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When we listen to sounds, we can distinguish between two phenomena:  “sounds” and “listener listening to sounds”: 

“Sounds” is when we are hearing all sounds indiscriminately, like a tape recorder does; when all sounds are impacting on our awareness with equal vividness. 

“Listener listening to sounds” is when we are focusing on one specific sound, and the other sounds are in the background of our awareness.  That “listener listening to sounds”– that focus, or sense of there being a detached perceiver there who is perceiving – is what magicians call lower self.   At least, that is what dies when the person’s body dies.  When there is no longer a sense of a separated perceiver perceiving, when everything is impacting upon our awareness with equal vividness, what is left is a feeling of oneness, a background of peacefulness, which is what magicians call higher self, or death.  Death is in the background all the time.  Death is the canvas upon which our lives are painted.

            When we feel that we are watching ourselves – that there is some part of us that is watching our every move – that part is our death.  It is constantly looking over our shoulder; it’s the sense we have that something out there is watching us (the Spirit is watching us too, not to mention lots of other beings, both angelic and demonic; but our root self-consciousness, the sense that we feel within ourselves that something is watching us, is our death). 

Observe that this is not the false watcher thought form, which we use to watch ourselves with glory, and exalt in how marvelous we are.  That watcher is a phony copy of the true watcher – death – which is utterly cold and dispassionate.  The false watcher – our self-consciousness, or need to keep referring everything back to ourselves – is a thought form which takes anything that is going on and glamorizes it, and imagines other people applauding us for it.  We learn the false watcher thought form from our society:  the false watcher thought form is in fact society’s way of papering over death.  We do have a true watcher watching us, and that watcher is our death.   The false watcher is society’s way of eradicating death from people’s awareness, to make people act as if they weren’t going to die, to make people forget about death as much as possible.  Only by making people forget about death can they be led into believing that there could be anything more important than the fact that they could die in the next instant.  And part of banishing awareness of death is substituting a glory thought form of watching (“watching oneself in glory; watching oneself with approval / approbation”) for the true watcher thought form, which is death. 

            Another way of saying this is:  the sense we have that we are perceiving; that there is some detached perceiver there perceiving; that there is some “us” there to which things are happening; is our death.  Without that sense of a detached perceiver there, we wouldn’t be able to focus on anything.  Everything that we see, hear, touch, etc. at every moment – not to mention bleed-throughs from other lifetimes and probable realities – would bombard our senses with equal impact.  We would be overwhelmed with information; indeed, we would have no sense that “we” exist at all (just as an infant doesn’t) – we would be pure perception.  This is a common experience when one is tripping on psychedelic drugs; for example, when we take a shower while tripping, we can feel (are aware of) every individual drop of water as it hits our skin as a discrete event.  On the other hand we can’t balance a checkbook while tripping because we can’t focus that much attention – there’s too much going on to be able to focus.  To use mind – to be able to focus on one thing at a time by separating it out from its background – is to create a perceiver which is perceiving; and that’s what we call death. 

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