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Higher Martial Arts

Deep Mind based training leads to Higher Martial Arts. Normal superficial-mind based training can never go beyond mere speed, strength and external technique.

Universal Experience. 1985...as I drove slowly off ... another car crossed the centreline at high speed and ran head-on into my car.... While interesting in itself ... I mostly mention it because of my deep and complex experiences during the micro-seconds of the crash itself.... In the universal experience of such shocking moments of impending danger time came almost to a halt.

I became aware of the other car seemingly motionless in time and space, less than one metre in front of me. All details of the car and the driver at the wheel were clear. As I had not at that stage fastened my seatbelt and the other car was much heavier than my own, there was obvious danger. Then, the instant of impact. Many things took place � my body sank low in the seat, my right leg braced itself and my right arm lifted just in time to absorb the energy of impact as my upper body was thrown strongly into the windscreen. I sensed the immense pressure of my forearm against the windscreen while my head touched the windscreen lightly � no doubt without the forearm, my head would have punctured the screen. Then as my compressed right arm released its power I was thrown back into my seat.

During this slow-motion event my mind was clear and without emotion. My body felt like a fluid mass of elastic jelly. Long chains of thoughts took place concerning how, as these forces were so great, that surely my body would be severly damaged. Then everything went still. The other car was stopped dead in its tracks by the impact while mine was thrown back several metres. After a few seconds I began to move and check each part of my body. Unexpectedly nothing was broken, no cuts and no obvious bruises. The ambulance arrived to convey the other driver � who while wearing a seatbelt, did have cuts, bruises and broken bones � to the hospital....
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