tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post5912351105623584933..comments2023-09-15T05:24:29.125-07:00Comments on What lies within: What a truly magical day.......Margaret Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17385395565359693331noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post-86330624589063947192008-11-09T12:58:00.000-08:002008-11-09T12:58:00.000-08:00Hello HarryThank you very much for taking the time...Hello Harry<BR/><BR/>Thank you very much for taking the time to comment. I was very interested in reading that you have received Shaktipat initiation. I also did in India in 1997 although at the time I did not realise what it was.<BR/><BR/>I resonated with what you said about being 'an ordinary person who has had extraordinary experiences' as this is how I also see myself. But it is this ordinariness that can inspire others. <BR/><BR/>I sense from your comment that you have also experienced the rising of the energy but it appears to have been more intense than what I experienced. There is a danger in the unprepared body and mind that the force of the energy when it rises prematurely can shatter the consciousness so integrating the experience into normal everyday life proves difficult.<BR/><BR/>What helped me enormously was understanding the importance of the Witness (concept in Buddhism). In the early stages of my experience I had very strange thoughts and behaviour, bordering on mania. During these episodes I maintained the attitude of the Witness watching all of this as though it was happening to someone else (if that makes sense). By watching it like an observer and not getting involved and attached the experience gradually integrates itself back into the consciousness and then into daily life.<BR/><BR/>But this takes time and my message to you is to be patient. You don't say when your, what I understand to be a spiritual emergency episode happened but it takes time for it to integrate into the consciousness. So be gentle and patient with yourself.<BR/><BR/>The ISBN number for my book 'Journey to Self' is 978-0-9559419-1-7. It will be available from Amazon within the next 2 weeks. I will welcome questions from you at anytime. <BR/><BR/>All the best<BR/><BR/>MargaretMargaret Dempseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17385395565359693331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post-36236691753676498912008-11-09T08:06:00.000-08:002008-11-09T08:06:00.000-08:00I agree about 'feeling places out', I can ...I agree about 'feeling places out', I can usually tell if I'm going to have a negative or positive experience with a place or person.<BR/><BR/>It does take courage to walk into a shop & offer your work for sale, especially something personal like a book which is full of your personal energy & in <BR/><BR/>many ways a window into your mind, the way you think & feel & your experiences about your spiritual journey.<BR/><BR/>I enjoyed hearing about your wet Saturday walking around London, going into metaphysical bookshops, having a coffee somewhere, taking the tube etc. It's <BR/><BR/>something I have done many times in the past. I was born in London & spent most of my life there. I live in Yorkshire now, I don't enjoy it. I don't feel at <BR/><BR/>home here. My gut feeling about this area was spot on, but I had to move for personal reasons. I hoped my feelings were just nerves but as usual my intuition <BR/><BR/>proved correct (I'm a man incidentally) I miss London a lot, I would like to move back. I have been on a spiritual journey since I became a vegetarian in <BR/><BR/>1975. Everything started to change after this.<BR/><BR/>I have had many strange experiences I recieved 'Shaktipat' in 1979. In many ways it has not helped me live a happy life in this world.'I'm just ordinary', <BR/><BR/>but the experiences I have had have made me very extraordinary in as much as I have never met anyone else who has had them. Despite these powerful <BR/><BR/>experiences I do not feel liberated by them. Maybe it's my karma unravelling - maybe all of it is to soften up my ego & then finally crack it one day. How do <BR/><BR/>you explain to people about 'energy' & 'sound' exploding up your spine & feeling as if your head has exploded in the process & connected you with the <BR/><BR/>universe? <BR/><BR/>I haven't read you book Margaret, but I will find out about ordering it from somewhere I feel sure I would enjoy it & I might email you & ask you a few <BR/><BR/>questions at a later date.<BR/><BR/>Many thanks<BR/><BR/>HarryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com