Dear S3, in my experience what you wrote before here was really fine and true in experience. Empty here in a kind of sophistry of baiting is just trying to have you chase your own tail for us to watch. Stick with your own spiritual experience on this. It is fine. Others may weep.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raph...@yahoo.com> wrote : No wonder you need to claim an Emerson quote. Damn yanks were always confused but it must make perfect sense across the pond in the local parish. The quote was from Walt Whitman. But Emerson could have supplied a choice sentence. As could Thoreau or William James or Emily Dickinson. All Yanks and making perfect sense. If "we is all one" then why isn't there confusion of memories and identities between all these "apparent" individuals? That's the million-dollar question. Sometimes the wires do get crossed and there is just such a confusion - as when individuals claim to suddenly experience a previous life - as Barry has so claimed on FFL. Why should it be a previous life of Barry's and not the life experience of another man entirely as seen by The One, the transcendental self which is witnessing everything? As memories belong to our lower self they are localised to each individual brain/body. Normally each of us is locked into our own apparent and separate personalities. If we weren't the game of life would be a cacophony that would leave everyone paralysed so the seeming separation has a survival benefit. And this way we can love and hate each other. Exciting huh? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <emptybill@...> wrote : S3 Each of us is that One Self. Oh ... I get it. The great shruti of the Brahmarishi-s. "Us is One". No wonder you need to claim an Emerson quote. Damn yanks were always confused but it must make perfect sense across the pond in the local parish. If "us is one" then when my current thought "I am Emptybill" suddenly ends, as all thoughts do, why isn't my next thought "I am Bhari2"? And then my next thought ... "I am Willy the Moron or "Us Chanuchistani's need to stick together"? If "we is all one" then why isn't there confusion of memories and identities between all these "apparent" individuals?
