--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> , "Marek Reavis" <reavisma...@...> wrote: > > "I also acknowledge that I have an aspect of my mind that is an > unchanging witness of my personality. It is an artifact of > consciousness and a part of being human if you choose to spend enough > time to notice it. I'll even acknowledge that meditating helps you > notice this aspect of your mind more clearly." > > ** > > This quote (above), is what I'm interested in. The assertion that > the "unchanging witness" is an "aspect of the mind" and "an artifact > of consciousness", however, is still unsettled for me. I can > understand why you'd assert that, but I don't understand how you > could support the assertion.>>
In reference to your question, nothing can support this assertion. That was Maharishi's WHOLE POINT FROM DAY ONE ! Only experience of it yourself can convince you. No-one else can. Even though I am not in any high state of consciousness, I have had thousands upon thousands of experiences that are without question MORE REAL, MORE POWERFUL, and MORE INTERESTING than the regular thinking or mental activity of daily life (even though I love the latter aspects very much too.) And the experience is one of an unchanging pure and powerfaul basis to all of existence. Now, you have to remember, that science clearly shows that the mind generates its experience of existence by extrapolating and interpreting the soup of the universe based upon its own mental make up and perception, and then creating your worldview. All minds do this according to science (all animals and humans.) Therefore, all experience and all reality that you experience is based on your experience, and the most real and deepest experiecnes that you have are therefore, the most real and deepest experiences you have. That's it. Is anyone getting this yet. There is no there, there. There is only a cosmic soup of which you are one with, and there are devices called 'brains' that extrapolate and create from the soup that which they are most pre-desposed to create for themselves. Therefore, there is no-one who can tell you what absolute unchanging pure being is like...you have to experience yourself and develop your familiarity with it more and more over time. If you want to, that is. Of course, if you don't want to then there is no need to do so. OffWorld
