Unc: > > The kung-fu of denial is FAR more powerful than the > > kung-fu of science. :-)
Curtis: > Nice one! Agreed. In my experience, it's more than a snappy one-liner. There is real truth in it. The power of denial is fuckin' AWESOME, man. :-) The ability of self to perpetuate its own illusions and preconceptions in order to perpetuate self never ceases to amaze me. And it's as true for science as it is for anything in the spiritual realm. Just look at how the Bushies pervert science and force scientists to rewrite their findings to support their agenda. Look at Shemp, and his enduing ability to not believe that global warming is an issue. It's the same in the spiritual realm. The ability of people to hold onto their preconceptions, *despite their own perceptions to the contrary* is nothing short of amazing. > > Technically, it's a navel chakra thang. It's like someone > > punching you in the stomach, not a one-time punch but a > > continual pressure on that area of the body. It can be > > disconcerting until you get used to it. > > Very Don Juan, or even more Don Genero! Remember how > he used to terrify "Carlitos" when he would take a dump > and make the earth shake! Very similar, but different. The energy I spoke of above, the "navel-chakra hit," was just one of many. Each of the siddhis I witnessed had its own energy field, and its own set of effects on the body and mind of anyone sitting in close proximity to the siddhi being performed. And each energy field was different, related in some way to the siddhi being performed. And an important distinction that I have to make is that each of the energy fields that I subject- ively felt as a result of witnessing siddhis was *completely different* from the energy field I associate with enlightenment. The latter was just pure silence, infinity, eternity, without attributes of any type, sheer expansiveness, Self incarnate. The energy field associating the siddhis was something different. Not necessarily better (although I personally alway preferred the enery field of enlightenment to the energy field of the siddhis), but *definitely* different. It was as if the energy field or aura surrounding the siddhis was very much relative, although "finer relative," whereas the energy field I associate with a clean, pure meditation was not relative in any way. Hard to put into words. Also, of course, there was no "reaction," either in mind or body, to the energy field of enlight- enment or samadhi. There was never any tendency to disbelieve it or "make it go away," whereas there generally was with experiencing the energy field of the siddhis. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get to your groups with one click. Know instantly when new email arrives http://us.click.yahoo.com/.7bhrC/MGxNAA/yQLSAA/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/
