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To look objectively at our lives, at Creation,
and/or the true hazards within a creative endeavor and not project
the fears of the past one must learn to become a detached witness.
There are two terms used in the
Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity
technology that are closely related but carry important differences.
One is observer. The other is a detached witness. They are both
related to the awareness of mind and its ability to detach from what
one experiences and occurs. Both relate to observing much like you
would observe a movie. Becoming the observer, to detach and observe
what is happening, is one of the first steps one can take to step
out of mind or to step beyond mind. However the detached witness has
a significant deference from the observer.
The difference between the observer and the detached witness is the
perceived separation between the observer/detached witness and what
is observed. An observer is usually seen as standing apart and they
believe they are independent of what they observe. The observer is
not seen to cause or influence what they observe because of how they
observe. A witness is seen as not being separate but often integral
to what is being observed. That is, a witness is part of the process
and the witness carries an intimate knowledge of what is being
observed. A witness, as defined, is one who can attest to the truth
of what occurred. As such, a witness is often called upon to verify
legal actions such a signatures, exchange of marriage vows and the
like. They can attest to the fact that events really did happen as
reported. The witness is about seeing the truth. The observe just
observes and does not necessarily have the perspective of observing
truth. The detached witness stands apart from any filter we may have
about what is occurring.
The concept of the detached witness recognizes the fact that in the
creative process the observer and the observed are intimately
connected. Because the observer and the observed are connected the
detached witness knows it is influencing what is observed. It is
much like the phenomenon in physics where the observer affects what
is observed. It is to recognize the minimum the influence is caused
by simply the observer being present in observation and to realize
the more profound influence is caused by how they choose to observe.
The detached witness realizes this interconnection. But once they
chose their method of observation, that is, how they are influencing
the situation, they detach themselves from what is happening and
hold themselves seemingly apart to observe the flow and outcome yet
know they have created the outcome by how they chose to observe. The
detached witness recognizes their role and what their observation is
causing to happen. That is, they are aware of the truth of what is
in that their own observation is giving rise to what they see and
experience.
Both the detached witness and the observer is about becoming
detached and seeing the events that you are experiences more as a
movie and rather than the events happening to you. Where as the
observer just observes, the detached witness realizes they are
intimately involved in the movie they are watching. First they
realize they are watching life events like a movie much like
becoming an unnamed camera person observing from behind the camera
recording the movie rather than being the performer. But they know
what they record is not fixed. It can be changed.
As a detached witness you realize only you have the intimate details
as to why and how things have happened the way they have. The
detached witness realizes how the observer chooses to observe
determines what is observed such that they are the writer, director
and star performer because of how they are choosing to observe. As a
witness they are intimately knowledgeable with the details of what
is occurring but they realize that they in fact wrote the script,
directed it and are performing the part critiquing their own
performance, directing and writing. The detached witness knows they
can change the script to whatever they wish if they so choose to do
so. But they are also aware that if they change the script, they
then change the whole movie and they will have to go back and rework
earlier scenes and change how the story life of the movie is told.
That is, they go back and deal with the past issues in their life
that they believed created the movie, their life, as they now
witness and experience it. The detached witness realizes there is a
script for their life that they wrote and they are free to rewrite
it at any time if they are willing to do all the work to change it.
In becoming the detached witness, you will begin to see the events
themselves from a different perspective and you will begin to see
“stories” behind “stories,” or layers upon layers that each have a
story that can be told on that layer of reality. It is standing back
and witnessing and observing what is being experienced. The detached
witness is the initial step one needs to take to step out of mind
see the true nature of reality. The detached witness is to step out
of the thinking and judging mind and become witness. It is not
something that can really be just mentally understood - it
ultimately must be experienced. Most will have to practice at
becoming a detached witness.
The realization that needs to occur here is that this “who” who is
observing is the creator that has become the detached witness of
their own creation. An observer stands apart from what they observe
and does not affect or impact what they observe. A detached witness
realizes they are causing and/or creating what they experience but
they are capable of standing back and observing what they themselves
have created and are experiencing - they witness what they have
created. To become a detached witness as opposed to simply and
observer, we must become very aware of
the story
we tell about
our life and why we tell the story the way we do as opposed to
another.
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