On 11/30/2014 11:35 PM, TurquoiseBee wrote:
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*/In retrospect who he reminds me of the most in terms of the fluidity
of his delivery and his seeming honest comfort with the outrageous
stories he's telling is Carlos Castaneda. When I met him, he was
exactly the same way -- so sure of himself and so fluid in the way he
described "don Juan" and the magical things that went on around him
that you felt you almost *had* to believe it.
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/"Other experiences I would place in this category would be firsthand
witnessing of the siddhis. Things like invisibility, true levitation
(sitting or walking on air for long periods of time), etc. I worked
with a guy who did that stuff. Big whoop. I knew then and I know now
that the ability to do these things has nothing whatsoever to do with
whether one is enlightened or not. But witnessing these phenomena is a
real hoot, and much, much more."/
From: Uncle Tantra
Subject: Re: Meditation that is Transcendental
Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental
Date: 2003-07-24 13:29:48 PST
http://tinyurl.com/kn9fmol
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*/Then later I learned more about Carlos. Turns out that there was
strong evidence of him being a "serial liar" and "psychopathic liar"
all of his life. It was a pattern that was already present long before
he came to the US to study at UCLA. In gaining his original student
status he'd lied about his original name, where he came from in South
America, and failed to mention that he'd abandoned a wife and kid
there. /*
