On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 2:26 AM, TurquoiseB <[email protected]>wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "seventhray1" <steve.sun...@...> > wrote: > > > > He's a plant. A very, very clever SSRS plant. This is the > > last sphere where MMY thought dominates. TP is on special > > assignment to wean some of the fence sitters away to the > > competition. But It Won't Work!. We're onto to you TP. Your > > plot is now uncovered. Let's here about how you fall asleep > > during Kriya. Yea, that's a more likely scenario. > > I think it's neat that Tom has finally found > something to write positively about, but I'm > seeing it more akin to the old classic New > Yorker cartoon in which two guys at a cocktail > party are talking about a third guy, standing > alone across the room, wearing a slightly crazed > smile on his face. They're saying, "Avoid that > guy...he just read a book that changed his life." > > It's the Newbie thang. Tom's experiencing some- > thing new and different, for the first time in > decades. *Of course* he's somewhat enthusiastic > about it. But IMO he'd be equally enthusiastic > if the course he'd taken was on tantric basket > weaving instead of kriya. He got off his butt > and did something new, and feels rejuvenated as > a result. The larger issue IMO will be how long > he *stays* rejuvenated. > > In the Rama trip, because there was no injunction > against "seeing other teachers," we got used to > having fellow students come back from some course > or weekend seminar or retreat radiating excitement > and talking like salespersons for the thing they > had just tried. But we also got used to listening > politely and then waiting a few weeks to see how > long the purported benefits of the New Big Thing > lasted. In most cases the excitement went away > within a few days, and the person was "back to > normal" within a week. > > Real change in a spiritual sense is IMO something > you have to display over a long period of time. > I tend to treat the temporary excitement of "Oh > boy! I've just seen a teacher who lit up the room > with shakti and my life is changed forever" coming > from a spiritual seeker the same way I would "Oh > boy! I just saw Blind Boy Boddhisattva and my life > is changed forever" coming from a music fan. My > response is pretty much the same in both cases: > "Find me in two months and tell me about it then." > > > > > I am *not* a plant. I am a fungus. Specifically a mushroom. Since 1973 I've been kept in the dark and been fed bullshit. Actually, I have no desire to entice fencesitters. I'm truly looking for advice here. Peter told me that if I had any questions about AOL that I should email them to him. Well, he either doesn't read my emails or disposes of my emails w/o responding. I can't find a more appropriate forum to discuss my questions and Lord knows I looked. The white light experience continues. If it does continue, if it doesn't it doesn't continue, it doesn't matter. I didn't expect to get much out of the Art of Living course except perhaps some soothing breathing technique. I got a bunch of Vedic drivel I suspect is more a function of the lack of depth of the teachers of the course and a kriya. A kriya I didn't expect to have the effects it's having on me. In a few days I go away for a four day Art of Silence course. I expect even less from it than I expected from the AOL course. I hope to meet another non-Indian. It was a real downer to have 2 Indian instructors and 3 fellow CPs on the AOL, all Kshatris, all electrical engineers. I've located an Italian AOL/AOS in Europe. He's sort of a Eurozone leader. Imagine. Someone who speaks English! I don't expect the flash I've experienced over the past week to stay with me. Then again, it may stay, grow and prosper. What I didn't ever expect is happening to me. My thought patterns, from the very deepest level, have been kidnapped. I found myself on my first day after the AOL course at war with myself, feeling uplifting, you know, the old 1970s kind of Maharishi speak no evil uplifting. My habitual ways of thinking and doing collided with the new patterns of looking at things and doing things in an uplifting fashion. The second day, there was less of a war. As the days went on I found myself being transformed and not fighting it. What I /do/ expect to carry away from this AOL kriya is the addition this new element into my spiritual practice. I expect that my attention will be increasingly drawn away from my lower, lustier chakras to higher ones. I don't know the mechanism the kriya uses to change my very approach, the actual way I perceive things and respond to them. Another thing I expect to carry away is deeper TM/TMSP. I can't see the kriya suddenly no longer suffusing my program with Being already there to do the sutras before I start thinking the mantra and also with light and airiness. Is the kriya making me more spiritual, light and airy? Yes. But it's also facilitating my TM/TMSP. It's like I've been stuck in a rut for so many years and the kriya got me out of the rut or added just a bit a churna to balance everything out. It would have hurt to say this just a week ago. I belong to you, Barry.
