--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "lurkernomore20002000" > > <steve.sundur@> wrote: > > > > > > I saw this article earlier this week, and didn't get a chance > > > to comment on it. Recently Edg commented that had Fred Lenz > > > really been able to levitate that you would have gobs of people > > > and press, and even the govenrment all over it. > > > > > > And I said that sometimes the things you expect the press and > > > culture to jumb on, they don't. To me this is an example of > > > this. If this is true, is this not as remarkable a feat as > > > leviatation? I saw this story on a major media web site, on > > > the front page, Tuesday or Wednesday. Is this getting more > > > than a passing interest from the press, and culture. Doesn't > > > seem like it. And then, why not? > > > > 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. > > There is another group. People so jealous of > other people who *have* experienced such things > when they have not that they devote years of > their lives to stalking them and demonizing > them every chance they get. :-) :-) :-)
And then there are the people who are so attached to their experiences that those experiences come to *define* them in their own minds, such that when they're criticized about *anything*, they assume, quite stupidly, that it must be because the critics are "jealous" of them, and that this must be because the critics have never had any similar experiences. "After all," they reason, "if my critics had had such experiences, they'd brag about them all the time as a sign that the experiences make them superior to and much more Important than the rest of the human race, like I do." They also get very confused about *time*, believing that they're so Important that the few minutes or so a day their critics spend criticizing them constitutes their critics' primary occupation. Plus which, they think of themselves as being able to shape reality, erasing from existence hat their critics have said about them by not repeating it, not realizing the critics are entirely capable of doing so themselves: ----- > 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. :-) :-) :-) :-) ----- > > This group must constitute the "gap" between > the 1% and the 99%. Fortunately, the "gap" is > very small, as are the minds of the people > in it. :-) >
