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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   In article <5qd6q9ppr74n6kr5dciqt3bei6g2nc8fbm@4ax.com>, mur@.not.   
   wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 01:02:22 -0230, David Dalton  wrote:   
   > .   
   > >In article <19bmp9hme2n7tg15gvfe17n76r9t4bnfj1@4ax.com>, mur@.not.   
   > >wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:27:57 -0230, David Dalton  wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> >In article , mur@.not.   
   > >> >wrote:   
   > >> >   
   > >> >> On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 02:56:34 -0230, David Dalton    
   > >> >> wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> >> >4.  mystic "live" sparks as opposed to dead normal static ones   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >>     Where?   
   > >> >   
   > >> >The first one was in the center of my inner right forearm.   
   > >> >I was barefoot at the time and the air wasn't very dry and   
   > >> >I was standing in the middle of the room well away from   
   > >> >any metal.   
   > >>   
   > >>     How long did it last and what did it do?   
   > >   
   > >It didn't last long, maybe half a second, and it zapped   
   > >me, but I didn't see any light.   Also it felt more   
   > >alive, like a hummingbird, than a usual static zap.   
   >   
   >     Well if a deity had something to do with it then there doesn't seem like   
   > there's much point in trying to pretend otherwise.   
      
   Since that first spark occurred when my then yoga teacher   
   was demonstrating Valakhilyasana,  I attribute the   
   mystic sparks to Valakhilya, who in B.K.S. Iyengar's   
   Light on Yoga are defined as thumb-sized entities   
   that precede the sun's chariot.  I refer to them as   
   little messengers of the sun, and consider them to   
   be energy beings and a form of angels, but not as   
   deities to me (though the sun is a deity to me).   
      
   --   
   David Dalton  dalton@nfld.com   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   "I will stand beside the ocean/and revel in  the tide/give myself   
      up to the rhythm/feel it welling up inside" (Colleen Eccleston)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)