Post by Frater G on Mar 21, 2009 3:16:50 GMT -5
Psychology of The Observer
Amrit Sorli
Member of the Scientific & Medical Network
The Psychology of The Observer is an original way towards Consciousness - "the infinite sea of the inner light". It has no philosophical, theological or any other historical background; it is simply based on this present moment. The Psychology of The Observer has a Logical and a Meditative Level.
Logical Level
Human beings have a capacity for observing. Outside she/he observes nature, other people, animals, her/his body; inside feelings, thoughts. The observation includes the existence of the observer. The observer (watcher) is a consistent part of Eastern spiritual tradition and is evident in our daily life: in every moment of our life we can enter the observer and observe.
In the Logical Level we practice the observation of our thoughts and our emotions. The main self-healing method in the Logical Level is the following: we lay down, the eyes closed; we breathe in a certain rhythm that helps life energy run better through body. After ten or fifteen minutes we start feeling the pain in certain parts of the body. The pain means that the life energy can not pass; at the location of the pain we have an energetic block. Observing the pain the energetic block dissolves. We become aware of the mental and emotional filter that is the cause of the block. We do not go into analysis, we just observe. Observation itself has very strong healing power. It often happens that the energetic block contains the strong subpersonality. In this case we practice the following: the person sits first on place A which is the place of the observer. After observing for ten minutes he switches to place B, which is the place of the subpersonality. The person enters the subpersonality and expresses himself as it. After he turns back to place A and observes the subpersonality. The observation of the subpersonality means its integration.
After a certain period of practicing observation we are able to observe our personality in every moment of our life. When I become a perfect observer a question arises: can it be that I can also observe myself? After this question the observer starts searching beyond the thoughts and feelings. The observation turns into self-observation, the Logical Level turns into the Meditative Level.
Meditative Level
My hypothesis was that the observer has also the capacity for self-observation and self-cognition. After five years of inner observation (vipassana) the observer in me discovered Consciousness and recognized it as himself. My hypothesis was right: the observer is a consistent part of every human being and has the capacity for self-observation and self-cognition.
In the Meditative Level the observer becomes self-conscious. Let’s look at the meaning of the words "to be conscious" first. They have a similar meaning as the words "to be aware", "to know”, "to watch", "to observe". Let’s have an example in the following sentences: Are you conscious of your heart-beat? Are you aware of your heart-beat? Do you know your heart-beat? Can you watch your heart-beat? Can you observe your heart-beat? A human being is conscious of the outer, material world (for example the heart-beat) and the inner, psychic world. Can a human being also "be self-conscious"? What does it mean "to be self-conscious"? This has a similar meaning as "to be self-aware", "to know oneself", to watch oneself", "to observe oneself". In a human being the observer is a bridge from "to be conscious of something" to "to be self-conscious". Meditating - observing inside - the observer discovers "the infinite sea of the inner light" - Consciousness - and recognizes it as her or himself.
Consciousness is self-conscious. This is its unique quality. Consciousness is the origin of life and of the universe. The discovery of Consciousness is the biggest possible discovery in our life. It completely changes our understanding of ourselves and of life in general. After this discovery we know that Consciousness is an unstructured, pure universal energy in which the whole material universe floats. We also know that the whole material universe is made of this Consciousness, that matter is just structured inner light. The "cosmic sea of the inner light" is eternity in which the changes of the material universe are happening, always "here and now" in the present moment.
Indirect Experience, Direct Experience and Mental Health
Between our perception and our experience there is a mental filter that contains all our thoughts and emotions, our childhood, our education and the cultural environment in which we live. That’s why everyone lives in his own world, why everyone experiences reality differently. Our mental health is in relation to our mental filter. The thicker is the mental filter, the worse our mental health. Mental disease means that the mental filter is too thick. The information chain between perception and experience is broken. The person lives in his own world and acts in a way that is not acceptable for the people around him.
