In his contribution, Almaas is keen to distinguish the individual streams of consciousness from pure awareness. Since the existence of the former is presumably quite uncontroversial in present-day philosophy, I wish to concentrate on the latter, in particular on Almaas’ claim that pure awareness is non-individual and ultimately “the only subject of all experiences of all streams”. In my contribution, I wish to make plausible by a philosophical reflection on the puzzling nature of the I, that the ultimate subject of experience is indeed not the individual but “the pure ego of the universe” (W. T. Stace).