I was reading
Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, which is the autobiography of Nobel laureate Kary Mullis. For those unfamiliar, Mullis was one of those rare figures: a first-rate scientist (won a Nobel prize for inventing PCR), who was also extremely interested in and open to esoteric ideas.
In the book, Mullis describes a curious encounter he had with a woman (passage reproduced below, with the parts of interest in
bold).
I had been hanging out at the Buttercup Bakery—not a likely place for me to come across a quickie romance because Cynthia and I used to work there together. But for some reason I was drawn to it. I was sitting at a table with two friends when Katherine O’Keefe came through the door. She walked directly to my table. I didn’t know her, but our eyes connected, and within five minutes we were walking out the door.
She followed me home. We talked briefly about nothing much in the kitchen and then made love before I knew anything more than her name.
She looked deep into my eyes and did something to me with her mind that was ecstatic. It seemed to me as if a little tentacle had reached into my mid-brain and tickled my hypothalamus.
I asked her what the hell she had done to me. She replied, “You’ve been playing with your mind, but you don’t know anything yet. No one has ever properly taught you.”
I was excited. “Will you show me how to do that? What you did?”
“You already know. You just need to practice.”
Mullis doesn't go into any further details on this, whether she taught him or not, etc. But to me this seems like a magickal/high-concentration/shaktipat/jhanic act, doesn't it?
So I have two questions:
- What is the the "thing" that the woman did to Kary Mullis?
- Is this ability innate, or can it be trained? If it can be trained: how?
