Word: directer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Piecing together these experiences with the direct experience of the T.M. technique itself, the explanation given by the T.M. teachers now began to seem plausible. During the practice, my awareness did seem to pass, as was later explained to me, through "deeper, more subtle, levels of thought until thinking itself was transcended." The experience was so easy and natural, however, that I had difficulty seeing, at first, how it could be important...
...explanation offered was that repeated direct experience of these more subtle levels of the though process and, most important, direct experience of the very source of thought, consciousness itself, improve one's ability for effective action in the world. This seemed fully rational to me only when I began to think of examples such as the child's mute experiences with gravity improving his ability to move about in the world...
...technique as a completely natural way to gain the direct experience of the laws that structure our thoughts as well as the laws governing basic states of human consciousness itself. Furthermore, as I have shown with the example of the child and gravity, it is not necessary to be able to verbalize or even think about the laws in order to make effective use of them. They become structured in one's awareness so that one can automatically take full advantage of them at any time. Just like riding a bicycle, once an ability is gained on this level...
Even though in this case the laws may not all have been recognized yet by modern science, they are available in the T.M. practice just as other physical laws are available, by direct experience. Likewise, all the other unusual abilities enlivened though the T.M. program are based on the apprehension of definite laws of nature, not the contradiction of them...
...understanding of human potential that I have elaborated above has made the direct subjective means of gaining knowledge of the physical world more acceptable to scientists than it was. The careful study of the parallels between the results of materialistic science and the results of direct subjective experience may yet accomplish the long-sought synthesis of intellectual knowledge and direct experience...