Nice. Yep, evidently it happens. I read your post out to my wife who knows these kinds of things more: Nice. How did he know it was Bonaventure? This happened to Carolyn Myss who wrote anatomy of spirit. This was a person, a kind of a left-brain person, who was learning about the chakra system who had her experiences with it, becoming an amazing intuitive with it. Then, in the middle of a public lecture, and totally out of the blue, St. Teresa of Avalon, bam. She was rendered to her, awakened to her. Myss was incapacitated by it for a while. She was giving a lecture and this happened. This happened. She would communicate with her. In many ways it would change her life. Myss was an edgy person. This broke her heart open, she had this incredible conversion.. They are out there. This conversion of her personality, this influence on her personality came from .. for her it was like a darshan, like a super-duper darshan experience. This was not a psychotic episode. Nope, you know how it is like with Ammachi when people get smited. People have these meltdowns, have something shift there, is just like that. -JaiGuruYou
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <yifux...@yahoo.com> wrote : Otherwise known as St. Bonaventure, (1221 - 1274), whom I believe was/is a "Transcendentalist" based on his writings, as was Aquinas. During that era (and all other eras for Catholics), one best phrase mystical experiences in the proper context (preferably in the light of dualistic devotion to Jesus); rather than the all-pervasive Ground of Being. The Inquisition had its roots in St. Bonaventure's day. ....In any event, I only bring him up because to my utter amazement, he appeared to me in a positively brilliant form last night in the dream state; radiating energy so other-worldly that my nervous system in that state virtually melted but could not easily record as a memory (since there was no previous data bank to account for that type of experience). But during the experience I immediately knew that the amazing vibes this Saint radiated was only the reflected light of Jesus Why he appeared to me as opposed to somebody else, I don't know (yet). He said nothing specific. Just radiated the most amazing energy to a small group of persons including me. Trumpian hastag: "More, more!" Bonaventure - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonaventure#/media/File:Francisco_de_Zurbar%C3%A1n_012.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonaventure#/media/File:Francisco_de_Zurbar%C3%A1n_012.jpg Bonaventure - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonaventure#/media/File:Francisco_de_Zurbar%C3%A1n_012.jpg Saint Bonaventure (Italian: San Bonaventura; 1221 – 15 July 1274),[1] born Giovanni di Fidanza, was an Italian medieval Franciscan, scholastic theolo... View on en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonaventure#/media/File:Francisco_de_Zurbar%C3%A1n_012.jpg Preview by Yahoo .
