In everyday waking awareness you strongly project an objective world filled with real things and a ghostly mind that is present in it, that knows it via symbolic representations and somehow is able to interact with it. When this structure is examined more closely the boundary between the inner world and the outer world slides all the way out so that the inner world engulfs the outer world and at the same time the outer world engulfs the inner world. The result could be called the world of transcendental consciousness. But this world too loses its anchoring when subjected to further scrutiny. Consciousness in its most developed form now plays the role that the objective world first played. One way to describe this is to say that consciousness is inherently conceptual and symbolic but is blind to whatever it might be that enables it to be what it is; it is a functioning, a revealing, that cannot account for the source of its own functions or revealings. It poses a problem which cannot be solved in the terms with which it is posed. This is what is meant by its ungroundedness. Thought can bring you to the edge of thought, can show you the limit but can't traverse that limit, being completely ineffectual beyond it. There is no analogy that can be of any use, and yet this is what is, what you are, the very being of experiencing.