Back in the day, Maharishi wanted MIU graduates to be given a printout that
showed their progress toward enlightenment. The idea was to run a baseline
measurement upon entering the University to compare to a final assessment upon
graduation. Apparently they ran into some problems with that idea - as with
most of MMY's ideas, huh?
If the school were more ecumenical, they could be a center for such research,
teaming up with Buddhists and others interested in determining markers of
awakening. That would have been kinda cool.
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From: Vaj <vajradh...@earthlink.net>
To: Patrick Gillam <jpgil...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, January 5, 2009 10:45:07 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Distractions
On Jan 5, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Patrick Gillam wrote:
I'm with Hugo on this one. I thought it was
Maharishi University's job to determine the
physiological parameters of higher states
of consciousness.
And of course you're exactly right, that was one of the good things about MMY:
opening up the field of meditation research by acknowledging these realities.
We all have physical bodies last time I checked! The Two Truths, the relative
and absolute, arise simultaneously and inseparably, so anyone trying to claim
they're somehow "beyond confirmation" via some absolutist criteria should
immediately be considered suspect.
And the same goes with all the traditional criteria: they're there for a
reason, and MMY did authentically enumerate some of them. It's interesting to
me how offended the "enlightened" are when this is mentioned. I've seen a
number of people be tested, myself included and it was extremely helpful for
not falling into self-delusion and self-deception.
