--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > and: what is there about permanent witnessing that is NOT a > > > benchmark of some sort, enlightenment-wise? > > > > Permanent witnessing is to enlightenment as having toenails > > is to being human. > > Who told you that?
Nobody. Like most of the other stuff I write here, it's just something that came to me at the time. You aren't looking for actual profundity, are you? :-) > > Just a tiny part of a larger phenomenon... > > I remember some sort of a disassociation between what I was doing and > my subjective experience of it after a TM in-residence course, and I > think that is what you are referring to as witnessing, but honestly I > have no desire whatsoever for such an experience again. I certainly > would not want to have such an experience permanently!! I am definitely not referring to any feeling of disassociation. I understand the difference. I'm just using the term 'witnes- sing,' although I don't think much of it, because that was the term being used by others here to label a certain phenom- enon. The phenomenon I have in mind is direct awareness of the transcendent or pure consciousness at the same time one is directly aware of waking, dreaming and sleeping. Having experienced drug-induced disassociation back in the 60s, there is a vast difference between that phenomenon and the one that I thought we were discussing here. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
