--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > <snip> > > Quoting MMY again, he once said that many people in mental > > hospitals are actually in a higher state of consciousness, > > but neither they nor the people around them knew what it > > was, so they were locked up. > > Probably not "locked up" per se unless they were suicidal > or something. You don't get committed against your will > unless you're considered a danger to yourself or others. > > The official Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental > Disorders classifies dissociation as a disorder only if > it's causing a person problems. >
One of the clearest experiences I ever had of kundalini was the classical serpent along the spine experiences. If I didn't know about kundalini and all that I would have, literally, thought a very large snake had somehow gotten into my insides and was slithering along my backbone. Fortunately because I knew what it was I not only didn't think I was crazy but enjoyed the experience. But I can see how someonw without the knowledge of what it was could very well think they were crazy. > FWIW, some years before I began TM, I had experiences of > dissociation; and since then I've had experiences of > witnessing. For me, they were *very* different--and not > just on the basis of understanding what was happening. > The whole "feel" of the experiences is different. > > The thing is, it's hard to describe them in words so as > to make the difference clear, especially to somebody who > has never experienced witnessing (or who has never > experienced dissociation, for that matter). > > It's not a matter of its being the same experience but > in one case it's perceived as scary and in the other > case it's perceived as peaceful (although I can > understand why someone who wasn't prepared for the > witnessing experience could perceive it as scary and > unpleasant). > > I'm not at all sure that witnessing is a form of > dissociation; I think they're poles apart. In some ways, > they're opposites. >
