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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
exercise of sharing to others. So that me may be seen by others as
such.
WIZARD: Yes, the me-storyline borrows its sentience from Now.
ALBERT NAHMANI: Yes.
TRIP: I'm just going to jump around here to things that caught my
attention in reading your book. One of them was that you said,
"People do tend to look to a spiritual teacher in human form", but
you say that teachers come in all forms, and it came to you in
many different forms. So I thought it would be interesting for you
to share some of those forms that came along during your spiritual
education.
ALBERT NAHMANI: And they still do [Laughs]. Well, I was
going to write a little bio, a novel, for my grandchildren, and the
first story that I started with was, I called it the birdie, little birdie.
And I must have been like four, or five. The memory is that I am
outside in the street; this is like a little Jewish ghetto street in Fez.
And I seemed to have this little birdie attached with a string
attached to my little finger. A few boys were playing around and
suddenly a cat comes in (I'm making the story short) and snatches
the little birdie in its mouth, and runs away with it. At that
moment it seemed to have been an out of body experience where
I'm watching this whole scene of the cat preparing itself to take
over, and jumping and snatching the birdie. And everything
seems up there silent and peaceful, watching this scene unfold.
And I know psychologists will probably call that. They call that a
split of a kind when in trauma, and that tends to happen, and it's
true probably if you want to name it as such. But when I look back
in my life, this is like one meaning, example, of so many that
started in my mind the question of who or what am I. Because at
that moment one realizes there is another dimension prior, and
you feel there is something witnessing, and also you feel that in
spite of the trauma, this witnessing is peaceful. Of course I'm four
or five years old, I didn't ask myself all these questions. But down
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