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A review by sunsun886
Be Here Now by Ram Dass
3.0
"The next type of experience that people would frequently report was an interpersonal shift of figure and ground, where they would look at another person and see the way in which the other person was similar, rather than different from themselves. And it was as if the whole western mind-training of individual differences had been made background instead of figure, so that you'd look at another human being and say, "Here we are,". You'd see differences more as clothing, rather than as core stuff. This was a profound perceptual experience for many people."
"You finally understand the message you communicate with an other human being has nothing to do with what you say it has nothing to do with the look on the musculature of your face it's much deeper than that. Much deeper! It's the vibrations that emanate from you!"
"You can't come on because they're listening to the vibrations that hand is reaching out and sending.
And you realize that every moment you are a full statement of your being.
And you're sending out vibrations that are affecting everything around you, which in tun is affecting everything that comes back. and when you meet somebody who is caught in the world of WE and THEM and you are HIM to that person and you get caught in his mind net you are moth just intensifying one another's paranoia."
Laura Huxley has members of her seminars experience their own death psychologically,
For example:
"Have the room comfortably dark or dimly lighted.
Lie down on your bed or sofa or on the floor.
Let your body go. Imagine that the life is out of it. Do not speak or move.
Imagine that you have died: Your body is passive, lifeless, useless. Your body is discarded. Your funeral is about to take place.
Let go of your body. Let it be there as something which is no longer yours. Follow to the limit this feeling of being completely alone, abandoned, not loved- not in life, not in death. Cry scream, curse, if this is what you feel. Go to the limit of your feeling. And after you have cried and screamed and cursed, when you are empty and exhausted, stop and listen.
This is your last party. Speak to everyone there, tell them all about yourself, about your mistakes and your suffering, about your love and your longings. No longer do you need to protect yourself, no longer do you need to hide behind a wall or a suit of armor. It is your last party: you can explode, you can be miserable or pitiful, insignificant or despicable. At your funeral you can be yourself.
This is your chance: do what others have failed to do. Look at the unloved one, the miserable one. This is your chance to do an act of love toward one who has had no love. This is your chance to do justice where intentional or unintentional injustice has been committed.
This is your chance to give warmth and courage to one who feels only coldness, loneliness and death.
Let your tears flow from the very depth of you. Let your bitterness flow out with them. And when the bitterness is out, your tears will be gentle and sweet. Then take the hand of this lifeless body of yours, take it in your hands and with respect and love bring it to your lips and kiss it.
Now gently come back to your living body.
With this feeling of respect and love, come back to your living body, and let this feeling remain with you, inside of you. Let it spread to each nerve, to each muscle, along every vein and artery. Let this feeling of respect and love spread inside you, throughout your entire organism, and then let it spread out around you in everything, object or animal or human, that is part of your life. Feel this feeling of love and respect circulating inside you with the force of life itself; let it be in your blood, in the air you breathe. Feel it- accept it - give it."
"You finally understand the message you communicate with an other human being has nothing to do with what you say it has nothing to do with the look on the musculature of your face it's much deeper than that. Much deeper! It's the vibrations that emanate from you!"
"You can't come on because they're listening to the vibrations that hand is reaching out and sending.
And you realize that every moment you are a full statement of your being.
And you're sending out vibrations that are affecting everything around you, which in tun is affecting everything that comes back. and when you meet somebody who is caught in the world of WE and THEM and you are HIM to that person and you get caught in his mind net you are moth just intensifying one another's paranoia."
Laura Huxley has members of her seminars experience their own death psychologically,
For example:
"Have the room comfortably dark or dimly lighted.
Lie down on your bed or sofa or on the floor.
Let your body go. Imagine that the life is out of it. Do not speak or move.
Imagine that you have died: Your body is passive, lifeless, useless. Your body is discarded. Your funeral is about to take place.
Let go of your body. Let it be there as something which is no longer yours. Follow to the limit this feeling of being completely alone, abandoned, not loved- not in life, not in death. Cry scream, curse, if this is what you feel. Go to the limit of your feeling. And after you have cried and screamed and cursed, when you are empty and exhausted, stop and listen.
This is your last party. Speak to everyone there, tell them all about yourself, about your mistakes and your suffering, about your love and your longings. No longer do you need to protect yourself, no longer do you need to hide behind a wall or a suit of armor. It is your last party: you can explode, you can be miserable or pitiful, insignificant or despicable. At your funeral you can be yourself.
This is your chance: do what others have failed to do. Look at the unloved one, the miserable one. This is your chance to do an act of love toward one who has had no love. This is your chance to do justice where intentional or unintentional injustice has been committed.
This is your chance to give warmth and courage to one who feels only coldness, loneliness and death.
Let your tears flow from the very depth of you. Let your bitterness flow out with them. And when the bitterness is out, your tears will be gentle and sweet. Then take the hand of this lifeless body of yours, take it in your hands and with respect and love bring it to your lips and kiss it.
Now gently come back to your living body.
With this feeling of respect and love, come back to your living body, and let this feeling remain with you, inside of you. Let it spread to each nerve, to each muscle, along every vein and artery. Let this feeling of respect and love spread inside you, throughout your entire organism, and then let it spread out around you in everything, object or animal or human, that is part of your life. Feel this feeling of love and respect circulating inside you with the force of life itself; let it be in your blood, in the air you breathe. Feel it- accept it - give it."