I have a question. Is the observer an aspect of the soul or a state of the mind? It feels to me that I can either be in one of three states of being - and I seem to go between all three...(1) totally identified with the body/mind (when I am caught in patterns of behavior etc - though there is an awareness that I am in reaction so perhaps not completely identified), (2) observing the thoughts/feelings/experiences of the body/mind or (3)in a place where the observer is sort of fused into the experience of the feeling/sensations.

Hello everyone, I am new to this Forum and hope I am not posting under the wrong topic :) The other day I stumbled upon a lecture about "transmission meditation" here in Lund, Sweden. http://transmissionmeditation.com/

So I have a question...

I am wondering what portion of many psychological illnesses are due to psychic attack by opposing consciousness entities?

My husband is medically diagnosed as schizoaffective. This is a combination of schizophrenia and bipolar disorders.

To me, it "feels" like he may have been "under attack" since he was a small child, even though the symptoms are becoming more severe with time.

Has anyone had experiences that could help shed any light on this?

Hi! I am curious about Openhand's approach with regard to boundaries. I have been operating under a belief that boundaries just enhance the idea of separation. However, this is being shown to me over and over again to be only partially true. It seems to me that though in an absolute sense there is no boundary, in a relative sense perhaps one needs to develop and discern a level of healthy boundaries - on a physical, emotional, mental, energetic level.

Over the last five years, I have learned how to create space between the thoughts and emotions and the responding words/actions so that I may maintain an inner peace and not be driven by my knee jerk reactions or by those knee jerk reactions of others - to be able to see the patterns and tune into what's going on beneath the surface. However, I find myself growing in the awareness that I have become all too good at choosing words and actions carefully so as to keep me out of conflict.

I am just writing an article for my german magazine that turned out to be relevat for openhand too - so here is a short version:

If we see the outer life as a mirror of consciousness, this holds true for the humanity as a whole as much as it does for each individual.