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It turns out that almost everybody has the inherent ability to see inner light and hear inner sound. Moreover, almost everybody has the capacity to have an out-of-body experience and behold wondrous inner visions. You don't need to go to an Indian guru to have such experiences indeed, you don't need to go anywhere at all.
But that's not what Kirpal Singh and his successors told their vast following. Instead, unsuspecting seekers(who number in the thousands) were taught to believe that it was the guru himself, not the disciple, who was orchestrating the elevation of the soul into higher regions. But Kirpal and crew were not being completely forthcoming about the mechanism which governs access to such amazing sights and sounds. That mechanism is the brain and that three pounds of glorious tissue is the lot of all humans - David C Lane, quoted from below.
Here is an item to supplement what we are learning about trance induction.
An article titled 'The Kirpal Statistic' written by David C Lane.
[www.ex-premie.org]
Lane, while teaching high school classes, discovered to his own amazement that he
could easily create a setting in which many of the students self generated
inner experiences.