Comments on: Collision with the Infinite http://www.vincenthorn.com/2005/05/09/collision-with-the-infinite/ Buddhist Geek, Teacher, Explorer Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:43:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Vince http://www.vincenthorn.com/2005/05/09/collision-with-the-infinite/comment-page-1/#comment-237 Vince Thu, 12 May 2005 19:18:00 +0000 http://www.vincenthorn.com/?p=474#comment-237 Nagarjuna, Thanks for your comments! I had no idea that Suzanne passed away from a brain tumor... As far as whether or not that impacted her experience, I have no idea. It seems unlikely that she had the tumor for 15 years prior to death (when she had her initial experience), but who knows... I'm certainly not an expert on brain tumors, and I don't have if they have any link to mystical experiences, although <a HREF="http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=1800261897" rel="nofollow">John Travolta</a> would have us think so... Nagarjuna,

Thanks for your comments! I had no idea that Suzanne passed away from a brain tumor… As far as whether or not that impacted her experience, I have no idea. It seems unlikely that she had the tumor for 15 years prior to death (when she had her initial experience), but who knows… I’m certainly not an expert on brain tumors, and I don’t have if they have any link to mystical experiences, although John Travolta would have us think so…

]]> By: Nagarjuna http://www.vincenthorn.com/2005/05/09/collision-with-the-infinite/comment-page-1/#comment-236 Nagarjuna Thu, 12 May 2005 18:52:00 +0000 http://www.vincenthorn.com/?p=474#comment-236 I had never heard of Suzanne Segal or her experience until reading your blog entry. It was fascinating. Thank you for sharing it with us. If she experienced Witness consciousness in the beginning, it was a different kind of experience of it than any I've ever read about or heard of before. When her Witness consciousness collapsed into what seems to have been permanent non-dual awareness, I was reminded of Alan Watts' description of 'nirvana': "Nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive. It feels as if everything were myself or as if everything were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that I make them. They arise of themselves in relation to circumstances." I wonder if there was any relation between Suzanne's brain tumor that ultimately killed her and her experience. Was her experience a result of a very slow growing tumor or was the tumor entirely incidental to her experience? What's more, I wonder if her non-dual consciousness allowed her to meet her death with complete equanimity. I had never heard of Suzanne Segal or her experience until reading your blog entry. It was fascinating. Thank you for sharing it with us. If she experienced Witness consciousness in the beginning, it was a different kind of experience of it than any I’ve ever read about or heard of before.

When her Witness consciousness collapsed into what seems to have been permanent non-dual awareness, I was reminded of Alan Watts’ description of ‘nirvana’:

“Nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive. It feels as if everything were myself or as if everything were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that I make them. They arise of themselves in relation to circumstances.”

I wonder if there was any relation between Suzanne’s brain tumor that ultimately killed her and her experience. Was her experience a result of a very slow growing tumor or was the tumor entirely incidental to her experience? What’s more, I wonder if her non-dual consciousness allowed her to meet her death with complete equanimity.

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