Neville recalls that, many years before this lecture, an inner voice told him he does not move in waking any more than he moves on his bed in sleep -- that all apparent motion, waking or dreaming, is only a movement in mind. He notes the paradox that this came to him on a day he had travel plans taking him out of his New York apartment, using it to argue that even literal travel is, at the deepest level, only motion within consciousness.
Date (happened)
between September 1922 and April 1957
unresolved
- before 1962
- between September 1922 and April 1957
Place
Persons
Told / reported
- 27 March 1964
- 27 March 1964
Sources
Source
Attested in 1 lecture
| Date | Lecture or book | Telling | Passage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964-03-27 [exact/certain/final] | Life Through Death | So when I was told, many years ago, you do not move in waking any more than you move on your bed in sleep—it’s all a movement in mind. You only believe you moved in waking as you believe you move in sleep. Well, then I woke, and how could I understand when that very day I had dates that would take me out of my apartment in New York City? I was on the road traveling around, and yet here is the voice telling me, “You do not move in waking any more than you move on your bed in sleep.” That I do not move on my bed in sleep that’s obvious. I get up in the morning, I’m still in the bed after an… | 546304 |