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- From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
- Subject: Re: Possible to Obtain magic powers>?
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- References: <1992Jul28.225558.16802@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.012221.7852@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:22:21 GMT
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- jds2@po.CWRU.Edu (John D. Specht) writes:
-
- : I can't reason based on what I don't know, or don't believe in, so I don't
- : try to. Most of the 'ways' I have seen for getting at 'past life' or
- : 'higher consciousness' are about 10% inspiration, 90% imagination. I know
- : there are some serious practitioners out there, but they're not the ones
- : getting press and TV.
-
- There are several pracitioners around that have done impressive things. In
- my experience, reasoning doesn't always lead to belief, or vice versa.
- If there is just one valid experience, would that be enough?
-
- : >: How did you discover these rules? Again I would argue that what you have found
- : >: to be your truth may be not so true for those not sharing all of your
- : >: previous experiences.
- : >
- : >It is one of several common themes running through (1) NDEs, (2) regressive
- : >hypnosis sessions, and (3) most ancient religious texts.
- :
- : 1) What's an NDE? 2) Regressive hypnosis, see 10%/90% comment above. 3) Ancient
-
- NDE = Near Death Experience.
-
- : religious texts: so If I write a book that's good enough to be around in 2k
- : years, and it happens to be religious fiction (*quickflame*: Ain't it all?),
- : then would that be an 'ancient religious text' which could be accepted as
- : fact?
-
- There are many religious texts around the world that can be verified with a
- high degree of accuracy, and which tally well with our own experiences today.
- (The christian bible seems to not be one of those, however).
-
- : >: >Killing will generate a large amount of disharmonious karma. Kissing her, in
- : >: >some circumstances, may also generate disharmonious karma.
- : >:
- : >: If a man has roamed the country, doing much bodily harm for some time, and
- : >: I have an opportunity to end this destruction, I will. I consider the 'karma'
- : >: (if you want to call it that) of the world, rather than my own, and in fact,
- : >: I would benefit from that act, having made the world a better place.
- : >
- : >I don't want to get into a long-winded discussion of karma, since this
- : >more properly belongs on talk.religion.newage. Tibetans believe that
- : >*any* killing, justified or not, beings undesirable karma on the perpetrator,
- : >while Buddhism (and several other religious) do not.
- : I guess I took _Lords_of_Light_ too seriously. :)
-
- Uh, whatever *that* is...
- --
- Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@apple.com <-- preferred email address!
-
- 801/ "This is the final task I will ever give you, and it goes
- 269- on forever. Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a
-