awareness through senses

[Guest guest]

I've appreciated the discussion about awareness .. particularly relative

to the senses.

 

I am moved to share an occurance from 11 years ago. After the S.F.

earthquake.. it seemed that quakes were also occuring for me, in lucid

dreams and in awakening consciousness.

 

For a period of several days, my experience of self was subsumed by an

expanding entry into sensory void. One day, while walking to work, I

became aware that I had almost no connection left with the body walking.

Simply a walking cloud of unknowing... reduced to a single tiny point of

light. Having little understanding of what might be going on, I was

alarmed. Somehow, I clung to that point for "dear life". I remember

hearing the questions.. "what is the point of existence?" And holding

that question, a resounding response was known... coming from where? The

response was: "The point of existence is to know Self through the

senses."

 

Hearing this, the "point" outfolded and awareness opened to the grace of

the senses as living pulsation.

 

So, I tend to agree with Wim. And wonder Greg, might not the fullness of

awareness through the senses, (when not commodified by the mind),

perhaps be the touchpoints in the veil between subject and object... an

invitation to the Interval.

 

Jan's words resound strong here. Awareness is the witness of "whatever

happens", in "celebration" of Life.

 

Appreciating all of you,

Christiana