---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote :
The current physiological model used to explain PC explains why it is impossible to have sensory perception OR mental perception during the "pure" state of PC. It is possible that the model is wrong. It is also possible taht you are an exception to the rule. That doesn't seem very likely, I don't think brains are that different in their reaction to the same stimulus. Unless I've been doing it wrong all these years. It is also possible that what you call PC sin't what others call PC. That's more likely but pure awareness is going to have a component of awareness or it isn't consciousness at all. Perhaps I'm just years ahead of the rest of you... L. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : Lawson said: '...PC is without any kind of perception at all -sensory, thinking, intuition, whatever.' I never liked this idea of PC, I had loads of experiences of what I would call Pure Consciousness and they didn't involve being unconscious, rather like a giant mirror reflecting nothing. When I got the hang of it I could decide whether to have thoughts or not. Don't say that it can't have been PC if I could have desires, like everything in that state it all lays dormant until you want it back, but as soon as you become aware of something in the environment or your body (such as not breathing) the spell would break. More later.
