The Witness

As you are reading these words light is traveling into your eyes and projecting this image of words in your brain. Observe this. Your mind retains the memory of what these words mean, observe your mind recalling the memory of the words you are reading…as you are reading. Electrical and chemical impulses are running through fields of neurons in your brain as you are reading this. Just imagine the pathways of electrical charges moving between the places in your mind where you store the memory of what these words mean. Now observe the part of you that is observing how you are thinking. Observe the thoughts that are flowing through your mind right now as you are reading this. Observe that part of you that is observing.

Some part of you can observe your own mind. The brain is a biological machine that operates very similarly to a computer. Taking in data from the senses, storing and processing information. Your mind is the workings of the computer brain, with its programming from past experiences and adopted thinking, feeling and behavior patterns. You are that which observes what goes on in your mind. You are the witness of that which comes in through your senses. You are that which is conscious of being conscious. You are the consciousness.

As you reflect upon what I am sharing with you here what do you feel? Does it resonate as being true for you? Do you understand it clearly? How clearly do you understand what consciousness is? Observe that part of you that can discern how much you understand this, that is conscious of how conscious you are. The more conscious you become of how conscious you are the more your consciousness evolves and awakens. Close your eyes for a moment and observe that part of you observing your mind.

If you project an image of a Mickey Mouse upon the screen of your mind it appears similarly to that of the images you have seen before on TV or theater. Just as there is space between you and the screen of your TV see the projection of the Mouse on the screen of your mind. There is a subject and an object; the object is that which is being projected in your mind. The subject is that which is observing the projection. That which is conscious of what the mind is projecting is you. You are that consciousness. If you observe your mind and your life from the place of the witness, you will live your life more consciousness. You will find greater happiness and peace.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir