Maria to Piet, Rod and Heloisa
Thank you Heloisa, Rod
and Piet for your
succinct responses, which certainly established the view behind the
working
hypothesis.
Rod raised a
question in his last reply
about "what do we "expect" IT to be like?" My question is
won't expectations only set up limitations as our expectations are
bounded by
the known?
I have been
particularly drawn to Piet's
November 11th response. The way Piet beautifully described his
experience
really appealed to me. I experimented with two observations he raised:
1)
Dissolving the being that is physically
located into what Piet described as "Cartesian coordinate system, with
lines equally spaced everywhere". When I experimented with this, I
observed that my world became one piece, where the lines between the
different
phenomena blurred. So there is less difference between the sky, the
tree, me and
my baby. In a way, they all took on a oneness in quality with less
physical
separation. I think that it is as Piet described that physical being is
no
longer the center, it just spreads out. Also, I noticed that my senses
are more
dulled in that when I look and see, it isn't so bound by my eyes, when
I touch
something, it isn't so bound by my fingers or body. Rather it is just
sensed.
This
experiment is also interesting in that
my interaction with others seem to shift a bit as well. The distinction
between
me talking with another person seems to also blur more, so there is
less
separation of me versus them. There appears to be just talking. Also,
this
tendency usually doesn't linger especially if I take an interest in the
discussion then the self focus returns.
2) I love
the way Piet describes all
phenomena as colored and textured forms of space. This really lightens
up the
world for me and really turns everything so magical and beautiful. It
transforms my world into this play-land which is wonderful.
The other
day, I noticed my mind thinking
in pictures i.e.: if I plan to go to a restaurant to eat. Then my mind
envisions the entire event. What I noticed is the mind going "out" to
the restaurant. It struck me as I noticed my mind forming an
"outside" which didn't exist. Anyhow, I thought it interesting as I
saw mind creating a separation between my inner and outer space. I am
going to
experiment with whether I can stop visualizing my ideas.
Maria