Hi Kay

Thanks for your email. I've just spent 2 hours replying to your email & (guess what?) .... yes the whole lot has disappeared & seems irretrievable. Yes I know how to use the save function. I had almost finished the reply when I noticed that the "preview, submit, save draft, load draft ...

Hi Kay

Thanks for your email. I've just spent 2 hours replying to your email & (guess what?) .... yes the whole lot has disappeared & seems irretrievable. Yes I know how to use the save function. I had almost finished the reply when I noticed that the "preview, submit, save draft, load draft ...

Hi Kay

Apologies for the delay in replying due to: 1. electricity off again for 1 day in my street last week for maintenance.
2. unable to login yesterday which took 1-2 hours to fix. Was unable to request help from LU Admin as that's only possible if one is first logged in. I finally found help ...

Hi Kay

Now, can you physically grasp that image of a cup?
Can you pour tea into it?
Can you drink from it?

Is there a ‘real’ cup or just an image of a cup?
Is there an appearing mental image?
Is the content of the mental image (the cup) ‘real’?

The thoughts and mental images are real only as ...

Hi Kay

Would you do so please, as per example, so I can see that you have actually grokked AE and what looking is.


ACTIVITY, making a cup of tea:
seeing colour & shape of cup,
smelling honey
feeling warm cup (sensation)
taste of tea (taste)
hearing drinking sound (sound)
thought of drinking ...

Hi Kay,

I've been reviewing all your previous emails so I can better understand this process. I intend to write more later today (Monday).

Cheers, Phil

Hi Kay

I'm trying to email daily, but the electricity was off in my street all day yesterday for maintenance - sorry.

Report back how you go, giving some examples please.


Doing this exercise seemed straight forward. As I write this I notice:
the sensation of touching my laptop, the sound of a ...

Hi Kay

Does the colour itself suggest in any way that it is a table, or does thought overlay colour with suggestions of colour being a table?
No, the colour itself does not suggest that it is a table. eg. The colour brown may also apply to chair. So yes, thought overlays colour with suggestions ...

Hi Kay

Your email has made it simpler & clearer - thank you.

I have been doing the exercise in the way you suggested, by simply focussing on colour. That makes it much easier. I've been just looking at objects & noting the colour. That is, the only thoughts that arise are: 1. the label of the ...

PS there's some anomaly in the email just sent in the first part, related to the quote function. I unsuccessfully tried to fix it. Apologies for that.

Hi Kay

Thanks for your email.

If an apple cannot be found in actual experience, then how could taste, smell etc be that of an apple?


The answer is that thought says that taste, smell etc are that of an apple. These thought come from memory - which is more thought.

Just to make sure it is ...

Hi Kay

Thanks for your email.

If an apple cannot be found in actual experience, then how could taste, smell etc be that of an apple?


The answer is that thought says that taste, smell etc are that of an apple. These thought come from memory - which is more thought.

Just to make sure it is ...

Hi Kay

Is there really an ‘apple’ here, or only colour and a thought ABOUT ‘apple’?
Can ‘apple’ be found in actual experience?


It seems to me that the apple is not here, but only the colour & a thought about "apple".

However, is an apple actually known?


The answer is no, because all that ...

It would help me greatly if you used the quote function on each individual question, placing your answer underneath each individual question. It is surprising to what information pours through when responding to a question individually that wasn’t thought of before. Plus it keeps it easier to ...

So, I would like you to repeat the exercise and answering from actual experience (AE) only, tell me...

- How is it known that the sound is a ‘clock ticking’?
- What is it that suggests that the sound is a ‘clock ticking’?
- What is the actual experience of hearing ‘clock ticking’?

Kay


1. I ...