--- In [email protected], "Richard J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But, Rory, wouldn't you think that such a phenomenon > would have been mentioned by someone, somewhere? Maybe > I missed it, but could you point me to any comments that > addressed this earth-shattering event. Barry didn't > mention in in ten years of posting to Usenet; Freddy didn't > mention it in his books: 'Surfing the Himalayas' or > 'Surfing to Nirvana', and you didn't mention it in your > autobiography. What's up with that?
I don't know, Richard; maybe you didn't read my autobiography thoroughly enough, or I wasn't clear enough in my account. Either way, here it was: http://artesmagicae.com/auto6d.htm > > IME it wasn't astral or subtle-body projection, and > > it felt quite physical and real. On what level(s) of > > reality it took place I couldn't tell you, "Richard J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the level of suggestion? *lol* If you are willing to concede that the entire physical reality is on the suggestion, then, yes, absolutely :-) Rory wrote: > > but its effect was to fuse previously-differentiated > > understandings of matter and spirit into ONE. Richard wrote: > Is that what Marshy's "bum-hopping" accomplishes - fusing > "matter and spirit into ONE"? Rory wrote: I couldn't tell you what Maharishi's "bum hopping" accomplishes, as I really don't know how to ascribe cause and effect in this instance, or even in my life as a whole :-) Richard wrote: >What do you suppose people > would say about this at <sci.skeptic>? http://groups.google.com/group/sci.skeptic/topics Rory wrote: Why do you suppose I would care? People are *expert* at maintaining their own blind-spots and realities, that much I do know :-) > > As Barry says, this kind of experience is visceral and > > *intense* and IME took many years to fully assimilate. Richard wrote: > > > This kind of experience is usually described as being > under the influence of a trance-induction state or > hypnosis. Sometimes it's described as mixing up and > passing out the kool-aid. Rory wrote: Describe it how you will, Richard; apparently you weren't there (for whatever reason) and apparently I was :-)
