--- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > As for the language form used, my point concerned the use > > > of language that is coming from a trance state and is > > > meant to shift the state of the listener from sensory > > > based to internal connections based. > > > > Exactly. > > I'm going to rudely follow up on my own post, > because this paragraph of Curtis' really nails > it for me. > > I have often toyed in the past -- hopefully > shifting this discussion away from Rory and to > a more general discussion of people in general > who run this particular "trance form" -- the > idea that some people who do this do it as a > kind of defense mechanism. > > The generic spiritual teacher grows used to all > of his or her students taking everything he/she > says as gospel, and then a skeptic appears. That > skeptic *doesn't* take every word as if it flows > from on high, and may in fact get in the teacher's > face. > > My theory is that when this happens, *some* of > these form-running teachers shift *into* a trance > state, before answering. The trance state is a > familiar and comforting subjective mindstate, a > literal "comfort zone." And then, safely surrounded > by the comfort zone trance, they answer the skeptic > from "within" it. > > That's my theory, anyway. Tonight. In this cafe, > still in Paris but leaving tomorrow for my vacation. > The theory may change drastically during this > vacation, or for that matter, even later tonight. :-) > > It will almost certainly change as I wait for my > train tomorrow in Gare de Lyon. I plan to set the > road trip off to a good start by having a drink or > two at the bar of a restaurant there in the station. > > What? A "railway station bar/restaurant" NOT your > idea of a Cool Place to have a celebratory drink? > Clearly you have never been to Le Train Bleu:
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