--- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote:
> Not true. Different states of consciousness exist; I have > experienced many of the ones Maharishi talked about. What > I am not sold on is that any of them were "higher." I am > content to interpret my experiences as merely different > from waking state, not "higher." Also, I reject much of > the mythology surrounding what the various states "mean" > according to Hinudism and according to Maharishi. Maybe "higher" has a undesireable connotation. But if you have come to conclude that there is a path of some kind, then likely there would be a goal (of some kind). I am not saying that one has to broadcast, "hey everyone, see the path I'm on, I'm heading somewhere, and there are some neat milestones I've observed" What I'm saying is that at some point you decided to pursue something along spiritual lines. To use a somewhat MMY analogy. If you are in a boat on a river, you are going to arrive somewhere, whether you try to or not. It's the fact that you got into the boat, and got onto the river. The rest takes care of itself to some extent. Yea, there are a lot of places you can get stuck, you can capsize, you can decide to get off for a while. But likely over the course of time you are likely to make your way down the river. The scenerary may change somewhat over time, due to seasons or other factors, but I think the landscape will have a lot of similarites for all those going down the river.
