authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It's like watching Doug Henning perform his > > close-up magic. Intellectually you know it's > > a trick, but that doesn't help you see through > > it, because it's so well done. Something *else* > > has to happen for you to perceive the trick. > > That's what everyone who is attached to attachment says. :-)
I love the analogy Judy strikes above. I've been told all this creation around me is an illusion, and I'm inclined to believe I'm being told the truth, but for the life of me I can't see how. I can see how my perception colors it, but I can't see how I'm actually creating it or how I'm being deceived. As for Barry's remark, what am I to make of that? I could gain by loosening my attachment to attachment? I'll see the illusion? If you'd like to elaborate, Barry, please feel free. --------- I wonder if anyone has ever compiled a list of all the different means by which people have awakened. There seems to be a correlation between training and awakening, but otherwise it seems random, judging from the accounts I've read. People often recount a predisposal to altered states going back to childhood, but otherwise, I've read all manner of stories of how people have popped into realization on the way to doing something else. Suzanne Segal is boarding a bus; Peter Sutphen is walking to the dome, Tom Traynor is -- what? Getting hit by a car? I forgot your story, Tom. Rory Goff says "Enough of this. I quit trying to be enlightened," et voilà. So who's to say what's needed to flip the switch? Frankly, I haven't heard a better account for all this than what has come from Maharishi. One needs to culture awareness of the self being aware of itself and raise the level of collective consciousness at large. Then, with grace, you may wake up. - Patrick Gillam To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
