' There may be one category of experience in which this is not the case: a genuine connection with the ultimate.'That's what I figured the samadhi thing to be... and I still say it isn't worth persuing! I should add that in the end, the techniques didn't matter at all. It was just a matter of sitting quiet and waiting really - oops, I shouldn't give clues like that away - there goes the guru career!
Remember M says it is really simple? It is! So simple you don't need him, you don't need K, you don't need to mess with your eyeballs!