From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 01:19:01 MDT
Alex Ramonsky wrote:
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> Brian D Williams wrote:
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>> I have thought at various times over the years that I understood
>> basically what life was all about, but I still always had a certain
>> gnawing uncertainty.
>>
>> After many years of this I realized I was on the wrong path and
>> started changing my life around. One of the things I did was start
>> formal meditation. After nearly a year of daily sitting I had a
>> very profound experience in which I literally seemed to have "woken
>> up" as if I previously had been sleepwalking. Nothing has been the
>> same ever since. I've had teachers from two different major
>> disciplines confirm that this experience is genuine.
>>
> Sounds like a temporal lobe experience to me...tasty, very tasty...even
> tastier than Oreos...Isn't it fun living in a brain that can experience
> such stuff?
But does it explain anything (take your pick of "it")?
> I've had something similar but I don't think quite the same...it was
> more as if I woke up and someone had reprogrammed me in the night and I
> could suddenly think in more efficient ways. The first time this
> happened (Using meditation as a trigger) I called the resulting person
> 'Ramonsky 2', because it really did feel that different. Using
> biofeedback as a trigger I'm currently 'Ramonsky 4'.
> Wouldn't you have just loved to see a brain scan of yourself before and
> after?
Yeah. I have had samadhi experiences within waking dreams a
couple of times. The last one was so powerful it took me quite
a long time to not consider it more important than anything and
everything else.
- samantha
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