--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyway, when I would have a higher states experience in the past, > it would be like the shift of a tectonic plate within; one moment > I'm...here, and the next I'm...there, with no clarity around how > I got to 'there' from 'here'. So it could've been I was hypnotized > or externally influenced somehow. And 'I' felt different; not quite > myself. > > My experience now, with whatever I am moving from or to, is that > the experience is wholly mine and I can review the transition in > time, so that wherever I might go, be it transcending, asleep, > champagne high, emotional envelopment, etc. there is no longer > the "wha' happened?!?!?" accompaniment; I am always where I am. > > This is a different experience I think that the trance state you > are describing, because there is no loss of me at any time. While > my subjective experience may change and possibly drastically, I > am always tracking, big or small, high or low, light or dark, > its always just me.
Nice. This is a sort of non-sequitur, but what you said reminds me of a time in the Rama trip when we were studying dream yoga. There was a lot of work on becoming lucid ("waking up" in the dream and being able to control what happens in it), and after a while you got good at it, so that you no longer had to do anything to will lucidity; it just happened. And then I noticed that the lucidity was "bleeding over" into the waking state. I'd lay down to go to sleep and there was no longer any period of non- awareness. I'd just slip seamlessly from being lucid in the waking state to lucid in the dreaming state. I don't experience this that much these days, but it sure was fun at the time. As you said, waking or dreaming, it was always just me. 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/