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   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   noname wrote:   
      
   >  I don't believe about doors opened and closed without touching them.   
      
   Not having had such an experience, it has been said   
   it is impossible to believe such things are possible.   
      
   Having had such an experience, explanations vary.   
      
   Many a guru gives credit to something other than self.   
   Their ego appears to be uninvolved at such times.   
      
   That does not preclude them from having an ego.   
   Some go off the deep end and thus it can be said   
   the siddhis can spell trouble. They are not the goal.   
      
   Synchronicities and siddhis appear to me to appear to be   
   able to shake someone out of one's normal conscious-frame   
   works of reference. They point to how reality is unscientific.   
      
   They tend to be one-time occurrences. Yet anecdotal evidence   
   suggests they occur far too often to be dismissed entirely.   
      
   Loved ones appear, after having died.   
      
   From a physicalist/materialist pov, that's impossible.   
      
   From a multi-dimensional Venn-pov, it's perfectly natural.   
   If something happened, by necessity, it happened.   
      
   How long an astral form is able to persist can be   
   as a drop in a bucket-list, sewing two-speak.   
      
   Being able to recondense out of the unmanifest and return   
   to a physical/material so-called normal realm is most unusual.   
   No matter how often it's been known to happen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)