Re: [BardonPraxis] What Is a Thought?

[Jwingate2002@...]

In a message dated 09/10/2004 12:30:43 GMT Daylight Time, 
anthony@... writes:

>>In fact I 
count only memories I pursue or sentences I let complete (and some of 
them are pretty fast) as thoughts. Is this acceptable<<


I don't know if you want to focus, as you are, on thoughts about the object 
of the exercise - commands you are giving to your mind as it were. Just think 
normally. Those 'random flashes' that are coming up *are* your thoughts! 
Start to watch them go by and figure out how they rise and fall. Wait until 
exercise 3 to stop them altogether, just slow them down, there might be several 
layers. Rawn's correpondence excerpts (on abardoncompanion.com) has a really 
good recollection by him of what happened when he did it. That was the article 
that made me realise what it was about.

I was like you at the beginning with all the talking to myself! But keep 
going and something else will probably happen. You want as natural a train of 
thought as possible, and to look at the flow of it going past. But what does 
everyone else think? Jason


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