Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00219)

Mauri,
Thanks for your reply and comments. One correction, the Khotanese text I 
Pasted is not my translation, it was the 8th Ch. Book of Zambasta translated by 
Scholars which is pretty unique as it represents a presence of Buddhism of 
the Takla Makan area and also arian advocacy and culture of an ancient time.

>> And so I think I might be 
saying that, occasionally, things might 
be seen to happen that might seem 
strange.<<

Lol, that is a definite,real "strangeness" is having a confrontation with 
fluid reality rather than the nice reliable stable consistant reality of 
normative existance. A predictable stable reality of perceptions is a primary 
prerequisite for consciousness at our common experiential level collectively. 
Having that stable context become fluid as happened to our experience in the 
Brian Scott Case in more than a few incidences served to teach me at least that 
there can be conscious aware non-drug induced alternate reality and 
interactions. More over it caused me to constantly remind myself to keep my shoes "nailed" 
to the ground and to be firmly set in a role as a dispassionate observer as 
we never knew when strangeness would occur during that period. Science is 
designed to have predictability by the Laws of Science ,through that, stable 
consistant reality is maintenanced without radical sudden departures. Much of the 
reaction to unknowns that present is a strong effort to be consistant with the 
"agreements" of acceptable collective explanations of all that is about us, 
from the individual dynamic to the dynamic of the whole. Unmocking reality out 
of the accepted "gradient" usually does not produce peer slaps on the back by 
other Scientists.

John





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