People often pull out the "hypnotize" hypothesis without much of an understanding of hypnosis. They don't do it to understand anything, but to simply deny what the other person experienced. I don't place you in this category, Akasha, but there are plenty of others. I doubt very much, from his description of these encounters with Rama, that Unc was "hypnotized."
akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> When someone experiences something that doesn't fit our concepts we
say, "well of course, you were hypnotized." And that of course
explains everything.
Who does that?
On the other hand when someone makes a very bold claim, most prudent
people reserve judgement as they inquire about simpler solutions to
the claim -- Ocham's Razor seeming to often hold true.
Your post and some of Unc's earlier ones today appear to imply that if
one does not accept a bold claim at face value, then they are
deficient, can't reach out beyond their existing concepts and are
stuck within a worldview inertia.
For example, regarding Lenz, given that:
- followers saw stars move, but clearly they did not
- not all followers saw the sidhis -- which is odd, its kind of
hard to miss something that dramatic if it was happening "out there"
- followers possible stared long periods at Lentz, or meditated
on him, prior to seeing sidhis
- Lentz is alleged to have given som students hallucegens
- Lentz was deceiptful in other realms
it seems prudent to not immediately swallow hook line and sinker a
bold claim made by some "stranger" before examining other other
explanations for the "perceptions".
Reseving judgement, in itself, has nothing to do with deficient
flexibility in conceptual matters. Indeed, guillibility, not lack of
conceptual flexibility, seems to be a strong trait inherent in many
TMO long-timers, to a higher degree than the general population, IMO.
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