--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "nelsonriddle2001"
> > <nelsonriddle2001@> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "compost1uk" <compost1uk@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > But Nelson - why does that add up to "many realities"? Why not
> > > > just "multiple perspectives on the same, one, reality"?
> > > >
> > > > If I see you in the distance, I see only one side of you. That
> > > > doesn't mean I don't see *you*: It just means my perception is
> > > > incomplete.
> > > >
> > > > If, at the same time, someone is gazing at your other side -
> > > > does that mean we are blessed with TWO Nelson Riddles?
> > >
> > > I would hope not,,
> >
> > *That* is the reaction I am most fascinated by.
>
> To follow up on this a little, one of the reasons
> I like the "multiple realities" theory is that it
> helps to explain subjective experiences that I and
> others have had of "past life flashbacks."
>
> Interestingly, when such flashbacks occur, at least
> to me, the subjective experience of them is *not*
> that they happened in the past and I am "remembering"
> them. It's that they are happening Right Here, Right
> Now, and that for some reason I am just tapping into
> them, as if I had accessed a separate-but-equal
> timeline which is still going on.
>
> Surely you've heard raps from physics or the New Age
> about the theory that time does not exist, and that
> everything is happening at once in an eternal Now.
> According to such theories, time is the illusion.
>
> This is *exactly* what the "past life flashbacks"
> that I and many friends I know who have had similar
> flashbacks feels like. It feels as if we have some-
> how "shifted timelines" and are experiencing Right
> Here Right Now something that *theoretically* may
> have happened in the past, but *feels* as if it
> is still happening.
>
> If there is any "meat" to this theory, then maybe
> there really ARE two Nelson Riddles. Or many, many
> more than two.
>
> And what would be the harm in that? If time *were*
> the illusion and everything you are experiencing
> at this moment *is* really happening in the same
> eternal, out-of-time moment as everything you have
> *ever* experienced, I see that as a "no harm, no
> foul" situation.
>
> Even if you've never had anything you could call a
> "past life flashback," have you ever had an exper-
> ience that was so profound as to *completely*
> shift your state of attention? One moment you're
> in same old same old Waking State and the next you
> are in some very, very different state of conscious-
> ness? I kinda suspect that many people here have
> had such an experience or awakening.
>
> OK, now "go back" and *focus* on that experience,
> not just remembering it hazily but "recapitulating"
> it in the Castanedan sense, really diving into it.
> Whenever I do this with any of these experiences,
> the first thing I notice is the "Nowness" of the
> experience. It is *not* as if I'm remembering some-
> thing that happened in the past; it's more like I
> am "re-experiencing" something that maybe happened
> in the past, but is *also* happening *again*, here
> and Now. It's the damnedest sensation.
>
> The benefit of this, as I perceive it, is that
> often such a recapitulation "brings back" or
> "reactivates" the shifted state of attention that
> I experienced the first time the experience happened.
> And not just on the level of mood-making; if the
> original experience involved, say, the ability to
> perform some siddhi that I don't usually have,
> that "comes back," too.
>
> All of this is just speculation, of course, but since
> I've been having fun speculating about other things
> this morning, I just thought out I'd throw out one
> more for your consideration. Or for *both* of your
> considerations, if there really are two Nelson
> Riddles. Or for *all* of your considerations, if
> as I suspect there are an infinite number of you. :-)
>
Don't feel infinite but, have expierienced the mutual cognition of the big
and small I and think that two is enough- get tired enough as it is.
