Amr El-Nowehy:
Now, the struggle is: how we can identity with that True Self/Nothingness experientially.
For me, Douglas Harding's “
headless experiments” (use the not-so-intuitive menu at the right hand side) have been an absolute eye-opener in that it has shown me (1) that contrary to my belief my real Self pure emptiness, (2) that it has always been that way, and (3) that I have experiential access to this knowledge wherever I am and whatever I do (well, to be honest, I haven't been able to access it during formal meditation or in my sleep).
However simple and childish these experiments may seem, they are certainly very efficient. To realize who you really are is a matter of seconds or minutes, not hours, days or weeks — let alone years.
Now that I can always find myself (not that i always do, mind you!), I am also painfully aware that I have known this all the time, that there is nothing new to discover.
For many years … at least 20 (since my first A&P, I guess) … I have become more and more of a loner, I have shied away from people. This is because whenever I looked inside I found nothing but The Black Hole, The Abyss, I was nowhere to be found. And I found it so exceedingly painful that seemingly everyone except me was something and I was nothing, so I used to stay away from other people until I had a someone to show them, and in the latter years it has taken an increasing amount of energy to produce this someone. This is past now. Less than a couple of weeks ago the headless experiments showed me that, yes, I am nothing, a black hole, a bottomless pit, and endless void. But because of this I am also boundless capacity for the whole world. And what I'm doing now is to accept the Void rather than projecting a false somebody, it is making it so much easier for me to accept the company of other people (now, if I only had some headless friends…), although I still feel a bit like the mother in Pleasantville when she had gone technicolor and told her still balck and white son (freely paraphrased): »How can I go out now? What will other people say?«

'Nuff said. If you wish to see yourself as you are, if you wish to
experience — first hand, in real time — that you are nothing, and if you wish to be able to
see this at any time, well, then I can highly recommend
doing some of the headless experiments over at Richard Lang's site. Have fun, and don't let the utter simplicity put you off.
Cheers,
Klaus