--- In [email protected], "larry.potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > < big snip. trying again, let see if it goes this time .. > > > > << Walking home from that bus ride, she felt like a "cloud of > awareness" following the body. The cloud was a witness located > behind and to the left of the body and completely separate from > body, mind and emotions. The witness was constant and so was FEAR, > the fear of complete physical dissolution. The witnessing continued > for several months, even during sleep, and Segal had to endure the > fear and the accompanying stress, finding relief in long and > frequent sleeps. .. >> > > > I find SUZANNE's description to have contradictions, but maybe some > sees it in a different light. > > If Suzanne got to such detached state of non-localize witnessing > as she describes, how can she feel fear and terror at the same time? > > Fear is only a delusion of a localized consciousness , meaning, > attachment to the boundaries while some of her description > suggests pure witnessing state, non boundaries state. > > maybe she was just in a transition states and her description > is a mere of what her mind was telling "her" what she is witnessing, > I wouldn't take a face-value to her statements..
She does talk, later in her book, about the recognition that fear is just another 'state' that is witnessed. She has a conversation with Jean Kline, where he points this out. After this the fear diminishes, and she recognizes the unity of her enviroment and the Self. JohnY
