To target or expose some state of affairs an instrument is needed as well as a theory with which to understand the observed indications. The more sensitive the instrument the deeper you can penetrate into the phenomenon. This applies to the study of physical phenomena and probably also to psychic, that is mental, phenomena, but does it also apply to the investigation of consciousness by consciousness, where phenomenon and instrument are identical? It is perhaps natural to think so, from which it follows that the cultivation of meditative practises is what ought to be pursued. This approach instrumentalises the mind and deflects attention onto methods and goal and other such objectivities. But it is only through the frustration and failure of methods and goals that you are brought back to the original situation, the situation at the very outset of any searching, which all along is the only situation that there is. There is a huge variety of possible mental states, some quite wonderful, many quite awful, but consciousness is precisely what remains unaffected in the midst of these.