The longest silence
I have started re-reading Brandon Bays’ book The Journey. Last night I read how a teacher encouraged Brandon to be still, be silent and to allow whatever emotion that came to come fully, to allow herself to be one with that emotion, not run or hide from it. What then the story out today of the man who, after a car accident, was thought to be in a coma when actually he was not. For 23 years this man was fully conscious and fully present, but unable to move, communicate or in anyway indicate that we was conscious. He used meditation to pass the time. I am curious about just what his experience was (but not enough to experience it for myself, thanks). http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/3092174/Coma-patient-conscious-for-23-years What understandings does a person come to when they spend 23 years not only in silence but also not communicating in any way.
In NLP we say that a person cannot NOT communicate. What this means is that even when we are silent we express ourselves, or ‘communicate’ by our facial expressions, our clothes and other possessions, our mannersisms and a host of other ways. But here was a man who was not able to communicate. After a time people stopped trying to communicate with him. One can only imagine the depth of thought that this man must have had.