--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > I found [witnessing] incredibly liberating, a > > sense of having dropped all the baggage I had been > > lugging around, a huge feeling of relief, most > > definitely "something good." But the first time I had > > the experience, I didn't realize it was witnessing. > > That didn't even occur to me until it was well past. > > Same thing for me, Judy. My first witnessing experience > occurred before I even learned TM. I was about 18 and > knew something very different had happened for a few > hours. And during it I felt terrific in every way and > functioned really well. I had no name to give it, but will > never forget it. Without any spiritual construct I knew I > liked that experience. - and preferred it to my typical > state. It seemed a way to go through life that was so > very easy and effortless while still doing the usual stuff.
What word would you use to describe that experience? What term did you use before learning about witnessing? I ask because it relates to a previous conversation in which I elicited terms for being "with it" or "on." Barry had suggested "openness." And the term "presence" is gaining currency; I saw it in a New Yorker cartoon recently and thought that may be the default term people will start using for having one's center in the non-changing self, as opposed to being centered in one's thoughts and feelings. Thanks.