Information enters human being through senses, goes through the mental filter and finishes at the observer. The observer is experiencing.
reality(object)---->senses---->mental filter---->observer(subject)
Mental filter contains personality, individual unconscious, and collective unconscious. The stronger the observer is the thinner is the mental filter and the better is the information chain. The observer is the guarantee for mental health. Until we can observe the subpersonalities in us we can not go mad. Madness means that the observer is gone. The unconscious parts of the personality take over the body. The person is not aware what he is doing, he can not observe anymore his actions.
Practicing observation during the whole day for a few days is one of the best medicines for nervous people and people under deep stress. In one week of such a training the observer becomes much stronger and the most neurotic parts of the mental filter bubble up. We become aware of basic mental and emotional blocks that make us nervous.
The more the observer is aware of the mental filter the smaller is the gap between her/his perception and her/his experience. The process of becoming aware of the mental filter leads to the discovery of the inner light and is dissolving the gap between the observer (the subject) and the observed (the object). Enlightenment means that the gap does not exist anymore, that the experience is direct. Dissolving the gap brings a perfect stream of life-energy through the body. All energetic blocks are dissolved. The discovery of the observer gives us the possibility to see clearly the personal, mental and emotional filters and also the basic mental filters of our scientific understanding of the reality.
New understanding of the Time and the Space
The observer gives us a new understanding of time. The stream of change that we perceive in reality is constant and irreversible: change A transforms into change B, change B transforms into change C and so on. The constant stream of changes gives us the impression that time is passing: change A we experience as past, change B as present, change C as future. The past, the present and the future do not exist as physical reality, they exist only as a part of the mental filter between our perception and experience. Once we become aware that time is just a barrier between our perception and our experience, we jump automatically into the direct-meditative experience of reality and ourselves. We experience the steam of changes in the eternal "here and now" of eastern mystics. We become aware that with clocks we measure only speed, duration and numerical order of the stream of changes, which take place "here and now" in Consciousness. Let’s have an example: Our bodies are getting older every second. These life transformations give us the wrong impression that time is passing. Through our meditative experience we see our bodies getting older in this present moment.
According to the General Theory of Relativity, time is passing slower when a force of a gravitational field is increasing. That means only that the speed of changes (physical and biological) is slower in stronger gravitational field. Let’s have an example. At the ocean in Goa the gravitational field is stronger than on Mount Everest; in Goa the clocks are a bit slower than on Mount Everest. That means only that the speed of change is slower in Goa as on the top of Mount Everest, and time is not passing neither in Goa nor on Mount Everest.
An observer really can observe only the distances but not the space. He can observe only the inner space that is the part of the mind. Also "space-time” of Einstein Relativity exists only as mathematical model, means only as the part of the mind.
New understanding of the Infinite
Distance, Pressure, Temperature and Density
An observer can observe in reality only a finite distance. The distance between two material objects in the universe is always finite. The idea of "infinite distance" is a contradiction. An infinite distance plus 100 miles is still an infinite distance. The infinite distance does not mean a distance that can be expressed with some finite number of miles or years of light, exists only as an mathematical model. The same is with infinite pressure, temperature and density that exist according to the theory in the black holes behind the Schwarzschild radius. In reality we can observe only finite pressure, temperature and density. The word "infinite" describes something that can not be understood by the mind. My experience is that the nature of Consciousness is infinite and that the nature of matter is finite. Might be that in black holes finite matter disintegrates back into Consciousness and that in big bang the Consciousness get structured back into matter.
Consciousness - The Unified Field of the Universe
I experience Consciousness as Unified Field of the Universe. The whole universe is floating in the Consciousness and is made out of it. Consciousness is pure unstructured energy, matter is structured Consciousness. The entropy of Consciousness is zero, the entropy of the entire universe is also zero. The universe is an eternal phenomena. It has never started and will never be finished.
Considering Consciousness as a Unified Field of the Universe gives us a new understanding of evolution. The evolution on the planet Earth is only a part of the universal process: in the whole universe, matter is evolving towards the Consciousness. Because of different physical conditions the biochemical composition of organisms developed elsewhere in the universe may well differ from the biochemical composition of the organisms on Earth. But organisms with a certain degree of consciousness, converging towards the Consciousness, must have definitely evolved everywhere. In the Universe exist thousands of solar systems similar to ours. Conscious organisms have evolved all over the universe. On planets similar to our planet the chemical evolution has developed further to biological and spiritual evolution. The universe wants us to become more conscious. We do not have much choice.
