--- In [email protected], "Buck" <dhamiltony...@...> wrote: > > Yep, the blonde bombshell in the audience front row at the > Morningstar meeting? Incredible alpha. Trivedi pluck her > out of the whole group and walked out with her in particular > at the end of the meeting. Surely was scientific. Wow.
More seriously, Buck, although I have never met either of the people cited, this sounds a lot like "like recognizes like" to me. Attractive blonde who sits in the front row when visiting teachers hit town. People notice her and give her their attention. Even the guy up onstage notices her and gives her his attention. The guy who IMO is performing the same minor occult siddhi she is. In my experience there are two basic types of shakti. ( There are many more variants than two, of course, but for the purposes of this rap I'm talkin' high- level classifications here. ) There is the shakti of samadhi, which I would char- acterize as silent, intentless, and non-overwhelming. It doesn't attract or seek your attention; it has no need for your attention. It is just silence flowing. In my experience this form of shakti is transformative, and can have lasting benefits. Then there is the shakti of the occult. In the Rama trip we used to call it "pushing it out." I would characterize this form of shakti as non-silent, drip- ping with intent, and potentially overwhelming. "Pushing it out" is what women who walk into a room and instantly cause every head in the room to turn in their direction and every pair of eyes in the room lock onto them do. It's also what some teachers do onstage. IMO this form of shakti is not tranform- ative in any lasting sense and can actually be debilitating. Think about the word "attractive." What is it that the person "pushing it out" is trying to ATTRACT? Your attention. Your energy. As opposed to the person just sitting in samadhi and radiating that energy out silently with no intent behind it. That's a very different thing in my experience from merely pushing it out.
