--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@> > wrote: > > > > And what are the mechanics behind the ability to broadcast > > an SOC? > > I have no earthly idea. I report only on my subjective > experience of working with these teachers. > > > I am asking this because your description makes it sound like > > a radio broadcast - a mental projection or something like that? > > Something like that. Or, as I have suggested in the > past about "darshan," being able to put on a SOC so > powerfully that others in the audience could be in > the same room and somehow "recognize" in the teacher's > SOC the counterpart of a "matching" SOC that was within > them, just not realized yet, and as a result "access" it. > That's a more "non-doing" theory, but this is pure spec- > ulation on my part. I have no idea how it was done, only > *that* it was done.
One facet of this that most intrigues me, because it is such a "game changer" compared to almost all other descriptions of different states of consciousness, is that these folks had the ability to "put on" a state of consciousness *at will*. Think about that. The model most of us have been presented with along the spiritual path is that SOCs are "achieved" or "realized," but then you're kinda stuck with them. You "get to" CC, but you can't then put on the consciousness of normal waking state if you want to, say, for teaching purposes. Similarly, if you "get to" UC, you can't then "backtrack" during a talk on GC and temporarily "wear" that state of consciousness in order to model it or demo it for your students. These guys could. They could change states of conscious- ness more quickly than you can change clothes. They weren't "stuck in" *any* of them. I find that not only fascinating, but far more impressive than the traditional model of unidirectional, linear progression through the different states of consciousness. At least one of them spoke about this. In his opinion, all of these states of consciousness were *congruent*, meaning that they were simultaneously present at all times. You merely accessed the state you wanted. There was no "achieving" or "realization" needed, merely the decision to select from a "menu of available options." Clearly, these guys all believed in free will. :-) Please bear in mind that none of these people believed in the "seven states of consciousness" as presented by Maharishi. I'm using WC, CC, GC and UC here because that is how most on this forum think. The teachers I'm talking about would consider that model a gross oversimplification. Most were Buddhist, and believed more in its "ten thousand states of mind" (which is a euphemism for "lots and lots of them, possibly an infinite number of them" not a number per se).