Society as the Cosmic Phenomena
Geocentric approaches understand human society as phenomenon on the planet Earth. There is no relation between society and the universe. Considering evolution on the Earth as a part of the universal process means that human society is also a cosmic phenomenon. Society is a bridge from animals and to enlightened human beings. That’s why society should support spiritual growth of the individual in every possible way. Let’s see some important points in which science can support spiritual growth:
1. The Observer should be considered as a consistent part of the human being in all different sciences and in education.
2. Inside Observation - meditation - should become the part of every scientist research and part of educational programs on every university and college.
3. Discovery of the inner light - Consciousness - should be in the program of every post graduate study program.
With the development of high conscious individuals, the development of society will follow automatically. In general terms: more consciousness means less entropy, less distraction of nature, less police and army, less criminals, more love, beauty and health.
Meditation of the Heart
The Meditation of The Heart has been developed in the last seven years of my work. In this meditation we awake with the kind of Sufi breathing the current of bioenergy (QI, prana, orgon, morphogenetic field) through the body. Once the energy starts moving we go with our awareness into the heart and search for the inner light. For me the heart is the highest "Chakra" of the human being. In the heart is her/his strongest connection with the Consciousness.
The Meditation of The Heart that is also practiced in couples "woman-man". For couples the meditation is stronger, because the stream of bioenergy through their bodies is stronger. They are like two poles of the battery. The man is positive in the belly and negative in the heart, the woman is negative in the belly and positive in the heart. There is an analogy between meditation and the light bulb: stronger current in the light bulb - more light, stronger current of bioenergy through the body - better contact with the inner light.
The relation "woman - man" is a basic social relation which is mirrored in all others social relations. If we raise the quality of the relation "woman-man", the quality of the whole society is rising automatically. So it is very important that the woman and the man start to meditate together. Their harmony is a base for harmony of the whole society That's why the Psychology of the Observer is woman - man oriented. Mental health of women and men includes their friendship.
Amrit Sorli
Member of the Scientific & Medical Network
The Psychology of The Observer is an original way towards Consciousness - "the infinite sea of the inner light". It has no philosophical, theological or any other historical background; it is simply based on this present moment. The Psychology of The Observer has a Logical and a Meditative Level.
Logical Level
Human beings have a capacity for observing. Outside she/he observes nature, other people, animals, her/his body; inside feelings, thoughts. The observation includes the existence of the observer. The observer (watcher) is a consistent part of Eastern spiritual tradition and is evident in our daily life: in every moment of our life we can enter the observer and observe.
In the Logical Level we practice the observation of our thoughts and our emotions. The main self-healing method in the Logical Level is the following: we lay down, the eyes closed; we breathe in a certain rhythm that helps life energy run better through body. After ten or fifteen minutes we start feeling the pain in certain parts of the body. The pain means that the life energy can not pass; at the location of the pain we have an energetic block. Observing the pain the energetic block dissolves. We become aware of the mental and emotional filter that is the cause of the block. We do not go into analysis, we just observe. Observation itself has very strong healing power. It often happens that the energetic block contains the strong subpersonality. In this case we practice the following: the person sits first on place A which is the place of the observer. After observing for ten minutes he switches to place B, which is the place of the subpersonality. The person enters the subpersonality and expresses himself as it. After he turns back to place A and observes the subpersonality. The observation of the subpersonality means its integration.
After a certain period of practicing observation we are able to observe our personality in every moment of our life. When I become a perfect observer a question arises: can it be that I can also observe myself? After this question the observer starts searching beyond the thoughts and feelings. The observation turns into self-observation, the Logical Level turns into the Meditative Level.
Meditative Level
My hypothesis was that the observer has also the capacity for self-observation and self-cognition. After five years of inner observation (vipassana) the observer in me discovered Consciousness and recognized it as himself. My hypothesis was right: the observer is a consistent part of every human being and has the capacity for self-observation and self-cognition.
