| Ok. I have alluded to a future post, one in which I would | | | | something. And we are thinking about the fact that we |
| be offering my thoughts on the internal theatre that | | | | are being watched, and so because we are being |
| takes place within each of us. You know how we | | | | watched, we act differently than we might otherwise? |
| have these inner observations and there is someone | | | | If you are following me, then you may recall times |
| talking and someone listening, or someone doing | | | | when you were thinking about that fact that YOU |
| something and someone watching. (If you don't do this, | | | | were watching what you were doing so you acted |
| that could either be really great or really scary.) But | | | | differently. Are you your Conscience? Are you God? |
| assuming you do -- | | | | Are you the hall monitor for your ever-wandering |
| That someone is you, right? | | | | thoughts? |
| Right? I don't know, but it seems that I have always | | | | What happened? Did he change subjects? Yes... you |
| had these private observations. I have always had a | | | | caught me, I've change directions. But this is very |
| movie of sorts playing on the screen of my mind, and I | | | | important: God is not the only observer. God is all |
| am able to see it, modify it at will, and/or discuss what | | | | things, and by nature, in all things and he/she does not |
| it is happening on that screen with myself. It feels just | | | | wait in judgement to pounce on us when we mess up. |
| like being the director of a film. I love it! I have a vivid | | | | Many of us are coming to understand this. It is God |
| imagination anyway and I recently posted the transcript | | | | and God in us that compels us to right thought and |
| of a dialogue in which I was supposedly talking with | | | | action as we evolve in Love. Love is our teacher and |
| God. Was I? Am I crazy? My wife loves me the way I | | | | guide. God is love, and if we desire it, we are |
| am, so I am sworn to secrecy on that subject. :) | | | | continually expanding in that love. We are becoming |
| Before we dive in, I'd like to start with a definition of the | | | | like God in the way we observe, when we observe in |
| "observer effect." This is central to the perspective I | | | | love... assuming we want to. We are becoming like |
| am presenting as it relates to what goes on inside of | | | | God when we are consciously -- actively involved with |
| every living human being: | | | | our thoughts, words, and deeds. |
| Observer effect --From Wikipedia: | | | | For you conservatives that are hearing the other voice |
| In experimental research, the term observer effect | | | | in your head, don't listen. I am not speaking in |
| refers to changes that the act of observing will make | | | | contradiction to Scripture. Christ was in God and God |
| on the phenomenon being observed. It has application | | | | was fully in him, and he prayed the same for us. I'm |
| in many fields of scientific inquiry, and may refer | | | | pretty sure when he prayed about something, it got |
| specifically to:Observer effect (information technology), | | | | done. So, open your mind and accept the fact that you |
| the impact of observing a process while it is | | | | are responsible for every thought, word, and deed that |
| runningObserver effect (physics), the impact of | | | | you create. That makes you responsible for the world |
| observing a physical systemObserver effect | | | | you create for yourself and those close to you. God |
| (psychology), how people change their behavior when | | | | had the same responsibility when creating us. We are |
| aware of being watched | | | | created to operate in like manner, so the sooner we |
| Are you still with me? | | | | learn to deal with it the better. Think about it. God is ok |
| Ok. Let's consider an illustration and see if we can | | | | with us thinking about those kinds of things. It's the way |
| relate: If I am having a thought and there is a | | | | we are wired, so God has to relate. |
| visualization of what that thought is about, who is the | | | | My friends, we are now living in the embryonic |
| subject of that visualization and who is the one | | | | awareness that we are really supposed to think like |
| observing? Can it be that I am both? I mean, if I'm | | | | God. Not that we haven't, down through history, |
| watching me do something in my mind, and in my mind, | | | | thought like God. It's just that we are now observing it |
| I'm the one I am watching, how can it be that I am | | | | as it happens. The paradigms of time and space seem |
| both? Think about it. | | | | to operate in subtly different ways as we move closer |
| Here's something else to consider: You've, no doubt, | | | | to our collective awakening. Things move faster and |
| heard the famous phrase by Descartes, "I think, | | | | take place at a quicker pace than at any other point in |
| therefore I am." Well, I have come to believe that I am, | | | | recorded history. Technology is screaming at us to |
| therefore I think. We all think. I think, you think, we all | | | | see how connected we all are to God AND to each |
| think of world peace... or some children's song like that. | | | | other. We text, IM, e-mail, voice mail, surf, search, |
| You're thinking, but you are only observing your | | | | "Google" even -- all the while missing the fact that we |
| thoughts. You are not your thoughts. When you are | | | | are being RE-connected by the same technology that |
| doing something and consciously thinking about what | | | | many of us hide behind. |
| you are doing, you are only observing... you are not | | | | Beloved, lift up your head! Get out in front. Get your |
| your body which is doing the thing. | | | | eyes off the monitor and your ears out of the ipod |
| Does that make sense? | | | | and OBSERVE! |
| Yet another way to frame it might be to consider that | | | | The one I am looking for is the one doing the looking. |
| some of us picture God observing our every action in | | | | Think about it. |
| judgement. We sometimes feel watched as we do | | | | God, I love you! |