--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> >--- TurquoiseB wrote:
> >
> > The most interesting person I ever encountered
> > in this regard was Bruce Willis. He has the ability
> > to be as famous as he is and be in a crowd of people
> > and "go invisible," to the point that almost no one
> > notices him. Being able to "push it out" is kid
> > stuff, occultly; being able to "pull it in" this
> > way is far more difficult.
>
> I wonder what the relationship may be
> between invisibility and transparency.
>
> I talked to a woman on the phone last
> year who left me the impression of being
> transparent, not in the sense that I could
> see through her ruses and spot her intentions
> at their core, but in the sense that she had
> no ruses, no agenda, and was merely living
> life as it determined to live itself through
> her. Does that make sense?
Yes, but that's a different thing than what
I was talking about re Bruce Willis. In his
case it's definitely an "invisibility" siddhi
that is under his control. I've run into him
a few times, and sometimes he "pushes it out"
when he's supposed to be a star and the focus
of the gathering, and when he's not he "pulls
it in" and just disappears. I liken it to
Carlos Castaneda's descriptions of
"inaccessibility."
> It was in the context of interviewing
> people about new jobs they'd taken on.
> Except for the one person above, everyone
> else had an ego stake in the proceedings.
> They reveled in their success or quaked
> in the prospect of failure. Their egos
> were tangible, opaque objects. This one
> person, though, whose name was Angela,
> perhaps appropriately ("Angel"), didn't
> seem to have an agenda. She lacked an
> opaque ego to block the light. She was
> doing her work and being supported by
> all around her, and marveling at the process.
She sounds like a wonderful person. I'd hire her,
because that's the kind of person you want in
a team situation.
