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¹ From his official biography, while in early manuscript, translated from A Pathway to the Self, written in Gujarati by Babu Parekh (recent publication, “As told by Anandi Ma,” with the title This House Is on Fire in August 2004): “His devotion to Hanuman was not new. He had developed a relationship with him from early childhood. Happening to see an idol or picture of Hanuman anywhere, it was hard for him to leave that place. He would gaze at it for a long time without even blinking his eyes.” An observer: “I see Lord Hanuman in Dhyanyogi’s back” (pp. 17, 132). Hanuman could “swell himself to the size of a mountain or reduce himself to the size of a man’s thumb” (Tales of Hanuman comic book).

(describing a light body meditation in early 2001), from Toward a Philosophy of Perception, (reprinted from Margaret A. Harrell, “The Gift of the Natural Mind: A Consciousness,” Exceptional Human Experience, 2004, pp. 169-170):

Behind that analysis, or insight, is an experience that took some time to crystallize into words. During a couple of the meditations at the two-day seminar I received two “messages.” But one of the most extraordinary things, to me, was that two faces (those of Milton Klonsky and Shri Dhyanyogi, both no longer “in the body”) were involved. That is not customary with me. In my earlier [Exceptional Human Experience, or EHE] Newsletter report, while knowing that “the experience” was the important thing and the key, I didn’t have the frames of reference to recount it in that way. At that time I focused on the first message (from Milton Klonsky)—the implication of human potential being in fact an essential human contribution. Each individual contribution, taken as a whole, was a resource of the planet vital to Earth’s survival, including the implication of there existing such things as repositories of information involving the individual and the planet. I went even so far as to speculate on some sort of “symmetry”—or a dynamics turning on relationship or ratio—between problems and the potential for their solution, some sort of mathematics of the mass of problems relative to the solution possibility (revealing a dynamics of human potential involved in containing and combining information).

     The second “message” (given by Shri Dhyanyogi)—not yet in focus in February 2001, more faraway-seeming—was understandable and extremely revealing after 9/11. I will develop it only slightly here, to the extent that I can connect it to the point in the first meditation, summarized above...

     First, I knew the experience could go in many directions, that is, there were many possibilities for uncloaking its implications. I had experienced it before it was “stamped” by the mark of any one direction (in quantum physics, this “stamping” happens in “collapsing a wave function,” also called “reduction of the wave function”). It is perhaps difficult (usually considered impossible) to report an experience as multidirectional, or even locally noncentric—composed as this one was simply of energy and impulse, before it is “definitively” observed and thereafter confined in its most identifiable focus. I knew quite well that it could go in one direction for one observer, another for another observer—and do this through time, in increasing variety, if initially presented while it contained its potential for defining itself differently for different readers. The importance of this was that from such a position although still holding the compacted nucleus of the message, it is accessible through any number of future potential directions. This means it has the energy of all possibilities still intact. It is equally specific, to view the “frothy wholeness,” as would be a more narrow single vein, and it has a reason to be perceived by an appropriate individual in just that particular vein or amplitude. As time passed this was one of the points I returned to as part of the quality of the experience—as opposed to its explicit message. As such, it was important to me to describe the dynamics that such a particular experience of receiving information brought with it: the special dynamics by which a kinetic sense of wholeness comprised all the information, of facts, sensations and insights. And, it was as important as the multiple meanings themselves. Like an uncollapsed wave function (“state vector”) in quantum physics, the material had not yet been “observed” or singled out by consciousness by exclusively favoring particular perspectives of its meanings. On the other hand, one could almost call it a “multiply collapsed wave function,” but without withdrawing any energy from any direction—which as I understand it is a contradiction in terms. It was like a kaleidoscope that refused to stop long at a viewpoint. The trick was to not bring down any “weight” of observation, though taking in the full impact. Such observing, I believe, requires following the “frequency” of the whole.

     For me, the peak of the experience was that it still had no sustained partiality of viewpoint or direction, even though it disclosed many directions inherent in it one after the other—or one “inside” the other—an inevitable continuous formation of self-refueling, recycling, multiply individualized perceptions taken in snapshots of the Whole, each self-evident, once beginning with an eruption of awareness. As if in a kind of spinning stillness, new bits of organization would materialize in total clarity. Later I found another word for this, the Zen Buddhist satori, or sudden flash of enlightenment which reveals the “nature and wisdom of mind” and moves the person who reaches this state into the practice, from then on, of “living in the present.”