looks when you are watching from shore.”

Silence flowed.

If you want, I can:

• Compress this into a single Zen aphorism
• Rewrite it as a dialogue koan
• Or map it explicitly to Bohm / Advaita / Kastrup side-by-side