On Sep 18, 2007, at 7:55 PM, Marek Reavis wrote:
In the waning days of the Merv wave I was teaching TM outside of
Philadelphia (Chestnut Hill/Erdenheim) and a young man, Carlos,
already a meditator, contacted me and asked me to initiate his dying,
elderly mother who was bedridden in her home somewhere in North
Philly.
I gave her the first two lectures in one and arranged to come and do
the initiation in her bedroom where she was confined. When I came
back the next day after initiation for the first day of checking she
told me that she had heard a crow call to her outside her bedroom
window (south, if I recollect correctly) during her first meditation
alone and she knew that she was to die soon, but it didn't bother her
at all. She did, however, sincerely believe that the crow was a
messenger to her of her impending death.
Nothing more than that, but the situation and the circumstances --
myself as a very young (and earnest) man spending hours alone with an
old, dying woman in the small, dim bedroom where she lay preparing
for death, all the while speaking to her about meditation and
enlightenment, and her sudden interjection of the message she
received from the call of the crow -- stuck with me. The Tibetan
auguries from the calls of the crows reminded me of that again.
Thanks for that.
Pretty far out.
I've found the text pretty accurate.
For example, it gives different "crow speech" in Sanskrit. When I
tried it out load, they would answer in kind!
