| | I believe that it took Peter and Venito (some people who hung out with Richard the AF guy) about 10 years.
I believe that Tarin did some AF practice about 5 years ago but didn't get far with it, then took it up again after arahatship or whatever he got to and it took him 10 months. Trent ditto: 10 months.
I have been playing with it for a year even and feel close and have a pretty good VF going with very frequent PCE like experiences, but who knows how long the rest will take.
I believe that Steph Dunning got it a few weeks after Stream Entry, so it can be really fast. Trent was talking about someone who he knew maybe doing it in 2 weeks total straight off the line.
Thus, timing varies widely.
More importantly, the atemporality of the thing is a key point of the practice in some ways: that this is what is happening, that it is found here somehow, in this infinitude, and thus, when practicing and thinking of it as in some future, realize how you are experiencing those thoughts of future now in this continuously changing, aperceptive field of stuff happening on its own, as this universe experiencing itself now. Identify the emotional thing behind that question of how long it takes: expectation? doubt? fear? jealousy? self-nurturing? something else? Find that and sincerely work to resolve the tension in that such that this moment itself is seen as perfect in its own direct sensual aspects now.
Daniel |