--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <jpgillam@>
> wrote:
> <snip>
> > There's a school of thought that individuals pick up
> > thoughts the way radios pick up signals. Maybe we
> > find ourselves surprised at thoughts and actions
> > because they're not really "ours."
> >
> > I got to thinking about this upon reading the following
> > at the Wikipedia page for Rudolf Steiner:
> >
> > "In his epistemological works, he advocated the
> > Goethean view that thinking itself is a perceptive
> > instrument for ideas, just as the eye is a perceptive
> > instrument for light."
> >
> > What do people think of this? Does it jibe with your experience?
>
> I sometimes find that I seem to know things I have no
> "normal" basis for knowing. It's odd because I don't
> have any sense that I came to know them in anything but
> the normal way. The information doesn't have a kind of
> aura that says "INTUITION" or "TELEPATHY" or anything
> like that; I seem to know it in the same way I'd know
> it if, say, I had read it in a book or someone had
> told me or I had discovered it from my own empirical
> observation.
>
> Because it seems so normal and natural, it took me quite
> a while to realize there's anything at all odd about
> it. It's only when I stop and ask myself, How do I know
> this? that I realize there's a discrepancy, that it seems
> to have bypassed the usual routes by which I acquire
> information.
+++ Believing in reincarnation will explain this- you learned it
previously but the recall system is erratic.
I think it was the great philosopher Yoda who said that believing
was seeing. N.
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