--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only value in hearing about others' experiencing > is that it is entertaining and it can clarify certain > concepts that pertain to higher states of > consciousness. Having a quiver of these concepts at > your ready is helpful so the mind won't go insane when > it starts to experience realization.
I'm not convinced that hearing the experiences of other people helps in any way to prepare you for having similar experiences. I'm more interested in hearing experiences that are similar in some way to experiences I have already *had*. In those cases, sometimes the other person's way of expres- sing things or phrasing things can give me more insight into my own variant of those experiences. Plus, there are certain types of experiences that cannot, almost by definition, be remembered fully. For example, experiences of alternate states of consciousness that one had originally in dreaming. But when someone else speaks of those experiences, sometimes hearing their attempt at remembrance can act as kind of a trigger to help one remember the essence of one's own experience, even though the details of that experience can never be fully remembered in the waking state or expressed in words. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
