--- In [email protected], akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > As a kid, maybe starting at 8 or 10, I had a repeated "inquiry" -- I > was a curious sort of kid (as in inquisitive and odd). I kept > looking at the sky and visualizing another kid my age -- in Japan > actually -- though I had not much connection there. I think it was > my idea of "as different and foreign as could be (this was around > 1960). > > And I kept asking myself, what makes me different from him. It was > clear that there were surface differences -- that was the point in > choosing someone in a vastly different culture. But I was after the > question of identity: what is it that makes me "me" different from > what makes him "him".
I remember something similar to this, although much less elaborate. I was a few years younger, I think. It suddenly occurred to me that other people must have a "me" inside them just as I did. It felt very counterintuitive to think my consciousness was not the only consciousness, but it had to be the case because other people clearly behaved as though they had their own. With considerable reluctance, I accepted that this was just the way it was, and it became part of my outlook. I also remember, roughly around the same time, wondering what it would be like if I could stop thinking. I tried and tried but couldn't do it. Essentially, I realized that trying not to think was itself a thought, although I didn't phrase it that way to myself. And I gave up, figuring that was just the way it was. My memories of these two occasions remained very clear, though, and they came to mind immediately when I began to learn something about TM. It was a source of some satisfaction to know my intuitions as a child had been on the money, if a bit frustrating that I hadn't been willing to trust them. I suspect most kids have these moments. If we could only get to them and confirm their insights before they give up and accept the Standard Model, maybe they'd be able to grow up enlightened. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
