Contributed by Bob Bays
I am prompted by the discussion of Suzanne
Segal to introduce the list
to a fascinating person whose experience is in some ways
analogous to
hers:
Kay is a native of Mississippi, complete with the ultimate
Southern
drawl, brought up as a thoroughgoing fundamentalist Southern
Baptist
with all the trimmings.
Well, she gave up religion (completely!) at a relatively early
age, and
went on to become a highly successful business woman., enjoying
all the
perks that go with such a life.
Then, one evening in early 1984, while she was driving across the
Mississippi River, a voice inside her head asked, "Is this
all there
is?".
A couple of weeks later an acquaintance inexplicably gave her a
copy of
one of Joel Goldsmith's books, and while reading it she came
across the
statement "'I' is God," whereupon everything simply
exploded - it
happened to be February 14, and she subsequently called the event
the
"Valentine's Day Explosion."
Anyway, it took her four years to sort it out - she went through
much
the same ordeal as Suzanne Segal. But Suzanne had been exposed to
TM;
Kay had absolutely NO preparation!
In 1989 she finally came into a full understanding of what had
happened,
and since then, though she has written nothing, she has held
satsangs
with small groups and given some weekend retreats from time to
time, the
cost of which is room and board, if any - nothing more. She does
have
available quite a collection of audio and video tapes, the
catalogs of
which are available from Debra Tru who can be reached at Cygnet202@aol.com
Just the titles are interesting, even if you don't buy one!
But the video on which she tells her own
story is engrossing - it's called "Kay Speaks About February
14, 1984."
Having now read some of the scriptures, Kay's comment is the same
as
Ramana's: "They confirm my experience." She lives alone
on a lovely
spread about fifty miles north of Atlanta.
I wonder how many other such solitary sages are out there!
OM shantih,
Bob
Kay has a last name, but she never uses it, and although I
once knew it,
I have forgotten! It was the name of her husband, whom she lelt
not
long after the "explosion."
She doesn't have a web site either. As a matter of fact she
advertises
not at all, except to send to her mailing list notices of
satsangs and
retrests. It may interest you to know that all her correspondence
is
addressed "To the Rest of Myself."
OM shantih,
Bob