--- In [email protected], Tom Pall <thomas.p...@...> wrote:
> 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. I heard, but I don't know if it is true, that in Cleveland, there was another non Indian in the program. But that was some time ago, so I don't know if it is still the case. 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. I believe this is referred to as the Vulcan effect in AOL parlance 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. Called the Susan Segal effect I believe 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. I believe a collective tear is being shed >
