Guest guest Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 P: Below is an account about how " IT " felt. Is there a reason to think it was anything more than feelings in the left parietal lobe? That is a decision for your brain to make, and all feelings and decisions occur to a brain. BILL: Here is a portion from an account by a man who was profoundly transformed during an interview with Ramana Maharshi. I think you will relate: The wonder of it was that my awareness was not in the body — my awareness was over the whole of the space filled with that Nectar. The whole Universe was Nectar. I call it Nectar; you could call it Ether, something very subtle, attached with awareness at every point. And everything living and non-living was like snow flakes floating in that ocean of Nectar. If you ask me what my body was, my body was the whole universe of Nectar, attached to awareness at every point. No particular association from the one body from where it started — this body was like every other body. By morning everything subsided, though the underlying experience remained. I was totally unconscious of my body. I was moving around like an automaton, unaware of my body. In that state I returned to Madurai where I was a physics professor. This was during a Christmas vacation. For the next two weeks I remained in that state. With the opening of college I was scheduled to give lectures and my relatives became rather concerned, for my behaviour had changed considerably. etc.... the entire account is here: http://www.realization.org/page/doc1/doc109a.htm Very interesting to go back and look at that account, particularly: something very subtle, attached with awareness at every point. And everything living and non-living was like snow flakes floating in that ocean of Nectar. that is what it is like... like awareness is filled with little " sparklies " ... that what is the supposed " content " of awareness is unimportant... that there is simply everywhere a sparkling vitality. It is what I have been trying to say with the term *Vibrant Now*. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 Nisargadatta , Pete S <pedsie5 wrote: > > P: Below is an account about how " IT " > felt. Is there a reason to think it was > anything more than feelings in the left > parietal lobe? That is a decision for your > brain to make, and all feelings and decisions > occur to a brain. I posted that for Arvind to show him that feeling so " in another world " is not unusual when there is a profound " shift " . That is all. The post is not about glorifying anything. Bill > > BILL: Here is a portion from an account by a man > who was profoundly transformed during an > interview with Ramana Maharshi. I think > you will relate: > > The wonder of it was that my awareness was not in the > body — my awareness was over the whole of the space > filled with that Nectar. The whole Universe was Nectar. I > call it Nectar; you could call it Ether, something very > subtle, attached with awareness at every point. And > everything living and non-living was like snow flakes > floating in that ocean of Nectar. > > If you ask me what my body was, my body was the whole > universe of Nectar, attached to awareness at every point. > No particular association from the one body from where it > started — this body was like every other body. > > By morning everything subsided, though the underlying > experience remained. I was totally unconscious of my > body. I was moving around like an automaton, unaware of > my body. In that state I returned to Madurai where I was > a physics professor. > > This was during a Christmas vacation. For the next two > weeks I remained in that state. With the opening of > college I was scheduled to give lectures and my relatives > became rather concerned, for my behaviour had changed > considerably. > > etc.... the entire account is here: > http://www.realization.org/page/doc1/doc109a.htm > > Very interesting to go back and look at that account, > particularly: > > something very subtle, attached with awareness at > every point. And everything living and non-living > was like snow flakes floating in that ocean of > Nectar. > > that is what it is like... like awareness is filled > with little " sparklies " ... that what is the supposed > " content " of awareness is unimportant... that there > is simply everywhere a sparkling vitality. > > It is what I have been trying to say with the term > *Vibrant Now*. > > Bill > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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