Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
really been in a formal spiritual setting, and then I found the
teacher Osho and had been reading him for several years. I had
quit teaching and then I one day walked into the bookstore and I
came across a book, The Spiritual Teachings of Ramana
Maharshi, which basically just called out, and I bought it and
brought it home. And a couple of hours later I looked at the cover
and I just started crying profusely, I didn't even know why, just
looking in his eyes. And I began to look into the book, and
discover and read about self-inquiry and put it into practice for a
couple of weeks, at which point there was a very profound, I don't
know, I guess you would say shift in my perception of reality, what
might be called a realization, I don't know. At that point I
remained in a pretty blissful state for nearly a year, and then I
began to seek different teachers, direction as to exactly where it
occurred and that thing. And then while on that process I was
sitting in my room one day when Ramana Maharshi then came to
me in a, I guess you would call, very similar to the way you're
describing, you could call it an apparition, but this was more as it
was happening right then and there.
WIZARD: Yes.
NICK GANCITANO: The only difference was it had a very strange
overtone, and I don't verily teach or purport anything having to do
with reincarnation, 'cause we all know that these are just,
fluctuations within the mind. Yet in this particular interaction I
was taller than Ramana Maharshi, which is not consistent with my
body height now which is five foot seven. Ramana was nearly six
foot; I guess five foot ten or eleven. So at this point I was taller
and there was a woman in the room with us, and then of course he
passed on the message to me to go share this message. And so
that's really how it occurred. I didn't understand the details of it,
and the fact that bodies were different than the body that was
actually hearing it; it was actually different in terms of size than
the one that's here now. And so at first there was really no
understanding of what that was until there was a recollection after
several other interactions with him, after moving to Costa Rica for
a while and living out in the forest, I did have several interactions
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