on 3/26/05 12:31 PM, Kenny H at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Rick > What is Shannon up to now?
He lives out in Hawaii now. He had polio as a child - his inoculation gave it to him - and this led to complications later in life which qualify him for Medicare support or something like that. He also writes reviews of high end audio equipment for Hi-Fi magazines. He's a very articulate writer in expressing his understanding/experience of "Unicity", as he calls it (i.e., an Advaitin sort of perspective on things) which has dawned in him in the last year or two. >How long did his brahmachari lifestyle > last? A few years. >Did the others, Billy Clayton, Rob, et al, also get this > particular initiation? I think so. > Ken > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Shannon Dickson's report on his Brahmachari initiation: >> >> Hi Rick, >> Regarding my Brahmacharya initiation by MMY, it was a lovely > ceremony late >> one night in Majorca. He had the large picture of Guru Dev above a > puja set >> in his room at the Hotel Samoa, and when I came in the room he had > me sit on >> the floor on a skin at his feet and he told me about the > significance of the >> master-disciple relationship and other such things for a good while > and then >> he had me perform the puja in front of the almost life-size painting > of Guru >> Dev with him sitting over my shoulder and afterward gave me a new > recluse >> mantra, we then meditated about 15 minutes with the new mantra, and > then had >> me systematically sit facing the north, south, east and west with my > eyes >> closed while he was chanting some different Sanskrit at each of the >> different compass directions that I was sitting, and while placing > his hand >> on the top my head. He then bent down and whispered some more > Sanskrit into >> my ear other than the mantra and the whole thing lasted around 45 > minutes to >> an hour or so. And afterward, he told me to stop rounding and just > serve him >> from then on. It was after that that Billy, Louis and I took over > from Rob, >> Casey and Ned as his personal secretaries handling his daily affairs and >> schedule and taking care of him. Regarding my meditation, he said > �if there >> was time to close the eyes during the day for a brief while that was >> alright, but that it wasn�t necessary as my devotion and service to him >> would be enough�. >> >> I was 19 years old, a few months shy of 20, and went from 13 to 15 > hours a >> day of rounding to about 4 to 5 hours of sleep a night tops, and > almost no >> meditation in no time, and we ran on the pure adrenaline of youthful >> enthusiasm and joy of talking care of MMY 24/7. That whole time with > him, at >> that peak time of the movement, was a marvelous experience! >> >> Take care, >> Shannon > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > -- Rick Archer SearchSummit 1108 South B Street Fairfield, IA 52556 Phone: 641-472-9336 http://searchsummit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
