Comments on: Epiphanies are stoopid.

By: On being creative (or, the joy of grevilleas) « Learnings and Lovings

On being creative (or, the joy of grevilleas) « Learnings and Lovings — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:40:04 +0000

[...] not used to thinking about myself in a creative way. Especially because most of my epiphanies sound completely ridiculous (The fear is mostly stupid. OMG PEOPLE! THE FEAR IS MOSTLY [...]

By: Level Zero Shivanaut | Qrystal.name

Level Zero Shivanaut | Qrystal.name — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:32:48 +0000

[...] I want to make sure they continue! Especially since I encountered another article there about how epiphanies can really seem like obvious, “stoopid” things sometimes, but it explains how the experience of Shiva Nata epiphanies is so visceral, it’s [...]

By: Guest Post: Playing « Collidescopes Blog

Guest Post: Playing « Collidescopes Blog — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 19:02:01 +0000

[...] can’t explain it better than that. This is the part again about how epiphanies are stupid because you can’t put them into [...]

By: The Check-in that Isn’t Quite | my seed house

The Check-in that Isn’t Quite | my seed house — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:05:49 +0000

[...] This is one of those famous (and sometimes famously obvious) moments of “bing!” where the neural circuits [...]

By: Smoochie Anderson

Smoochie Anderson — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:27:46 +0000

[...] of the more amazing things about Shiva Nata is the regularity of these epiphanies. And one of the more frustrating things is that it’s [...]

By: Of course this hero’s saga stuff is hard. It’s supposed to be.

Of course this hero’s saga stuff is hard. It’s supposed to be. — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:40:56 +0000

[...] This is all exactly the kind of absurdly obvious epiphany I’m always having from Dance of Shiva. [...]

By: Lilly

Lilly — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:16:49 +0000

My latest ‘epiphany’, I took the DVD to the Oregon coast on a birthday trip with my husband last weekend. It was a nice relaxing trip, and Shiva Nata session. I came away from that trip with the insight that was ok to come into the light, and things aren’t nearly as hard/difficult/convoluted as I make them out to be. Very simple, yet also fairly life changing!

Thank you…

By: Spike

Spike — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:00:35 +0000

Yeah, epiphanies are stoopid–except to the person having them.

For me it was like living in a world where objects of different mass fall at different speeds. Bricks fall faster than feathers (even in a vacuum) because, well, duh! Bricks are heavier.

And then BING! the epiphany happened, and my world was totally re-ordered. So I ran around dropping apples and airplanes; bananas and bowling balls; cucumbers and cranes, all the while buttonholing passers-by and screaming “Look! Look!! They all fall AT THE SAME SPEED!!!”

And the nice people looked at me like I was a nut, patted me on the head, and said, “Of course they do.” And then they walked away, shaking their heads at me.

However, one day one of them will realize that the world is NOT flat. And that person will probably grab me by the lapels, insisting how amazing it is that (a) we can’t fall off the edge, (b) there are all kinds of shortcuts we can take now, and (c) how this puts seasons and all kinds of other phenomenae into perspective.

I hope I can be the kind of person I wish I was when this happens.
Spike´s last blog ..50,017 You Can’t See Plus 55 You Can

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:26:28 +0000

Yes! When I get a wave of truth over my body, or those fully formed bings that flash from the back of my head to the front w/o warning, my rational brain says, “yeah, that’s crazy” – even though it knows the truth and wants badly to believe it. That brain is scared to leave the status quo and grow; it seems to say that where we are right now is good enough, don’t want more, don’t dream or do anything to screw it all up. It would rather have the familiar pain of Now than face an unknown that feels right. Even when I ignore my body, it’s the most rational brain I have – but it’s hard to put your trust in that when it goes against everything you’ve been taught about rationality, pro & con lists, and oh yeah the economy is bad, etc. It’s hard enough to explain that “right feeling” to yourself. So I’m learning to stop explaining and just take little steps that outfox the rational brain.

By: Willie Hewes

Willie Hewes — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:44:56 +0000

Just another comment saying: yes, this.

It seems like some really important, profound things just don’t translate into words. That’s why the thinking brain rolls its eyes at it, it’s not the epiphany that’s stoopid, it’s the translation.

Well, maybe. That’s just what I’m thinking now, but I studied language in uni, that might have something to do with it.