To extend the idea, some philosophers that lived at different moments explained that consciousness is independent of the body and feelings and thoughts and that

To extend the idea, some philosophers that lived at different moments explained that consciousness is independent of the body and feelings and thoughts and that to experience what we ultimately are we have to experience "consciousness without objects", for example Franklin Merrell-Wolff in his book "Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object" says this, but also indian and buddhist philosophy says something among those lines. I cannot say if what these guys said is true or if they were psychotics.