If Vaj was within two feet of the Dalai Lama and had been balmisized, how is that different if Vaj reported that he'd once been at the back of a lecture hall filled with folks hearing the Dalai Lama's sermon and had been balmisized by that? Are we saying that the closer to the fire the greater the heat, or, do we believe the balmisizing has nothing to do with physical distance?
IOW, Vaj doesn't ever have to have had a real meeting with the Dalai Lama for balmisizing to have happened. All that's really required is that Vaj be properly prepared spiritually for the experience. The closer one physically gets to the Dalai Lama, the more easily the brain can be filled with a constant triggering, e.g., "OMG, I'm here with the Dalai Lama," or "The Dalai Lama just touched me." etc., but a mind such as the one Vaj presents daily to us could easily be as involved and intensely focused on a spectrum of expectations from merely contemplating the Dalai Lama since Vaj's involvement with Buddhism is so deep. Two women try to pick up a car, but only the mother of the trapped child lifts it, like that. Whether or not there's something really given to Vaj from the Dalai Lama, I can easily see a very real life change happening to Vaj from simply the placebo effect combined with a spiritual intent that is daily and frequently entertained by Vaj. It's as understandable as the results of faith healers or bone shakers or voodoo rites -- real things can happen no matter if the presumed dynamics are actually operative. I had some chicken meat taken from my body and nothing came of it. Why? I was paying my $125 just to see up close how the magic act was conducted. I wasn't there in a mind prepared to change. And, verily I got what I was paying for -- I got a tee shirt that said, "I went to a psychic surgeon, and all I got was salmonella." I envy those who can get real results by any method. Any of Grate Swan's list of possibilities would do me. Hook or crook, what does it matter? Blessed are those who believe and have not seen -- it's a powerful tool if one can, you know, work it, and make believing things a daily regimen. What would Jesus do? -- another example? Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote: > > > > On May 10, 2009, at 3:06 AM, raunchydog wrote: > > > > > Look whose dumping from his high horse now. If Vaj > > > wants to make scientific claims for the Dalai Lama's > > > spiritual whammy powers (red pen spelling correction > > > noted) he could at least back it up. I'm not even > > > asking for a study, just one little personal > > > experience. > <snip> > > > > What made you think that the post was meant to "make > > scientific claims for the Dalai Lama's spiritual > > whammy powers"? That's a pretty bizarre claim. > > True, Vaj has been explicit that he's making > *unscientific* claims for the Dalai Lama's > spiritual whammy powers (post #218203): > > "Before there was scientific replication, it was > known and replicated many, many times." > > > Not all of us are interested in talking about > > ourselves endlessly, even though we've had similar > > experiences. > > Translation: Vaj hasn't had an experience of > "pacification" from the Dalai Lama. >
