Francisco Varela

Der Kognitionswissenschaftler und radikale Konstruktivist Francesco Varela sagte:

Varela bestätigt folgende Ansätze, um hinter die "Erfahrung" zu steigen:

1. Psychologische Introspektion [Selbsterforschung nach Ramana Maharshi]
2. Phänomenologie [nach EdmundHusserl]
3. Kontemplation / Meditation

Nach mehrjähriger Forschung fasste Varela die vier Stationen der Umwandlung zusammen:

1. Der Neigung zu widerstehen, Situationen reaktiv zu beurteilen (Aussetzen / Suspension)
2. Redirektion [ Rekontextualisierung] = Abwendung von der Welt der Objekte – Hinwendung zu deren Ursprung
3. Den alten Rahmen loslassen
4. Das Neue emergieren lassen

• 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 has been constructed to try to make that
  which is incomprehensible comprehensible. To "make sense" has ordinarily meant 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.
  Dr. David R. Hawkins, Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, S. 53, Hay House, February 2002

• Like the notes of music which fade away as soon as they are sounded, the experiences of life are fleeting and ephemeral. Each moment is already in the process of ceasing at the very instant it arises. The focus of awareness is like a moving flashlight in the night which briefly illuminates each object and then quickly moves on. They appear and
  disappear. To the observer, life is therefore merely a procession of appearances and disappearances. There-
  fore, nothing can be said to be happening because of this constant sequencing of attention. Focus is therefore
  an arbitrary positionally and accounts for the so-called Dance of Shiva.
  Dr. David R. Hawkins, Eye of the I From Which Nothing is Hidden, S. 287, 2001

• 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.
  Dr. David R. Hawkins, Discovery of the Presence of God. Devotional Nonduality, S. 109, 2007

• 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.
  Dr. David R. Hawkins, Discovery of the Presence of God. Devotional Nonduality, S. 110-111, 2007

• 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 Self.
  Dr. David R. Hawkins, Discovery of the Presence of God. Devotional Nonduality, S. 119-120, 2007

• As with other attractions, it is the 'experiencer' aspect of the ego that leads to involvement with distractions and naive errors of judgment, mistaken decisions, or conclusions. The avoidance of diversions and attractions is not based on judgmentalism but instead on respecting the value of the validation of truth. There are numerous integrous teachers and teachings; thus, it is not necessary to seek for novel byways. The great traditional pathways have suffi-
  ced for thousands of years, and their essential truths have been confirmed by experience. They are now even more adequately understood and confirmable.
  Dr. David R. Hawkins, Discovery of the Presence of God. Devotional Nonduality, chapter 12, S. 203, 2007

• We eventually get to the level of the 'experiencing of experience'. We become the awareness of the joy and the thank-
  fulness for our existence and the existence of our consciousness. The body is then included within the field of cons-
  cousness itself. We come again to the surprising thought that the body is within the mind. Most people with a limited belief system think that the mind is somewhere 'up here' in their head. Actually, when it is being experienced, it is
  found to be everywhere.
  Dr. David R. Hawkins, Healing and Recovery, S. 137, 2009

• Mind is so powerful that the way it holds our experience literally determines our experience. Fearfulness creates a cer-
  tain view of the world and tends to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Recent university research, as well as our own research, shows that what one holds in mind tends to manifest within one's experience of the world. The world of our own experience then becomes the external representation of what we have been holding in mind, so our life is really
  a world of mirrors. What we are actually seeing and experiencing is a projection of our own level of consciousness.
  This is difficult to believe and fully grasp, but to give us a glimpse of it is a whole field of study in itself. The sage Ra-
  mana Maharshi taught that the world you see (perception) does not even exist and is illusory (the Buddha's "Maya").
  Dr. David R. Hawkins, Healing and Recovery, S. 288, 2009

• That which you are is the witness, the observer and also the experiencer. This is happening automatically hap-
  pening as a consequence of the field of consciousness. The realization that the ego will always take credit for spon-
  taneous occurances is essential. Dr. David R. Hawkins, CD Series Discovery, CD 5 Advanced Practices for the Committed Mystic, 'The nine central elements of seriously committed inner spiritual work', Nightingale-Conant, United Kingdom, May 2007

• Question: A very interesting statement you made is that "all experience is due to resistence." If one goes on a long stroll through the forest and experiences the wonder of nature, is that due to the ego's resistence to reality? Can you clarify this further?
  Answer: Well, the person is seeing the woods from a specific locality called I or myself. When that disappears the experiencing is not from a specific locality but more like a generality, as though you are the woods, not different than the woods So, it's a very high state to go into, a state of peace, and the witnessing begins to happen automatically of its own. And eventually, what happens is the sense that 'there is a personal I witnessing' disappears, and the phenomena are occurring spontaneously of their own without any reference to a specific observer.
  Question: So is all experience due to resistance?
  Answer: One can witness without experiencing.
  Question: But what's the resistance?
  Answer: [...] In ordinary life negative feelings are due to resistance, with the relinquishing of that in ordinary life you disappear it as an experiental phenomenon. […] For example, let's say there's a baby crying in the back of the bus,
  and it's annoying you. As long as you resist it, the baby's gonna keep annoying you. When you suddenly relent to it,
  it just melds in with the rest of the noise in the bus and doesn't bother you any more.
  Question: Okay. So you're talking about surrendering to it?
  Answer: Letting go resisting it, you know, it's most phenomenal use is, of course, letting go of negative things [...].
  Untitled audio interview with Dr. David R. Hawkins, presented by the suspended US American web radio station "Beyond the
  Ordinary", hosts Nancy Lorenz and Elena Young, 60 minutes duration, aired 14. September 2004

• 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. Dr. 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.
  Dr. David R. Hawkins, Spontaneous Satsang, Dr. Hawkins' birthday party, 7. June 2009