In the Meditative Level the observer becomes self-conscious. Let’s look at the meaning of the words "to be conscious" first. They have a similar meaning as the words "to be aware", "to know”, "to watch", "to observe". Let’s have an example in the following sentences: Are you conscious of your heart-beat? Are you aware of your heart-beat? Do you know your heart-beat? Can you watch your heart-beat? Can you observe your heart-beat? A human being is conscious of the outer, material world (for example the heart-beat) and the inner, psychic world. Can a human being also "be self-conscious"? What does it mean "to be self-conscious"? This has a similar meaning as "to be self-aware", "to know oneself", to watch oneself", "to observe oneself". In a human being the observer is a bridge from "to be conscious of something" to "to be self-conscious". Meditating - observing inside - the observer discovers "the infinite sea of the inner light" - Consciousness - and recognizes it as her or himself.
Consciousness is self-conscious. This is its unique quality. Consciousness is the origin of life and of the universe. The discovery of Consciousness is the biggest possible discovery in our life. It completely changes our understanding of ourselves and of life in general. After this discovery we know that Consciousness is an unstructured, pure universal energy in which the whole material universe floats. We also know that the whole material universe is made of this Consciousness, that matter is just structured inner light. The "cosmic sea of the inner light" is eternity in which the changes of the material universe are happening, always "here and now" in the present moment.
Indirect Experience, Direct Experience and Mental Health
Between our perception and our experience there is a mental filter that contains all our thoughts and emotions, our childhood, our education and the cultural environment in which we live. That’s why everyone lives in his own world, why everyone experiences reality differently. Our mental health is in relation to our mental filter. The thicker is the mental filter, the worse our mental health. Mental disease means that the mental filter is too thick. The information chain between perception and experience is broken. The person lives in his own world and acts in a way that is not acceptable for the people around him.
Information enters human being through senses, goes through the mental filter and finishes at the observer. The observer is experiencing.
reality(object)---->senses---->mental filter---->observer(subject)
Mental filter contains personality, individual unconscious, and collective unconscious. The stronger the observer is the thinner is the mental filter and the better is the information chain. The observer is the guarantee for mental health. Until we can observe the subpersonalities in us we can not go mad. Madness means that the observer is gone. The unconscious parts of the personality take over the body. The person is not aware what he is doing, he can not observe anymore his actions.
Practicing observation during the whole day for a few days is one of the best medicines for nervous people and people under deep stress. In one week of such a training the observer becomes much stronger and the most neurotic parts of the mental filter bubble up. We become aware of basic mental and emotional blocks that make us nervous.
The more the observer is aware of the mental filter the smaller is the gap between her/his perception and her/his experience. The process of becoming aware of the mental filter leads to the discovery of the inner light and is dissolving the gap between the observer (the subject) and the observed (the object). Enlightenment means that the gap does not exist anymore, that the experience is direct. Dissolving the gap brings a perfect stream of life-energy through the body. All energetic blocks are dissolved. The discovery of the observer gives us the possibility to see clearly the personal, mental and emotional filters and also the basic mental filters of our scientific understanding of the reality.
New understanding of the Time and the Space
The observer gives us a new understanding of time. The stream of change that we perceive in reality is constant and irreversible: change A transforms into change B, change B transforms into change C and so on. The constant stream of changes gives us the impression that time is passing: change A we experience as past, change B as present, change C as future. The past, the present and the future do not exist as physical reality, they exist only as a part of the mental filter between our perception and experience. Once we become aware that time is just a barrier between our perception and our experience, we jump automatically into the direct-meditative experience of reality and ourselves. We experience the steam of changes in the eternal "here and now" of eastern mystics. We become aware that with clocks we measure only speed, duration and numerical order of the stream of changes, which take place "here and now" in Consciousness. Let’s have an example: Our bodies are getting older every second. These life transformations give us the wrong impression that time is passing. Through our meditative experience we see our bodies getting older in this present moment.
According to the General Theory of Relativity, time is passing slower when a force of a gravitational field is increasing. That means only that the speed of changes (physical and biological) is slower in stronger gravitational field. Let’s have an example. At the ocean in Goa the gravitational field is stronger than on Mount Everest; in Goa the clocks are a bit slower than on Mount Everest. That means only that the speed of change is slower in Goa as on the top of Mount Everest, and time is not passing neither in Goa nor on Mount Everest.
