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.\u00c2\u00a0 So I thought: this is a taste of awareness, without the self claiming ownership of it.\u00c2\u00a0 Then Jack, previewing this week’s reading, refered to the “witness” role of the self.\u00c2\u00a0 Whoa!!\u00c2\u00a0 Does\u00c2\u00a0that 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.\u00c2\u00a0 Do we act like\u00c2\u00a0God (reviewing his six day Creation), and\u00c2\u00a0proclaim\u00c2\u00a0of our own inner experience: “This My experience, in which I am well pleased”.\u00c2\u00a0 Bummer! –Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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.\u00c2\u00a0 So I thought: this is a taste of awareness, … Continue reading