--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
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