--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: <snip> > The only people really "into" miracles are those > who have never seen any. Show them one right in > front of their eyes and the first thing that most > of them do is find some way to "rationalize it > away," so that they "never saw it." > > That's exactly what Edg would do, and in fact did, > with the very story you presented. So would 99% > of the world's population. > > And the 1%? Even worse. People who have spent most > of their lives chasing miracles do not in my exper- > ence really want to find them. Much less the general > public. Finding something that indicates that the > world does not work the way you think it does is > not "uplifting," it's *threatening* to most of > the population.
But Barry, of course, belongs to neither the 99% nor the 1%. He's *exceptional*, you see. > IMO the only person in "spiritual literature" who > has written accurately about such phenomena is > (whatever one thinks of him) Carlos Castaneda. > He is the only one who nailed the *body reaction* > to witnessing something that "cannot be happening." > One's whole body goes into a kind of shock. Most > in my experience deal with that shock by managing > to forget that they ever had the experience, or > by rationalizing it away. Whereas Barry has dealt with such phenomena *correctly*, not by rationalizing them away, not by forgetting he ever experienced them, but by mentioning them--on this forum, at least--every chance he gets, to make sure we are all reminded as often as possible of how *exceptional* he is. :-) :-) :-) :-)
