Greetings everyone! Just wanted to pass along a cool passage from the book "The Legend of Bagger Vance"....it would have made an interesting visual in the movie.
"Focus your attention on the player's will," Vance instructed Junah as Jones settled into his stance on the 14th tee. "Notice that it is not "willful". It is intentional but not willful. Do you comprehend the difference?"
"This is what Junah saw. Around Jones, encompassing his body in vibrating concentric fields, spread an aurora of energy. It seemed to be his body, but expanded, augmented. It was a field itself. Then there were other fields, an infinitude of them. You could see his will, as Bagger Vance said, his intention select the field he chose, which was the fairway and the target line. Lines of force, which were chromatic not just visually but aurally as well, vibrating like music, extended from Jones' intentionality down the fairway to the target area. But there were at least two exceptional aspects to this will and to the force lines it apprehended.
First, the force lines seemed to exist outside time, independent of it. And second, they seemed to exert an intentionality of their own.
Let me try to be precise, for this is exceptionally important.
Jones waggled now and set himself over the ball. I saw his swing before he swung it. Much like seeing Hagen's putt before it rolled. But it was not a single swing, as if predetermined; rather it was a number of swings, I would guess a hundred, two hundred, all vibrating simultaneously in Jones' field, as if in alternative futures. Possible futures. They were all recognizably Jones' swing. But some were duffs, tops, skulls, and so on. Bad swings. Now, Michael, this is the interesting part:
I could see Jones' will search among those swings, like you or I would hunt through a file drawer for a patient's chart. Jones seemed to settle. To still himself. The auroras surrounding him consolidated. The bad swings fell away, evaporating like a dream; colors intensified around the swings he had intentioned, until there were only half a dozen very closely arrayed swings remaining. As Vance had said, intelligence seemed to pour from Jones' grip, from his hands ("educated hands" no doubt). Receptive intelligence, searching the Field, drawing from it and upon it. Then Jones swung. In actuality. You could see his motion in the physical dimension track along the motions he had intentioned, not perfectly, but very close to those pre-swings that existed outside of time. I was numb, dumbstruck; I couldn't absorb it. The ball rocketed away down lines of force, with everything humming and glowing and vibrating in some keen cosmic harmony."
Vance goes on to discuss the importance and existence of your "authentic swing". Perhaps Jones in the quote above was utilizing the Manzella Matrix to sort through his "fields" and find the right swing for the shot at hand. We all have our own "authentic swing", here is to the teachers, like Brian, who help us find it!
"Focus your attention on the player's will," Vance instructed Junah as Jones settled into his stance on the 14th tee. "Notice that it is not "willful". It is intentional but not willful. Do you comprehend the difference?"
"This is what Junah saw. Around Jones, encompassing his body in vibrating concentric fields, spread an aurora of energy. It seemed to be his body, but expanded, augmented. It was a field itself. Then there were other fields, an infinitude of them. You could see his will, as Bagger Vance said, his intention select the field he chose, which was the fairway and the target line. Lines of force, which were chromatic not just visually but aurally as well, vibrating like music, extended from Jones' intentionality down the fairway to the target area. But there were at least two exceptional aspects to this will and to the force lines it apprehended.
First, the force lines seemed to exist outside time, independent of it. And second, they seemed to exert an intentionality of their own.
Let me try to be precise, for this is exceptionally important.
Jones waggled now and set himself over the ball. I saw his swing before he swung it. Much like seeing Hagen's putt before it rolled. But it was not a single swing, as if predetermined; rather it was a number of swings, I would guess a hundred, two hundred, all vibrating simultaneously in Jones' field, as if in alternative futures. Possible futures. They were all recognizably Jones' swing. But some were duffs, tops, skulls, and so on. Bad swings. Now, Michael, this is the interesting part:
I could see Jones' will search among those swings, like you or I would hunt through a file drawer for a patient's chart. Jones seemed to settle. To still himself. The auroras surrounding him consolidated. The bad swings fell away, evaporating like a dream; colors intensified around the swings he had intentioned, until there were only half a dozen very closely arrayed swings remaining. As Vance had said, intelligence seemed to pour from Jones' grip, from his hands ("educated hands" no doubt). Receptive intelligence, searching the Field, drawing from it and upon it. Then Jones swung. In actuality. You could see his motion in the physical dimension track along the motions he had intentioned, not perfectly, but very close to those pre-swings that existed outside of time. I was numb, dumbstruck; I couldn't absorb it. The ball rocketed away down lines of force, with everything humming and glowing and vibrating in some keen cosmic harmony."
Vance goes on to discuss the importance and existence of your "authentic swing". Perhaps Jones in the quote above was utilizing the Manzella Matrix to sort through his "fields" and find the right swing for the shot at hand. We all have our own "authentic swing", here is to the teachers, like Brian, who help us find it!