An observer really can observe only the distances but not the space. He can observe only the inner space that is the part of the mind. Also "space-time” of Einstein Relativity exists only as mathematical model, means only as the part of the mind.
New understanding of the Infinite
Distance, Pressure, Temperature and Density
An observer can observe in reality only a finite distance. The distance between two material objects in the universe is always finite. The idea of "infinite distance" is a contradiction. An infinite distance plus 100 miles is still an infinite distance. The infinite distance does not mean a distance that can be expressed with some finite number of miles or years of light, exists only as an mathematical model. The same is with infinite pressure, temperature and density that exist according to the theory in the black holes behind the Schwarzschild radius. In reality we can observe only finite pressure, temperature and density. The word "infinite" describes something that can not be understood by the mind. My experience is that the nature of Consciousness is infinite and that the nature of matter is finite. Might be that in black holes finite matter disintegrates back into Consciousness and that in big bang the Consciousness get structured back into matter.
Consciousness - The Unified Field of the Universe
I experience Consciousness as Unified Field of the Universe. The whole universe is floating in the Consciousness and is made out of it. Consciousness is pure unstructured energy, matter is structured Consciousness. The entropy of Consciousness is zero, the entropy of the entire universe is also zero. The universe is an eternal phenomena. It has never started and will never be finished.
Considering Consciousness as a Unified Field of the Universe gives us a new understanding of evolution. The evolution on the planet Earth is only a part of the universal process: in the whole universe, matter is evolving towards the Consciousness. Because of different physical conditions the biochemical composition of organisms developed elsewhere in the universe may well differ from the biochemical composition of the organisms on Earth. But organisms with a certain degree of consciousness, converging towards the Consciousness, must have definitely evolved everywhere. In the Universe exist thousands of solar systems similar to ours. Conscious organisms have evolved all over the universe. On planets similar to our planet the chemical evolution has developed further to biological and spiritual evolution. The universe wants us to become more conscious. We do not have much choice.
Society as the Cosmic Phenomena
Geocentric approaches understand human society as phenomenon on the planet Earth. There is no relation between society and the universe. Considering evolution on the Earth as a part of the universal process means that human society is also a cosmic phenomenon. Society is a bridge from animals and to enlightened human beings. That’s why society should support spiritual growth of the individual in every possible way. Let’s see some important points in which science can support spiritual growth:
1. The Observer should be considered as a consistent part of the human being in all different sciences and in education.
2. Inside Observation - meditation - should become the part of every scientist research and part of educational programs on every university and college.
3. Discovery of the inner light - Consciousness - should be in the program of every post graduate study program.
With the development of high conscious individuals, the development of society will follow automatically. In general terms: more consciousness means less entropy, less distraction of nature, less police and army, less criminals, more love, beauty and health.
Meditation of the Heart
The Meditation of The Heart has been developed in the last seven years of my work. In this meditation we awake with the kind of Sufi breathing the current of bioenergy (QI, prana, orgon, morphogenetic field) through the body. Once the energy starts moving we go with our awareness into the heart and search for the inner light. For me the heart is the highest "Chakra" of the human being. In the heart is her/his strongest connection with the Consciousness.
The Meditation of The Heart that is also practiced in couples "woman-man". For couples the meditation is stronger, because the stream of bioenergy through their bodies is stronger. They are like two poles of the battery. The man is positive in the belly and negative in the heart, the woman is negative in the belly and positive in the heart. There is an analogy between meditation and the light bulb: stronger current in the light bulb - more light, stronger current of bioenergy through the body - better contact with the inner light.
The relation "woman - man" is a basic social relation which is mirrored in all others social relations. If we raise the quality of the relation "woman-man", the quality of the whole society is rising automatically. So it is very important that the woman and the man start to meditate together. Their harmony is a base for harmony of the whole society That's why the Psychology of the Observer is woman - man oriented. Mental health of women and men includes their friendship.
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