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Is Levitation a mark of Enlightenment? (Science Article + video)From: Simon V.
Subject: General
Date/Time 2006-12-07 16:13:38
Remote IP: 24.224.149.22
MessageIn Jane Roberts' material that's exactly how building of the pyramids is said to have occured (as you say, using vibration).
This might belong more to the philosophy section, but what you're saying about enlightenment and special abilities like levitation makes me think of reading The Book of Five Rings (by the 16th century samurai, Miyamoto Musashi) as a teenager, which was a time when I was very avidly practicing both martial arts and developing meditation, which to a certain extent of course gave me advantages over others who didn't practice like that.
Reading The Book of Five Rings set up a kind of 'cognitive dissonance' in me. Here was a man who was clearly profoundly skilled, who was talking frankly about the development of 'jedi-like' powers, including 'using the void' to strike down one's opponent, an artist, a consummate tactician... Yet, was that 'enlightenment'? Sorry to sound like Andrew Cohen here. : )
Quite honestly though, this became an ongoing, kind of subconsious concern for me.
Clearly 'being able to rest in the void' and to 'use it' to make one's actions miraculously appropriate or accurate, was something that could be used simply to be a great warrior, or, probably, a black magician, or just to be a magician period, good, bad, or fuzzy. And special meditative abilities involving concentration and use of energy--same thing. So personal ambition and 'using the void' could intersect without the former vanishing into smiling, buddhistic sainthood.
Seen pragmatically or in a goal-oriented way it seems to be like that; that we can use the innate capacities through skillful development to achieve certain ends which stem from our human condition, or cultural systems of values, and the personal desires that grow in that soil. In that sphere the saying applies: There's always going to be someone with bigger muscles... And people may be really good at one or some things and piss-poor at others, or not even know certain abilities are possible, etc.
I began to see that kind of development of meditative skills as different than ALSO having a meditation that was just a listening to, a getting in tune with the deep mind, or dao, or buddha nature, source, god etc; a trusting that there is some kind of innate dynamic intelligence at the root of reality and thus of experience that can be listened to, where such listening may lead to refraining from some things, and taking leaps into others one wouldn't otherwise take, and to looking at uncomfortable truths, one's own and others' hypocrisies etc, but in a non-fixed, dynamic, never ending story kind of a way--in other words, because there ARE guidelines, standards, or there IS an intelligence, a high ground, that assesses things as more or less good or bad or 'appropriate', which can be personally experienced/accessed by anyone regardless of what condition they're in.
Well, it's a work in progress...
Simon
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