Since Billy brought up this issue, and because it's another rainy cafe day here in Sitges, I thought I'd spend a few minutes rappin' about attraction, but from a somewhat different perspective.
The Rama guy I studied with (whatever one might think of him) had a fascination with and a knowledge of the occult side of life. That is, the study of energy and how it can be "moved around" to affect consciousness and people's perceptions. So one of the things we talked about a lot was what's actually *going on* when we find another person attractive. Sometimes it's innocent, and we're just fascinated by something that we see in another person's aura (even if we can't consciously see auras, in his view that's what we're always seeing). But other times the thing that we find ourselves being attracted to is the other person "pushing it out," energetically. Call it shakti, call it kundalini, call it charisma, it's a science of sorts. If you know how to do it, you can "push it out" and capture the attention of others *no matter what you look like*. It's almost a form of "energy cosmetics" or "shakti-based push-up bras." :-) He would demonstrate "pushing it out" for us, and show us examples of it in other students, so that we could use our "seeing" to try to identify the "energy sig- anture" associated with it. One of the first experiences I had after hearing some of these talks and seeing these "demos" that validated them in my mind was in L.A. I was early for a movie in Westwood, and chose to go to a little food stand there while waiting. It was *not* a classy place, more of a hamburger stand, with formica tables and not much ambiance. And as I was sitting there, I found my attention being drawn over and over to a woman who was sitting across the room. She had her back to me, and so all I could really see was her hair. But for some reason I just could not keep my eyes off of her. She was dressed casually as far as I could tell from the back, wearing jeans and a nondescript blouse. And there was really no "body language" to explain why I found my attention going to her over and over, because she was just sit- ting there talking quietly with her companion. So I was a little puzzled as to why I couldn't keep my eyes off of her. Then finally she stood up and turned around and I understood why. It was Lesley Ann Warren. She had recently been nominated for an Oscar for her work as a bimbo in "Victor Victoria." But "dressed down" as she was, and wearing sunglasses, my bet is that I was the only person in the cafe other than her companion who recognized her *as* Lesley Ann Warren. Nevertheless, when she stood up and walked to the door, *every eye in the cafe* was following her. Male and female. Why? She was "pushing it out." Her "charisma" was a factor of moving her own kundalini in ways that caused it to radiate outwards, and create an energy field that others found attractive, and that captured their attention. After that I started paying more attention when I ran into people who seemed to have "charisma" or be able to "capture attention," and subjectively I found that I always "saw" the same energy signature. The woman or man who walked into a party and caused every head in the room to turn and look at them -- pushing it out. The woman walking along the Venice boardwalk who in reality was no more attractive than any other woman, or dressed more suggestively, but whom *every* person turned and watched until she was out of sight -- pushing it out. Once you've "nailed" the energy signature, you can spot it a mile away. For Billy, I might suggest that if having one's atten- tion captured by women is *not* one of your goals in life, learning to tell when one of them is "pushing it out" is a great way to recognize the energy sig- nature when you run into it, and not fall for it to the point of resenting the woman for it and writing afterwards about what a lowlife she probably is. :-) For others here, another reason I bring this up is that some *spiritual teachers* use this same energy signature and the occult ability to "push it out" to attract students. Many seekers in the audiences, not aware of what is going on on an energetic or occult level, interpret this ability to "push it out" as enlightenment, when in fact it might not be. Again, learning to recognize the energy signature can help to tell the mere occultists from the teachers who might actually have something real going for them.
