giving up on 2012 (you guys win)

[Meerie]

readjustment is excellent! I think sometimes we have to work at seeing how everyone is right. Between the 'sudden' and 'gradual' camps... Why can't it be both? Maybe that's why it was never plainly determined.

Funny, that reminds me of the excellent video of Alan Watts on meditation, that Namaste linked... he goes into detail about meditation, and he makes an analogy about sounds... there are short abrupt sounds, like the toc toc sound of a clock, and more elongated sounds, like if you chant "Om" and let it slowly fade away. And when the om sound vanishes you start hearing the ambient noises and he used this analogy to say "all is one", it all blends into one in the end.
It reminded me of the sudden- versus gradual harvest debate.
I think it can be both, definitely. All is one