Originally posted by Manifold_Time
Just watched Waking Life again... and that one guy at the beginning of the movie was briefly describing LD's to our protagonist, and he said he was working on 360 vision. *
The question was...is it possible to do this?? I can't even really fathom what that would be like.
Well, at that point it is not really vision anymore. You see, what happens is that one's Body Consciousness spreads out from one's body and stretches out over the surrounding territories, and one does not so much 'see' as feel everything that is all around.
In one of my sojouns to India I had a friend who would do this kind of thing during his brief restful meditations. he'd spread out over a couple of city blocks and 'see', or rather 'feel out', what was going on. Once we were sitting under the tree, waiting for the Guru to come out and give Darshan... a day to day thing, when my friend came out of his light trance, and said "come, on, this won't take long". We walked off about a half a mile to where we found a rare sight -- somebody had tied up a working ox and left it (usually they are allowed to wonder about free, and when they are required for work, somebody simply goes out to find them, but some lazy fellow, learning from the Western way of doing things, must have tied this one up to keep him handy). Anyway, its water had been knocked over, and my friend went to a nearby well and got the creature more water. Now, I had been with my friend all day long, and so I know almost to a certainty that he did not set up this situation to impress me. Indeed, to him it was just an errand, and we spoke of quite different things... gossiping like women.
We can read of quite the same kind of experience in that wonderful little book "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Yogananda... only in his version, he can spread out by the mile and never see a problem that needs mending.
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