> Eugene said:
> >
> >> I'd vote for the reality of the first six (he did have the
> metaprogramming
> >> circuit as number six rather than seven, didn't he?), but I'm pretty
> >> dubious about the others, except in the most limited sense. In many
> >> respects I preferred John Lilly's model (in 'Center of the Cyclone')
> for
> >> the region beyond the fourth circuit.
> >>
> >I hope I am not commiting St. bovicide when questioning claims as to
> the
> >reality of existance of such circuits, their analyzability via
> >introspection and as of their mutability by any rituals.
> >
> >Besides of anecdotal, do we have any other evidence?
>
> Questioning the validity of such circuits is a *healthy* thing to do.
> In the end they are all models of very wild and strange stuff people
> have experienced. Beyond pure statistical improbability of my
> experiences being a conicidence I have experienced "teleportation" while
> asleep that correlated exactly with what I saw hours later in the waking
> world. The experience was so exact that I have since kept an open mind
> regarding the possible existence of a Circuit 8.
That would be clairvoyance and/or precognition.
I used to drive a car that made me thankful for telekinesis at every
stop light -- mind power was MUCH more effective than its brakes.
:-)
>
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