ON-LINE Wed, June 3: "Witnessing and Participating in Experience"

(Bob Cergol quote in Feb 2026 TAT Forum)

The May TAT Forum featured Bob Cergol's Epilogue following a presentation at the April 2026 TAT meeting.
He stated:

"The “you” that you have become in the world is a reflection seen, or projected if you like, in the fire-hose of experiences. Experience can be thought of as a mirror. You only know the world through your senses, and you come to see your existence in that world as reflected to you in the mind. Experience can be thought of as a mirror. You only know the world through your senses, and you come to see your existence in that world as reflected to you in the mind."

What is the difference between witnessing and participating in experience?

To what degree do I identify experiences as being "mine"?
To what degree do I identify with just witnessing?

In the Instagram above, does one statement define sleep and another wakefulness?

Furthermore, he states:
"So, you are watching experience happen to you as conveyed to you through the five physical senses. But you are simultaneously also watching a stream of experience that has nothing to do with those physical senses. Internal experience stems from your reactions to external physical experiences. Anger is an internal experience. There is nothing in the physical world that stimulates any of the five senses to register anger in the body. It is your internal reaction to certain physical experiences that registers in the mind as anger."

He defines internal and external. Do you agree? Where is your boundary between the two?