On Apr 25, 2006, at 9:38 AM, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis wrote:
> Jim Flanegin writes:
> Hey Tom, I am curious about the relationship your levitation
> experience you shared here, and having slipped onto a different
> stage as you mention above. Did the levitation serve (1) as that
> last boundary to break, and right onto Brahman, or was it instead
> (2) a very powerful catalyst to the eventual realization of Brahman
> later on?
>
> Tom T:
> Actually it was choice #2. I guess you might say I am a little slow.
> The aftermath of the levitation was the onset of the dark dark night
> of the soul. That continued for 3+ years and even then although in
> looking back I had many of the characteristics of being awake I was
> still not Self knowing Self. It was a gradual many year event. The
> waking down folks call it oozing. The final getting of it occured
> standing on the side of a road telling a simple story to a friend. In
> the midst of telling the story came the understanding I am awake. I
> never missed a beat on the story and the event was a very ho hum
> event. Looking back I can now see that events that used to be very
> binding ceased in 1996 but it took another 5 years plus moving to FF
> to kind of wrap it all up. As has been mentioned before you have to
> know you are THAT. Until I knew, I was living the life but did not
> have the appreciation nor the perspective that the final understanding
> gives you. Even after I knew I was awake it took a beautiful email
> here to finally understand Brahman. It was a guy from Madison WI who
> wrote about his experience that was the final tip over. I read his
> story and looked up and there was a dramatic shift and then every
> where I looked all I intitally saw was my self. Things would morph
> back into objects but the intial and the real understanding was that
> every thing I encountered was myself. That is why I still post because
> maybe there is another out here who will get it because of some simple
> thing I have shared here. Tom T
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