--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However, the disfunctional kind of witnessing found in the DSM-IV
often speaks of having
> a viewpoint as though outside and above and/or behind the body with a
definite sense of
> geographic location.
>
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What the DSM describes ("depersonalization") has nothing to do with
witnessing arising from practice of TM, which witnessing is a calm
experience and a sign of strength based on the expansion of awareness,
and is not a sign of a traumatized nervous system, as depersonalization
is:
"A person suffering from depersonalization disorder experiences
subjective symptoms of unreality that make him or her uneasy and
anxious."
http://www.minddisorders.com/Del-Fi/Depersonalization-disorder.html
The only real practical reason why TMers are tipped off to witnessing
is so that when they begin to experience it, they do not think
something is wrong with them, but understand that witnessing is a sign
of growth of Cosmic Consciousness values. Otherwise, people might start
to think that something is going wrong, but witnessing is nothing like
the anxious process of depersonalization experienced by the traumatized.
