--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> wrote: > > > > Oh, OK- Got it. So my question back is, what practical difference in > > your life would it make if you witnessed someone, even yourself, > > externally manifesting a sidhi? > > > > Would deep contentment well up from within you? Would you gain > > eternal peacefulness? Would your life be ever dedicated to God? Or > > would you think about how neat it was, and then just go back to > > whatever patterns your life has taken on? > > I think that anyone who thinks that witnessing the > siddhis would change their life in a major way is > fooling themselves. Been there, done that, so often > over a period of fourteen years that we all got kinda > bored watching them being demonstrated. Ho hum, he's > levitating again. > > Don't get me wrong...at first there *is* a liberating > effect of witnessing these things, along the lines > of a simultaneous "letting go" of a lifetime's dis- > belief in such phenomena. At the same time there is > a level of physical freakout that is difficult to > put into words (Carlos Castaneda does it well IMO), > as your body reacts to having its world turned upside > down. > > But in the long run, other than opening you in a very > personal way to the possibility of "more things in > heaven and earth, Horatio," it's not really as earth- > shaking as one might imagine. > > Especially if one believes as I do (and always did, > even while witnessing these things) that there is > absolutely no connection between the siddhis and > enlightenment. > > > By the way, the best book I ever read of people manifesting sidhis > > was by one of this planet's most powerful and magnificent saints, > > Yogananda. His recountings are 100% true, so what more do you need? > > Again, I think that many aren't as in touch with their > innate ability to *disbelieve* as they could be. :-) > One of the things that strikes you the strongest when > witnessing siddhis is how strongly your mind and body > wants to *NOT* believe what you are seeing and exper- > iencing. They crave rationality and predictability and > they (mind and body) really don't LIKE having to witness > these things that Just Don't Compute. > > I've seen people sit and watch someone levitate and > admit it verbally as it happens and then get up and > leave the room and then claim the next day that it never > happened, and that they had never said such a thing. > They had simply blotted the whole experience out of > their minds because their minds didn't want to deal > with it. > > The same thing would happen with a book, any book. > If someone's natural doubt about such things is trig- > gered, the fact that Yogananda wrote a book about > witnessing siddhis means nothing more than the fact > that I wrote a book about witnessing siddhis. If your > mind is doing the doubt thing, it's going to do the > doubt thing no matter who the supposed "expert" is. > Agreed. I try to avoid quoting maharishi because people frequently hear the 'recorded tape' and no longer the words, but he said it best, "Knowledge is Structured in Consciousness".
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