Dear Openhand, this is my first post here! Thanks for creating such a wonderful forum. :)

I've been studying consciousness growth for the past two years. I take my awakening/unfolding very seriously (in the most joyful sense of that word), and I practice being present in the moment every moment of the day. I can feel how I keep growing, and it is the most outstanding experience of my entire life.

Lately I feel that I am no longer only seeing through my eyes, but that I see with an entire field around me. In the beginning this seeing-field stopped a couple of inches from my body, then it moved out to six or so inches, and now it feels like at least a yard. In the beginning, it was directed forward (like my eyes are) and felt as though my body was etherically hugged from behind by something that also saw (observed). Now the radius is almost 360 degrees. I suspect (though I don't know, and this journey is full of delightful surprises) that eventually I will reach out into everything, and non-dually become one with it (which I am anyway, although our earthly man-enforced sense of duality has kept me from it).

This stuff is pretty hard to describe. ;) But I think that you of all people will understand it.

Charlotte