Seraphita, in this case, with so many unknown variables, what we conclude probably says more about ourselves and our beliefs than it does about Bentov. Theoretically Bentov could have seen the no aura situation in the waiting area before boarding and then told his wife. One imagines all kinds of conversations they then had. Maybe he was a risk taker. Maybe he was questioning his aura reading abilities and wanted to experiment. Maybe he came out of meditation too fast (-: I think doing TM balances brain functioning. That might mean that the reptilian brain no longer dominates one's decision making process.
________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 9:46 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Itzhak Bentov reaches for the skies Itzhak Bentov wrote a couple of entertaining books exploring new-agey ideas back in the 1970s. He was also a keen advocate of transcendental meditation -but not a starry-eyed advocate as he was also an early pioneer in exploring the issue of "kundalini syndrome" and he knew from personal experience that TM could have unpleasant side-effects. On which, see the appendix to "Stalking the Wild Pendulum". One thing that's always puzzled me is the story that as he was boarding American Airlines Flight 191 he realised that no one on the plane had an aura and so he knew that they were all destined to die. He got on the plane anyway . . . and so bye-bye Bentov. Now, if he really realised that the plane was going tits up why did he board the aircraft? Does doing TM damage your survival instinct?
