[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-03 Thread azgrey
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@... wrote: Rolfing is not (yet) approved. On one of the BatGap interviews, a woman said she gave and received a lot of energy work before and after unfoldment. And cited Rolfing (thats different from Ralphing) as a method for huge

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-03 Thread PaliGap
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/273611 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: On the other hand, where I see things differently to you, is that I don't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-02 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-02 Thread Vaj
On Apr 1, 2011, at 11:37 PM, seventhray1 wrote: Warning: Grammatically Challenged Reply: I kind of get the impression that you are describing a very linear process. For me it would be more like an experiential lab that a teacher went through, using themselves as the experiment and the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-02 Thread Vaj
On Apr 2, 2011, at 12:03 AM, Yifu wrote: Vetting by resume can be helpful, but the bottom line: direct experience. Vaj's family judged the book by the cover and thus missed out on something; a frequent happenstance among intellectual elites who fail to take the plunge. The Skeptic

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-02 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: curtisdeltablues@ wrote: These points are interesting to me. There are two places to start that end in the same conclusion for me. 1. You believe that chakra energy experiences are real,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-02 Thread curtisdeltablues
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Curtis, Word of mouth can work. To spread misinformation as well as good information. As social creatures we are inordinately swayed in our beliefs by this. Acupuncture, network-chiropractic, cranial-sacral are three

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-02 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Curtis, Word of mouth can work. To spread misinformation as well as good information. As social creatures we are inordinately

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-02 Thread Vaj
On Apr 2, 2011, at 11:20 AM, tartbrain wrote: Rolfing is not (yet) approved. On one of the BatGap interviews, a woman said she gave and received a lot of energy work before and after unfoldment. And cited Rolfing (thats different from Ralphing) as a method for huge release of emotional

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-02 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: ... Yes anecdotal evidence is compelling to those uneducated to its psycological sway over its epistemological validity. I suspect I'm inadvertently channeling Card here, but what is the difference between

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-02 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@... wrote: Always good to consider an edit for simplification especially with a potentially pretentious word like epistemological. In most conversations I would not use it. But here on FFL life some posters like Doug use a system for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: curtisdeltablues@ wrote: snip People whose trust by the public is based on their credentials certified by the state as a mental health

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-02 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: ... Yes anecdotal evidence is compelling to those uneducated to its psycological sway over its epistemological validity. I suspect

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-02 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: curtisdeltablues@ wrote: snip People whose trust by the public

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-02 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: Always good to consider an edit for simplification especially with a potentially pretentious word like epistemological. In most

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-02 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@... wrote: Many fascinating points! I'll comment below. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: Always good to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: snip People whose trust by the public is based on their

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-02 Thread shanti2218411
FWIW anxiety is a sx of many different psychological disorders. The tx of anxiety would largely be based on what the underlying disorder is.A simple phobia would be treated in much different fashion than would the anxiety that is associated with a terminal illness.A considerable

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 kc21d@... wrote: snip It seems to me mental health professionals who use forms of therapy such as chakra therapy have an ethical and professional obligation to identify a clear theoretical framework and a body of evidence to support using

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-02 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Curtis, Word of mouth can work. To spread misinformation as well as good information. As social creatures we are inordinately

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-02 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Curtis, Word of mouth can work. To spread

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-01 Thread Vaj
On Mar 31, 2011, at 7:06 PM, emptybill wrote: We've been over this before. In Buddhism, samaadhi means dharana while dhyana-samaapatti is absorption in meditation. Transcendence is a western concept. In Sanskrit, the term (taraatitaa) is not officially used also (in Buddhism). Sometimes

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-01 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: I would try askjeeeves.com. It is probably a very common occurance, and jeeves can likely offer some sound advice about it. Dear Jeeves, my kundalini is on fire and I am writhing around like a snake here at 3:00

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-01 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote: I would try askjeeeves.com. It is probably a very common occurance, and jeeves can likely offer some sound advice about it. Dear Jeeves,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-01 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: These points are interesting to me. There are two places to start that end in the same conclusion for me. 1. You believe that chakra energy experiences are real, valuable and can be distinguished from the possible

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-01 Thread Vaj
On Apr 1, 2011, at 12:10 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: Here are the problems I see. First who has the training in both mental health and chakras to a level that there can be a definitive diagnosis of one or the other paradigm? The Catholic church sends all exorcism cases to a psychiatrist

