Exactly. Sad thing is, some people get stuck on that initial phase and never move beyond. When they go to a form of deep meditation, they're often shocked at how 'the bottom drops out' of their 'transcendent'. Usually after that they realize they were simply languishing in a light, blissy trance state, sometimes for decades.
Sounds like someone I know...me! Although I have not had the bottom fall out of my world I did experience the world falling out of my bottom in New Delhi! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 20, 2008, at 8:41 AM, Peter wrote: > > > By the way, being trained to teach TM and hypnosis and > > having experienced both here's my take: TM and > > hypnosis are initially identical > > > Exactly. Sad thing is, some people get stuck on that initial phase and > never move beyond. When they go to a form of deep meditation, they're > often shocked at how 'the bottom drops out' of their 'transcendent'. > Usually after that they realize they were simply languishing in a > light, blissy trance state, sometimes for decades. >
