Arthur raised the question of whether the images in the Giant Body exercises are just bits of memories that we have picked up from here and there. This is the right question to ask. Yesterday I cited a passage from TSK p. 40 that is relevant. Here is another, from TSK p. 28, that would be good to look at in context:
We may begin the exercises by ‘imagining’, but may progress beyond that to learn to ‘know’ in new and quite incontrovertible ways. Our ‘knowing’ is usually a simple conjuring up of conventional elements, but we may now learn, instead, more about how the conventional world of appearance merges and unflods in terms of bodies, knowers, and things known.
One interesting thing about this quote is that it reminds us that the point here is not to have a certain kind of experience, but to develop a different kind of knowing, one that is made possible by an experiential inquiry into the way things manifest in space, based on challenging the usual way they manifest.
Jack