Witness and Awareness

Doing the brief practice in yesterday’s conference call, I enjoyed the feeling of allowing the body to breathe in its own time and space, without undue interference from the controlling self.  So I thought: this is a taste of awareness, without the self claiming ownership of it.  Then Jack, previewing this week’s reading, refered to the “witness” role of the self.  Whoa!!  Does that mean that everytime I feel a more open kind of awareness, the self is really still there validating the experience, claiming it on some level as its own creation.  Do we act like God (reviewing his six day Creation), and proclaim of our own inner experience: “This My experience, in which I am well pleased”.  Bummer! –Michael