Robert Forman and others argued in The Problem of Pure Consciousness (1990) that contemplatives in many traditions report a state of being awake yet aware of nothing in particular. If such a state has no content, they reasoned, the concepts of a tradition cannot shape it. The idea recalls turīya in Vedānta and the cessation states of Buddhism.
Pure Consciousness Event
A state of wakeful awareness without any content, proposed as evidence against constructivism.