Hi All
I will be out of town for the weekend, and will not have internet access, so I am posting now. I would like to do the Exercise a bit more before posting, but here goes.
It has been a long time since I actually did Subject-Object reversal. I have been doing it formally over the past few days, as well as informally. Initially, I start out just getting a sense of the familiar feel of subject looking out to objects. There is definitely a solid sense of me when I do this. I can really note the definite sense of separation. Also there is a bit of a jerky quality to how I look — or know. When I make the shift to letting objects know “me” — that is tricky at first. It takes some effort to keep on with it. But eventually it sort of takes off. Some images with this is that of the light of objects touching my retinas, or vibrations of sound moving my eardrums. That is pretty gross level. Then imaginatively there is a sense of 360 degree surround sound/visual encounter–a sense of expansion into imagining the Whole of the Universe knowing me. That sort of leads to an image of “me” as a wave, rather than as an object or particle…and other objects are waves too interacting with my wave.
Internally, the exercise shifts to scrutinizing the subject who is being known. When I look, the subject turns into an object. It is as if the subject is always a stepped removed.
I also noticed on occassion the way I looked at my 11 year old son shifted a bit yesterday. He did not appear so “out there” and away from me. Interesting. I’d like to share more on this, and maybe I will have time tomorrow before I leave for a trip to Mt. Shasta.
Ron
