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   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   dagnabit wrote:   
      
   >you're right about the siddhis. some get them, some don't   
   >and some get limited and temporary ones. as awake as   
   >they seemed, both ramana maharshi and nisargadatta   
   >maharaj died of cancer. as did several other well known   
   >sages in India. higher awareness is no guarantee that   
   >any abilities will show up.   
      
   If you see someone walking on water, or   
   returning from having been dead and buried,   
   feel free to ignore that one, or say hello.   
      
   What's true is true, by definition.   
      
   Whether what is said to have happened, happened,   
   unless one was there at the time, it might be thought   
   to not have happened the way it was said to have.   
      
   If a so-called, individual entity, survives corporeal death   
   and is able to rematerialize, be in more than one place, or   
   do something Way-cool, then one does, can be, and may do.   
      
   Yogananda's guru manifested in such a fashion.   
      
   Skeptics might call it woo, or poo,   
   not having had any sort of such an experience.   
      
   When someone has a profound synchronistic experience,   
   the meaning of the event is significant, by definition.   
      
   Reality tends to be odd, even still.   
   At times it may seam to be at odds with its own selves.   
   As if it had more than one.   
      
   - at a time for tea   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)