2. THE EXPERIENCER
BEING and THE EXPERIENCER are two descriptions of the same ontological reality.
BEING describes existence as such. THE EXPERIENCER describes the same existence as experiencing. That which is, is simultaneously that which experiences that it is.
THE EXPERIENCER is therefore not something that arises in addition to BEING. It is BEING regarded from the inside — not a new entity, but the same ground state seen as active experience rather than passive existence.
Without THE EXPERIENCER there is no observation, no sensation, no understanding and no KNOWING. Everything that later appears as manifestation, qualia and experience presupposes THE EXPERIENCER — not as a cause from outside, but as the instance without which nothing can be experienced at all.
THE EXPERIENCER is not an identity, a being or a person. It is the nameless principle that makes experience possible — that which is always already present whenever anything is experienced, and which cannot itself be made into an object of experience.
When the theory subsequently refers to focus, observation, sensation and understanding, it is always THE EXPERIENCER that is the experiencing instance.
