What is watching when we meditate?

We like to identify with things: from possessions like my car, to people like my wife, to senses like my memories or what I can see, and especially what I like and what I think.

But it is simple to reflect on that fact that none of these is permanent. At some time in the past we have none of these. Ironically its the most temporary that we hod the closest. I was not thinking what I am think now last week else I would have written this blog then. This idea is new.

Things that are new have been created, and if I saw that they were created then I am not them as I was not created with them.

So we find we are sitting there watching our car being bought, going rusty and getting a new one, we watch our lives go past. We are not our lives then, but somehow spectators on them.

So what then are we? The reason for this blog is to tie this in with "psychic" experiences.

I have experienced people at a distance. I believe we are at some level aware of other people even when they are not in our senses. And this is more than just "thinking" of other people. It appears that there is another space in which we connect to people that is beyond what we see, hear, smell, taste, feel and think of them.

I speculate that this other realm is the same realm that what it is that can watch and reflect on my life. It is as though there is a "sky" to our lives that arcs over everything that is on the ground, and this sky is so vast that it extends to other people as well. We all live under one sky and one sun, we are all connected under this sky. This is no way stops our individual plots of land having their own sights and sounds but it means that when we withdraw away from all this and reflect upon it we are drawing back onto a world that connects us all and in which we can feel other people.

This blog arises from a question asked to me on reincarnation and the soul. Theoretically we can argue that there is no self. Yet in our lives we have a strong sense of other people that is non sensory and beyond just thinking of objects. Other people are connected to us very fundamentally and instinctively. Neuroscience says that we have "mirror neurons" that means we instinctively mirror the feelings of other people but this is sensory and thought. There is a deeper level than this which may be beyond the brain. To explore...