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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
would you say that it's going to bring the emotional states to some
kind of less prevalent state, less demonstrative?
REGINA AKERS: I can only honestly and authentically speak
from my own experience. Of course I've read stuff that would give
me an idea of how to answer that question, but I never feel right in
doing that, so I won't. What I will tell you is my own experience is
that there is almost what I would describe as a stepping back that
occurs, and one of those phases of the stepping back was both still
experiencing the emotion and seeing it. But as the stepping back
has continued to occur, the constancy is taking more of the
foreground, which means that the emotion really is fading out. So
it's almost like there was a foreground and a background, and
before the human was in the foreground, and the constancy in the
beginning was so far in the background, it wasn't even noticed.
But eventually it came in, so that even while the human was still
really running in the foreground, the constancy was there. But
then it seems like there's a shifting of place where the constancy
moves more into the foreground. And then what happens is things
that obviously would have been upsetting before, the upset really
is just not arising. Or if it does arise it's very small, and very short
lived. So that's the way I experience it.
WIZARD: That's like Ramana Maharshi would use an example of
the movie and the movie screen, that the movie's always moving
on the movie screen, but the movie screen is constant. And the
constancy is our seamless sentience, and the movie is insentient in
and of itself without the screen. And so there's still a oneness with
the movie and the screen, but the primacy of being into the
forefront rather than a character in the movie, frees us from that
seduction, and inherent pains, and suffering that go along with
being a character in the movie.
TRIP: All right, Regina, we're at the end of a love fest, now we
have to get to the challenging questions here, okay.
REGINA AKERS: Wait, before you end the love fest, I want to tell
you that I do love chatting with you two, and I think you know
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