I forgot about the "rocky ride" question. The answer is no, I don't recall any rocky rides. There were some very scary rides during some of the Insight Meditation retreats I went to in the '90s, and I strongly suspect that LF would provoke some of that in persons just starting meditation. Who knows? It might happen to me starting tomorrow. When it's time for the Spirit to move, it moves, and no one knows when it will come or where it will lead when it comes.
I didn't sleep very well the other night. I kept waking up thinking about the oil spill in the Gulf (I live in Jackson, Mississippi, about 170 miles from the Mississippi Gulf Coast). There is a dark, numinous quality to that whole disaster that is truly horrifying, as though a monster we have been nurturing for several hundred years is now taking on a life of its own and demonstrating to us - live on the Internet - the inevitable outcome of our technological hubris.
The downside of practices that heighten one's sensitivity to and awareness of what Teilhard called the Noosphere is that one picks up on the bad stuff as well as the good. I'm not a psychic, nor do I claim to possess any special talents of powers in that direction, but the vibes coming from the Gulf are simply overwhelming to the extent that it makes me almost sick. I hope it's not as bad as I suspect it might be.
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