Re: [Vo]:The Science of Intention

[Stephen A. Lawrence]

OrionWorks wrote:
Thanks for bringing Sai Baba back to my attention, Ed. How foolish of
me to have temporarily forgotten him.

Isn't it interesting that someone with his unique perception on
reality, combined with his ability to manipulate reality (seemingly
the fundamental laws of physics) as Sai does remains, for the most
part, an undiscovered resource of the potentiality of humanity.

I'm sorry, but I have to ask this... If he can work miracles, and if 
he's here to "fix up the mess" in any way shape or form, what's he 
actually doing to fix things up?

Turn it around:  Sai Baba is a miracle worker and yet his impact has 
apparently been so slight that people outside of India are nearly 
unaware of him.  Why is that?

The world abounds with problems which cry out for the touch of a miracle 
worker, from lack of clean water for humans to lack of usable habitat 
for polar bears.  Surely someone gifted with physical powers which allow 
him to manipulate reality at a fundamental level should be doing more 
with this capability than just using it as a sort of publicity stunt to 
get folks to come and listen to his sermons?

Philosophers ultimately wield great influence over events, it is true. 
But whatever power sent Sai Baba here must have intended him to be more 
than a philosopher, else why grant him such astonishing *physical* 
abilities?

So, what is he doing with his powers, aside from healing a relative 
handful of individuals?  (In a world of 7 billion, hands-on healing of 
individuals can never reach more than a relative handful, of course. 
Another bit of perspective:  Bill Gates, with his charitable work which 
includes large scale vaccination programs, has surely already reached 
more people and prevented more disease than any single hands-on healer 
could cure in a lifetime. Yet Gates is no miracle worker; surely someone 
who can bend reality to his will should be able to do better than Gates.)

Money could not be a problem for a miracle worker, of course -- it takes 
only the slightest ability to affect the laws of chance, or the teeniest 
ability to predict the future, to allow one to amass as much wealth as 
you could possibly need.  And it could be done subtly, as well; all the 
world over there are stock markets which shower riches on those with 
true prescience (or good judgment), and the phenomenon of getting rich 
playing the market is common enough that it would not raise cries of 
"Demon!" if someone with true second sight were to use it that way.



By your account there are at least 150 books that have been written on
Baba. And yet Baba remains primarily an unknown individual,
particularly within our objectively oriented western culture. It would
seem that collectively speaking we have made a tact pact to ignore the
significance of what Sai teaches us, perhaps because the majority of
us would for the moment prefer to remain transfixed within the
manufactured belief that reality manipulates us rather than the other
way around.

If history is any indication it would not surprise me if the accounts
of Sai Baba will be more widely known and better respected by the
inhabitants of this planet a thousand years from now.

Sooner or later, all children must grow up, some kicking and screaming
the whole way.

Thanks for all the Ashes, Baba.

Regards
Steven Vincent Johnson
www.OrionWorks.com
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