The Watcher is a universal phenomenon; if you get involved in any spiritual path worth the name, you're going to run into it, probably much more than once. Magical theory has it that the Watcher is actually a downward projection of your own higher self, meant to keep you from starting on the path of awakening until you're actually ready to do so -- and you prove that you're ready by facing the Watcher, in whatever form it appears to you, instead of running like a rabbit.