--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander <mailander111@> wrote: > > > > One of my favorite quotes from last week is this from > > Sandy Ego: > > > > Now I will explain myself, and please see if you can > > discriminate between what I am saying, and what you > > think I am > > saying. > > > > If he creates his world with his thoughts and > > perceptions, and, moreover thinks this is what > > everyone else should also be doing or they're deluded, > > then, how, in heaven's name can I know what anyone > > saying? I can only know what I think they're saying. > > > > I'm pasting an interesting article below about a > > scientist who recorded her experience of having a > > stroke and then spoke about it on TED talks because it > > may shed an interesting light on "higher states." > > > > I've had experiences of what's been described as > > "Unity," I can switch into that experience at will, > > but, for the life of me, I can't see that it is a > > "higher state" than any other state I've experienced. > > They're just states, useful for some things, not so > > useful for others. And no matter how much my > > experience is that I am the author of my universe, my > > body still ages. I'm a very, very long way from the > > time I had a job in a key club, wearing stilettos and > > net stockings while delivering heavy trays of food and > > drinks from a dirty kitchen to dirty old men. > > > > Well, I don't know that there is really such a thing as Unity consciousness using the TM > definition, but it is obvious that you are not and never have been in that state, by the TM > definition. > > > I'm not convinced that such a state exists in anyone currently, or, if it does, that MMY ever > was in it, but, using the TM definition, which you have implicitly acknowledged, you are > not and never have been, in said state. > > THAT said, I can see why you don't find the non-existence of the state in yourself to be of > any value... > > > Just an observation. > > > Lawson > Until proven otherwise, I claim there is a state of Unity Consciousness as defined by MMY (tho as you I can not speak to what the above experience is)
My first UC (type) experience was on a rounding course - and had been having CC state for about a week (BTW, on that winter course there were snow drifts inside the hallways of Howard Dorm, and sorta warm water a few hours a week, anyone else there at that time?) and I took some advice from Walter Koch who once said that if one is 'feeling Being' do what you can to shake it and don't try to hold on to it. Anyways, I was at the cafeteria eating heavy foods like tons of peanut butter and yukking it up with the 'rebels' trying to shake Being, and someone I did not know very well walked into the room and I witnessed myself walking into the room - and what almost caused to upload my mouthful of food was that the -- I am That, You are That -- is not a metaphor, it is not some warm fuzzy poetic leap, but is is a crisp undeniable recognition - - and over the next few days the frequency of such recognitions increased
