--- In [email protected], t3rinity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another man I met had an appearance of Shirdi Sai Baba. > Again he had never seen a picture of him, had nothing to > do with Hinduism, and only recognized him when he saw the > picture later in a Sai Baba center (while he was searching > - he never went for Puttaparthy Sai Baba.)
Not to dispute this person's experience but to tell a funny story that may or may not relate to it, a fellow who had just gotten involved with the Rama trip told a story about meeting Rama in a dream before he met him in the physical. The dream had impressed him enough that he wrote it down in his Journal, years earlier. So he met the Rama guy, decided immediately that this was the guy he'd seen in his dream, and signed up to study with him. Then, months later, he discovered his old Journals and found what he had actually written at the time about the guy in his dream -- he was a short Asian guy with long, straight hair. Rama was 6 foot 4, was clearly Western, and had fairly short curly hair. The guy, to his credit, had himself a good laugh at himself at that point and just kept on keepin' on. What I think happens sometimes is that we have experiences in other planes of existence that have *no* "mapping" to the plane of existence of our "normal" waking state. The realities are so differ- ent that there is simply no *counterpart* in our reality for the things we experienced in the alter- nate reality. So the mind does its best to "map" the experiences of the alternate reality to the reality of the waking state. And sometimes what happens is that we wind up mapping the "vibe" of the experience, not the actual details of the experience. That is, we encounter something or someone in our waking state reality whose "vibe" reminds us of the "vibe" that part of us remembers from the alternate reality, and we merge the two in our minds. It's just a theory, but one which I've had to deal with often when trying to come up with some way to write about experiences I've had for which there is simply is no analogue in the thing we call "everyday reality." ------------------------ 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/
