Erfahrungen – Erleben – Erlebnisse

• That which you are is the witness, the observer and also the experiencer. This is happening automatically happening as a consequence of the field of consciousness. The realization that the ego will always take credit for spontaneous occurances is essential. David R. Hawkins, CD Series Discovery, CD 5: Advanced Practices for the Committed Mystic, 'The nine central elements of seriously committed inner spiritual work'

• In overview, we can see that from time immemorial, man has tried to make sense of the enormous complexity and frequent unpredictability of human behavior. A multitude of systems have been constructed to try to make sense of that which is incomprehensible comprehensible. To 'make sense' has ordinarily meant to be able to be definable in terms that are linear: logical and rational. But the process, and therefore the experience, of life itself is organic – that is to say, nonlinear by definition. This is the source of man's inescapable intellectual frustration. David R. Hawkins, Power vs. Force, S. 37

• What is the experiencer?
  The mind acts as a processor of data simultaneously from both within and without. It categorizes, sorts, prioritizes, contextualizes, and interprets simultaneously […] This complex integrated processing system amazingly operates within approximately 1/10,000th of a second, during which it simultaneously selects and processes thoughts, ideas and images that are invested with emotion and categorized estimates of importance. The mind is therefore like an infinitely complex processing unit of both internal and external data. David R. Hawkins, Discovery of the Presence of God, S. 109

• The experiencer screen is energized by desire and identification with it. This desire is like an appetite of curiosity, wantingness, and craving, and is an addiction to the experience of experiencing itself […] The basic essential core program of the primitive ego was to sample, explore, forage, seek and "get" […] its core identification and function remained essentially the same […]. The interface of the processor/experiencer is the core of separation and duality  […] The core of spiritual work is to undo this ancient programming. David R. Hawkins, Discovery of the Presence of God, S. 110-111

• The ego is focused on one point, the experiencer which is programmed to seek pleasure and survival through gain. […] the experiencer is programmed to "get". The experiencer’s function is to get pleasure and possess it. […] It has only one addiction, which is to subjective pleasure / gain […] The "what" that is desired is actually irrelevant. The relinquishment of this single, solitary goal unveils the Reality of the . David R. Hawkins, Discovery of the Presence of God, S. 119-120

• Experiencing is a phenomenon occurring in consciousness. Experiencing is a verb. Actually there is no experiencer, only experiencing. It creates the illusion that if there's experiencing then there's an experiencer – that's the basis of the illusion. David R. Hawkins, Spontaneous Satsang, Dr. Hawkins' birthday party, 7. June 2009

• Question: How do you transcend the experiencer?
  Answer: It's by meditation. [...] You don't transcend it psychologically [...] just experientially. David R. Hawkins, Spontaneous Satsang, Dr. Hawkins' birthday party, 7. June 2009

• We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience. Buddha

• Be convinced that you are separate from the senses and that their experience is not your experience. Pure Consciousness has never had an experience. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

• In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. J. Paul Getty

• Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience. Eric Butterworth

• Man is much more than a ‘rational being’ and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing na­tures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning. Woodrow Wilson, On Being Human

• The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein

• The first level of the seven is that which is most important to you. It is important to experience in the first plane rather than to abstract and intellectualize about the higher planes. Eventually you will have to experience them all. […] Your task is to teach of experience – to take that which is belief and faith and transform it into experience so that the learning is complete, because experience transcends belief. Teach them to experience. Remove their fear. Teach them to love and to help one another. […] This involves the free will of others. But to reach out with love, to reach out with compassion, to help others – this is what you must do on your plane. […]
  Eventually they will see that like a pyramid there is only one soul. And all experience is shared simultaneously. But this is not for now. […] all lives and all experiences are simultaneous. Brian L. Weiss, M.D, psychiatrist, reincarnation researcher, Only Love is Real. A Story of Soulmates Reunited, pg. 63, Warner Books, Reprint, March 1997

Gallup survey, USA, 2009: Income’s Differential Influence on Judgments of Life Versus Affective Well-Being
Below an annual income of 60.000 $ people are progressively unhappy – above 60.000 $ income per year feelings of happiness do not rise.

• Experiencing self: "Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money buys you misery. We can measure that very clearly."
  Remembering self: "The more money you have the more satisfied you are. That does not hold for emotions."
  Video presentation by Daniel Kahneman, psychologist, Nobel laureate in economics, on The riddle of experience vs. memory on the "experiencing self" (present) vs. the "remembering self" (past, score keeper, story teller), presented by TED2010 Talks, minute 18:08+, 20:07 minutes duration, filmed February 2010, posted March 2010

On the myth of – coming in as a blank slate

• The initial organization of the brain does not rely that much on experience. [...] Nature provides a first draft, which experience revises. ‚Built in’ does not mean unmalleable; it means organized in advance of experience. Gary Marcus, brain researcher, USA, 2004