The Experiencer
“Every experience has three possible ingredients: sense perceptions, thoughts or mental images, and emotions.” (p241)without the experiencer, there is no experience. The experiencer is spirit and indefinable but The Knower. The Knower resides in that peaceful, serene silence; the silence we experience that is not silence at all. There is a toning down of outside noise so we can hear the silence. We cannot force the ears to hear any more than we can force the Experiencer to experience.
That stillness within does not need to define its experience, it feels it and that feeling floods every cell with ancient knowing that can not be defined by simple language. It is ever coursing through the body, and without the body, never stopping, never resting, in wait for our recognition of it. It is the well in which great ancient wisdoms have been poured and we access that filling in those moments of awareness, as the Experiencer.
This Divine Source rises up to meet its commonality. That, I believe is the surge we feel within when we have what we call an “epiphany”. It is from this place that all we ever need or know is lapping. Betimes, when this Oneness spills over into every day life, it is not felt by just that person, but by all around it. It is like a magnetic energy that is drawn to the original source within all. We have all met magnetic people or have witnessed magnetic personalities who may only be magnetic for that moment. It tends to evolve from a magical, spiritual, a non-interpretable moment. It just is, and in that moment of Is-ness, timelessness and entity abide.
We may experience this timelessness and spaciousness in gaps between thought and action. It may come as inspiration, as creative spark, and almost a soul sigh. Have you ever felt your soul sigh? I have. I have. The more I became aware of those, the more I searched for those kinds of opportunities, but it seems to come at its own will not mine. There is neither strain nor work needed. Simply breathe it through and allow it its own time and deep richness. Eckhart speaks to the breathing as a way to connect to Oneness on p 245 - 248.
We have no claim of power on our role as Experiencer. Our experiences are unique as we are unique as individuals. But, at the core of the experience is Oneness and an ancient wisdom to be processed. Many of us wish not to have experienced, or to, now, or later, experience some experiences. I have to tell you, I am not sorry for anything I experienced. Every experience has the potential for great lessons, great sense of Oneness. We can only choose how we allow an experience to influence us. Do we allow it to go to the deepest center of our souls, or do we merely allow it the surface entry to Ego?
Just be. Be the Experiencer at deep and dear levels of soul. Let our senses seep down and into that core of Oneness and we will see that we have no way to explain it, but we just know we have been changed.
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