--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: > > > > > > During the first years of my "doing" TM I often "saw" a > > "blue sun" somewhat like this: > > > > http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/166805main_image_feature_736_ys_full.\ jpg > > > > As I recall it, the color was more even, and the "sun" had > > small flames on the edge. I also seem to recall it was > > very slowly "approaching" me and the disappering to start > > the same all over again. > > > > Can't recall when I stopped "seeing" it. If it occasionally > > appears nowadaze, it's rather "ragged"... > > > > A number of physiological possibilities as well. As one example random activity in the visual cortex in the brain sometimes is interpreted as a pattern. Similarly, neuron activity in the retina can create lights (rub you eyes, you li see lights). Many people have this experience, whether meditating or just closing their eyes before they sleep.>
So it could be a result of a random physiological response you are saying. First you must make the massive assumption that randomness can exist. Second you must assume that the organs and flesh of the body is the prime reality, and that the subtle body of the energies that make up your physical reactions and your brain activity is secondary, and unimportant. Both these assumptions are questionable at best, but more likely simply irrational and whimsical. Can you say for sure that the mental images picked up by the mind are merely effulgences of random physiological phenomena, or could the physiological phenomena (eg. "random activity in the visual cortex" as you put it.) be reacting to more subtle changes in the underlying field that ermeates your brain? Which are you willing to subscribe to macroscopic classical physics, and which to subtle quantum effects? Which will you catogorize in one camp, and which in another, and how will you defend your choices? By what yardstick will you partition and reduce the universe to managable segments, and will that unit of measure be univerally accepted in all quarters such that your control over the worldscape is consolidated and solidified to the extant that you would be satisfied with? OffWorld