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-01 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: These points are interesting to me. There are two places to start that end in the same conclusion for me. 1. You believe that chakra energy experiences are real, valuable and can be distinguished from the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-01 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: Basically the only people who are doing this do a lengthy psychological evaluation and profile, along with long questionnaire and interview of all the various developmental issues one dealt with in their lives. Then and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-01 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: These points are interesting to me. There are two places to start that end in the same conclusion for me. 1. You believe that chakra

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-01 Thread wayback71
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote: These points are interesting to me. There are two places to start that end in the same conclusion for me. 1. You believe that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-01 Thread Vaj
On Apr 1, 2011, at 1:31 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: Basically the only people who are doing this do a lengthy psychological evaluation and profile, along with long questionnaire and interview of all the various

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-01 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: snip The limiting factor in my case was my family. They'd dealt with and known various yogis and lamas in the Himalayas for many decades before I was born. None of them, not one trusted Mahesh. ALL refused any instruction in TM.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-01 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: These points are interesting to me. There are two

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-01 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Apr 1, 2011, at 1:31 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: Basically the only people who are doing this do a lengthy psychological evaluation and profile, along

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-01 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-01 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: That's a really good question, but I suspect my answer might seem a lot simpler than you expected. Really the criteria should be no different from any other professional you might want to hire. All of my current teachers had a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-01 Thread Yifu
Vetting by resume can be helpful, but the bottom line: direct experience. Vaj's family judged the book by the cover and thus missed out on something; a frequent happenstance among intellectual elites who fail to take the plunge. The Skeptic Michael Shermer is a typical example, although he did

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-01 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-03-31 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: According to HHDL, awareness of the subtle energy of the body, and the ability to effect it, begins once one can transcend for about 4 hours. The Frederick Lenz - Rama guy I worked with always said (and interestingly, so did

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-03-31 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: The Rama guy refused to teach any of his students anything he considered advanced until they could maintain the completely thoughtless state for several hours. That was what he considered the brown belt level of meditation.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-03-31 Thread Buck
One of the Bobby Roth TM questioners last week that I thought was most interesting was the young woman MUM student from New Mexico asking about more guidance with chakra energy work and hoping for services at MUM with this for people who would need help with that, besides meditating. It

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-03-31 Thread Vaj
On Mar 31, 2011, at 2:02 PM, Buck wrote: One of the Bobby Roth TM questioners last week that I thought was most interesting was the young woman MUM student from New Mexico asking about more guidance with chakra energy work and hoping for services at MUM with this for people who would need

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-03-31 Thread Peter L Sutphen
Unguided practice. My biggest complaint about TM and the TM siddhis. As long as progress is slow and gentle, not a problem for the most part. But when experiences begin to move into self transcendence and all the cognitive and emotional uproar this will create, you need a guru. Peter On Mar

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-03-31 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter L Sutphen Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 1:34 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence Unguided practice. My biggest

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-03-31 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Vaj Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 1:25 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence On the Ayurveda training course with Chopra

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-03-31 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter L Sutphen Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 1:34 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-03-31 Thread Peter
: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 3:34 PM From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter L Sutphen Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 1

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-03-31 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@... wrote: I hope she's doing okay now. If you're having intense kundalini the last thing you want to do are asanas! She needed to go out and have an emergency hamburger or two! If your kundalini is on fire the last thing you

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-03-31 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 4:14 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence I hope she's doing okay now. If you're

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-03-31 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Unguided practice. My biggest complaint about TM and the TM siddhis. As long as progress is slow and gentle, not a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-03-31 Thread emptybill
We've been over this before. In Buddhism, samaadhi means dharana while dhyana-samaapatti is absorption in meditation. Transcendence is a western concept. In Sanskrit, the term (taraatitaa) is not officially used also (in Buddhism). Sometimes transcendence is used by western educated people as

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-03-31 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: One of the Bobby Roth TM questioners last week that I thought was most interesting was the young woman MUM student from New Mexico asking about more guidance with chakra energy work and hoping for services at MUM with this for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-03-31 Thread seventhray1
I would try askjeeeves.com. It is probably a very common occurance, and jeeves can likely offer some sound advice about it. Dear Jeeves, my kundalini is on fire and I am writhing around like a snake here at 3:00 am. Can you please give some advice on what to do. --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-03-31 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: She's doing great now. Awakened after leaving the movement and sitting with various satsang teachers. Glad to hear it Rick. Of course she couldn't get enlightened while in the movment. that wouldn't be kosher. And with