In a message dated 18/10/2004 04:11:15 GMT Daylight Time, forestofsymbols@... writes: >>>My personal advice, for what it's worth, would be to choose the path that fits you rather than try to combine two different paths.<<< That was really interesting! Perhaps the confusion comes here when you look at the *combination* of these step 1 mental exercises with the astral/soul mirror one, where indeed you do need to see things as they are - or anyway, yourself as you are. But then of course in Bardon's way you must take action and find ways to will changes, and from what mj says this would not be the case with Vipassana. So at that point the two really would seem incompatible like he says. Isn't it great how much and varied experience we have on this board? Jason [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]