On 02/02/2011 01:11 PM, RoryGoff wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu<noozguru@...> wrote: >> On 02/02/2011 12:24 PM, RoryGoff wrote: >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu<noozguru@> wrote: >>>> On 02/02/2011 09:24 AM, RoryGoff wrote: >>>>> Right, Jim! >>>>> >>>> OK, but what is your spiritual background outside of TM? >>>> >>> * * * Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, >>> it's too dark to read :-) >> So I assume your only spiritual experience has been with TM, right? > * * * No. I just have no interest in rehashing my "story" at the moment. If > you really care, you can read some of it (up to about 1990) here: > http://rorygoff.com/open/rory-goff-a-spiritual-autobiography/ > >> Attending astrology symposiums I met people who were true blue to TM but >> still enjoyed meeting with people of diverse spiritual backgrounds and were >> much broader minded that some of the TB'ers I find here. On those courses we >> got some interesting stories from Indian astrologers and tantrics who even >> knew MMY. I also recommend even a short excursion to India can be quite eye >> opening (as long as you aren't chaperoned by the >> TMO). >> > * * * I have been to India twice physically, once "unchaperoned," for the > summer of 1974 -- although I did end up at MMY's ashram in Rishikesh, I was > the only "CP" there. The second time was on the Science and Veda course in > New Delhi in 1980-81, when I met MMY and essentially "divorced" the TMO. > India was amazingly catalytic, both times, but I currently have no desire to > return there "in the flesh." > >> What you will find with the "seekers" and "finders" here is "been their, >> done that, got the t-shirt or a bunch of them." So they may not be that >> interested in babbling on about it. Sounds like someone ought to start a >> "Maharishi Talk" group or forum so those who wax nostalgic. ;-) > * * * Thank you; I have been writing on FFL, on and off, since about 2004; I > am pretty clear on most of the actors and their various scripts. I am > actually having a lot of fun here just as it is, and just as I am. ;-)
I have never found dissecting enlightenment all that interesting. Just enjoying it and reading about the experiences of other yogis, saints as well as meeting some (which in some cases were ordinary Indian villages with their third eye opened). Some people seem to want to wax intellectually about it for eternity. But as you know when the experience bites you in the butt it bite you. ;-)
