Grasping what another's experience is · The Consciousness Path

Grasping what another's experience is

At the end of the community session, earlier,

and

briefly talked about grasping what another and another person's experience is. That sort of stuck with me and I contemplated on that question, trying to grasp what my girlfriend's experience is.

As I was working on this, many things came up, images of how it might be to live life as her, how it is for her to work, how she is caring about her sick mother and how being with me is for her point of view. I could notice all these images as concepts that I have and that they are not, what her experience is. I kept wondering and investigating about what that thing is, that I call her experience.

It also became clear, that grasping what her experience is is not becoming her as if looking through her eyes, because that would be my experience, then. Imagining all of that is just another concept, not her experience. I saw, that there still is something in my experience that I call "her experience" and as all of the other things (I just mentioned) dropped away, it suddenly became clear that it is just that, her experience, and I became conscious of what that is, as I dropped all those concepts.

Now writing about this I realize, how mind-boggling all of this is, especially when trying to put it into words. Like trying to unsee an optical illusion but within my actual experience.

Working through this self vs. other distinction feels very fruitful, though. Having had this realization and seeing through those workings of my mind at least for a brief moment, gives me confidence that this work actually leads somewhere. Thanks for that community session today!

Any thoughts? Is anyone else working on this?

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