-Good points!....true; and by the same token, the more adept at being a criminal (or fill in ....any other endeavor)...the more highly evolved the person is at being a criminal. All depends on what we mean by "evolved"; since Stalin was highly evolved at being a despot.
-- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone sent me this. I think he meant to post it to the group. > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This was sent to me on the side: > > > > Unc said, when discussing how movements degenerate > > into money meaning status or some such: The first is > > that how much money one has or is able to > > make is somehow tied to their level of evolution or to > > the "support of nature" for their endeavors. > > > > Around 1990 one of the big donors once sat in a room with me > > chatting and very seriously told me that Maharishi had > > told him something like the more money you have, the > > more evolved you are. > > > > So Maharishi feeds these people this kind of thing all > > the time. > > > > I just sat there dazed....I mean how do you answer > > something like that. He sure was in his own puffed up world... > > > It's very common in traditions that believe in reincarnation: you > find yourself in the state of life you are because of your overall > evolution. You wouldn't have been able to obtain such a state WITHOUT > said evolution. What you chose to do with your current state is > another matter entirely, and one aspect of this belief is that the > more evolved you are (the more money and stature you have using > Maharishi's criteria), the more responsibility, resources and > influences you have and the more dire your consequences (in this life > or the next, or both) should you make bad choices. > > In other words, not only is the attitude of Maharishi's that you > report *mainstream*, but its also quite logical. > > And it is perfectly in-keeping with what Jesus said about the rich > having a hard time entering heaven --unlike the poor, who have an > incentive to strive as much as possible to better themselves, given > the opportunity, rich people, who often rest on their laurels from > past lives, have no momentum to carry them forward into something > better. > > It's a spiritual example of "regression to the mean": the more > evolved you are, the easier it is to not bother trying to grow, and > the more likely you are to slip a good ways, if you stop growing > because you have further to fall. > > Maharishi said something on this from a different direction when he > made his comment about angels finding it hard to become enlightened > because where they live is so beautiful that it is difficult to get > them to close their eyes... 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/
