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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   In article ,   
    David Dalton  wrote:   
      
   > I define shaktipat as proximity-induced kundalini awakening.   
   > It is usually spontaneous and occurs when a novice is   
   > near a more spiritually advanced person, such that the   
   > novice receives the shaktipat from that more advanced   
   > person.   
   >   
   > Now I say it is usually spontaneous, but is it sometimes   
   > possible for the more spiritually advanced person to   
   > will the shaktipat to occur?   If so, how would one go   
   > about it?   I have attempted to do so by remembering   
   > when I received shaktipat and imagining it relaying   
   > on from me to another person, but that has not seemed   
   > to work, at least not yet.  (But my current yoga   
   > fitness is a good bit less than it was at the end   
   > of 1995, so perhaps I will have more luck when I   
   > resume regular practice of asanas and pranayama.)   
      
   I expect to have more luck when I come out of the   
   low years, which I claim are similar to the ascetic   
   years of the Buddha and the years of exile of Rama.   
      
   --   
   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)   
   "But once there was a darkness, deep and endless night   
   You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light" (Sarah McLachlan)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)