Who is the Onlooker

You remember the blog entry The Onlooker? (Click to read)

It began:

There is something I am noticing more and more. It is like I experience two levels of thought. It’s like my Universal Self watches my individual self in all its goings-on. I don’t know what oversoul means, but the word occurs to me now. It seems that a calm very impartial part of myself watches all the shenanigans I go through. I’m attached, yet there is this impartial part of me that is not attached at all.

That blog entry elicited thirteen replies so far. I suspect this entry struck a chord in more than one of us.

Then recently, I was surprised to read over a Heavenletter that was written sometime in May. I can’t seem to locate this Heavenletter now. I believe it will be published soon, unless it already has been published. It is strange I can’t seem to be able to find this Heavenletter this morning. I did copy down a line from it, and I put the date it was written, but it seems I did not put the correct date. I am sure I didn’t dream this Heavenletter, and yet my not being able to find it this morning kinda takes away from the point I wanted to make! (Jochen, when you come across this Heavenletter, will you kindly tell us which one it is?)

Here is the short excerpt from it:

There is a watcher aspect of you that knows this, knows the mirage of activity, knows the stillness of Reality, knows that you are ever in Heaven, playacting on Earth.

That blog entry was written quite a bit after that Heavenletter was written. I had no conscious recollection of God’s words when I wrote that blog entry, yet His words must have been affecting me. It would seem I was subconsciously working on understanding what God was saying even when I had, all the while, no idea that my blog entry was based on something God has said in a Heavenletter.

God really is working on us – and for us — every single minute. What a wonderful thing.

I wonder what else God is doing for us that we are not aware of.

Well, God, work on me some more, will you?

Posted by Gloria on June 29th, 2008 under these topics
Heaven Letters, Godwriting Journal

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Reply from Pam (fortheloveofGodde) on June 29, 2008

Just recently, in the past couple of days, a friend and I had a discussion about staying in your higher self, even when you feel like reacting from ego. What I call, “fake it ’til you make it.” It’s the situations that make you count to 10, or, as I do now, repeat “I am as Godde created me” until I have control of myself. The funny thing is, there’s that “watcher” you talk about who actually helps me make the choice! The onlooker who, as you say, is the bridge between ego and spirit. Doesn’t really feel like the higher self–feels like the in-between that helps me to make the choice to stay calm when I really feel like blasting away at someone. To “act as if” I were the calm, loving person I want to be when I feel like being a world-class B****.

Seems to be what Jack does naturally. Me, I have to listen to that onlooker/watcher who reminds me that it’s my choice how to be.

Reply from Gloria on June 29, 2008

Maybe if I listen to your Onlooker, Jack’s natural one, mine, and plain God I won’t ever feel angry again. I am sure that anger (no matter how justified!) is pure ego through and through. Probably God has said that somewhere too.

Reply from One on June 29, 2008

From this morning’s Heavenletter…

say, “I AM.” I say, “I am right here.” I say, “I am always right here.” I say, “You have Me always, beloveds.”

Beloveds, you live in many worlds. It doesn’t matter where your body is, and it doesn’t matter where your mind is. I am totally absolutely right here with you. I am as near to you as your breath. We are so vital and vibrant to each other. We are the same breath. Who breathes your lungs in and out, you or I? Who can separate Us? Neither you nor I.

Anger is a defense mechanism of fear.

Reply from Jochen Lehner on June 29, 2008

Dear Gloria, I do not remember this passage and was unable to locate the HL, so it’s probably not published yet. But since I ran a search for “watcher”, let me at least add one of the more interesting finds:

“And so Truth dawns on you. You are an observer of it. It just comes over the horizon at the particular moment you are right there watching. You are a watcher.

Perhaps you are in a supermarket, and you look around, and something seems different from what it was a moment ago. Everything is the same except you are not the same. Your vision is changed. There is a dimensionlessness that you see. It is as though you have a glimpse of the fleetingness of time at the same moment you glimpse the glory of Eternity. Time stands still. You see timelessness. It is like you are staring, and you cannot stop staring. Your gaze is simple, and yet it is momentous. Your hand is still on the cart. You are in the supermarket, yet that which was always ordinary has become uncanny because you are aware that you occupy the universe and no place else. Suddenly, all that has been familiar to you all your life is the oddity. Suddenly the Unknown is known, or almost known, and you are at Home with it. You experience the Reality of Eternity, and it is the mundane that has become far-fetched. It is the mundane that is unbelievable. Somehow a curtain on the mundane has been pulled aside, and you see it idly as it is.

And yet, this ray of light is only a moment of experience. The movie that was stilled for a moment starts playing again, and you push your cart and you shop, and everything is the same except you are not the same. Once again, you have almost forgotten that which is memorable. Once again, you are caught up in a movie, and yet the movie did give you pause. For a moment, you were distracted from distraction and saw the silence of life in the midst of supermarket activity.”

(It Can Happen Anywhere,Heavenletter # 2288 Published on: March 1, 2007)

Reply from Gloria on June 29, 2008

Oh, Jochen! Where do you find such wonderful words — I mean, how do you find them and how rich they are. And thank you so much.

So, the HL I was looking for is not the first time God has discussed this very thing.

Seriously, how do you find them? Do you enter key words? What, for example?

Reply from Jochen Lehner on June 29, 2008

It may sound a bit cliché by now, but in many cases it does feel as if things are rather finding me, following an intent that may only become clear to me when something has turned up. In this case, I searched for “watcher”, using the blue searchbox because it allows a quick overview of the results.

Reply from Jack van Raders on June 29, 2008

Dear Pam and Gloria,
To Jack it comes Naturally???? Ho Ho! Drive with me sometimes and listen to my reaction at some stupid drivers. I smile shortly afterwards but Mieke always mentions “Stop, road rage”,not a comment that sits well with me. I am getting better though and older as well so not a lot of things get me riled anymore. I even shrug my shoulders now at politicians squabbling. No I am not there yet otherwise I would not be here anymore. Love you all Jack

Reply from Jochen Lehner on July 4, 2008

Dear Gloria, the Heavenletter™ you were looking for, on “Stillness”, came up today, July 4. It sure emphasizes the point you wanted to make on “this impartial part of me” and on God “working on us”. It all fits together now. “Conscious recollection” it seems, isn’t needed much. It all happens in stillness.

Reply from Gloria on July 4, 2008

Yes! This is the one. I wonder if I would have noticed if you hadn’t pointed it out! There is a better kind of memory than conscious recollection. God bless you, Jochen.

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