--- In [email protected], "pranamoocher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jim: > Your post is truly an inspiration to me (and everyone else, I'm > sure) and one of the first public descriptions with such details > I've seen or had access to. Many thanks for sharing.
I've been thinking that it's exactly this idea of "sharing" that made it different, and that allowed some light to shine through it. It was honest, off the cuff, with (as far as I could tell) no intent involved *other* than the desire to share. I liked it. There is something that happens when you write like that, when you just "get out of your own way." There was a time in the TMO when I was being called upon to teach a lot of "advanced lectures" (which, in retrospect, weren't very "advanced") and residence courses. I could lay down a good rap, and so people seemed to enjoy my talks on "SCI and Sci-Fi" and other such (for the TMO) weird stuff. But what *I* enjoyed was the Q&A sessions after the prepared talks. People would ask questions. Some of the questions you already had pat, prepared answers to from Maha- rishi. You know the schtick..."Every question is a perfect opportunity for the answer we have already prepared," and all that. Boring. But then someone would ask a question that I didn't have a prepared answer for. Hell, half the time I didn't *know* the ansser to the question. And sometimes I'd be opening my mouth, about to say just that -- that I had no clue -- and an answer would come out instead. And damned if it wasn't a *good* answer, one that I'd never managed to put into words before, nor had thought of in exactly that way. My kinda fun. Anyway, I liked Jim's rap because it felt to me as if in this one he got out of his own way and just allowed the story to tell itself.
