--- In [email protected], nablusoss1008 <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], maskedzebra <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > I note there is a Catholic priest in Brazil teaching children > > Transcendental Meditation. I have seen the David Lynch tape. An obviously > > sincere and heroic character, this priest nevertheless (it's not his fault: > > his Church can't deliver on the goods regarding God like TM can; and this > > became obvious to him, which is why he made that most ironic of decisions: > > to became a TM Teacher) is betraying Christ as it were. Else why have Saint > > Francis Xavier destroying the Hindu statues in India in the 16th > > centuryall the while moving and acting within a brilliant supernatural > > grace? Now those Hindu statues have been invisibly erected inside the > > interiority of his priesthood. > > > > But this, of course, authfriend, is the current dilemma of the Catholic > > Church, and this priest but an innocent victim. His Catholicism cannot > > provide him with the verification of the truth of his religion, so he has > > turned elsewhere, and become, within his calling as a priest, a bloody TM > > initiator. Someone teaching children to worship a Hindu god (praying to > > their mantra). Whereas, according to orthodoxpre-Vatican IIbelief, these > > Hindu gods are fallen angels in disguiseand are thus banished from heaven, > > and are the enemies of the immortal soul of this Brazilian priest. > > > Like I said MZ; you definately need a checking. > No, make that 3. Dear nablusoss,
The striking thing about this response of yours, nablusoss is that were I the convinced TM initiator that I was (early and mid seventies) I would experience the perfect truth of this antidote. Not through any kind of unthinking dogmatism, but 'just taking it naturally', this is what would innocently and spontaneously occur to me: "You definitely need a checking." That is how thoroughly Maharishi trained and conditioned us; that we would consider this response (to someone saying what I have said about the Brazilian priest) not only the correct one, but, even in some sense from the point of view of 'God', the right one. In other words, your response is not arbitrary and unthinking; it takes into its train (seemingly) the entire universe; for this is what we were representing: the reality of things. If anyone began to have these kinds of thoughts (as expressed by me in my long post to authfriend) God himself would recommend just this remedy. And Indeed we would know that once having been checked (ideally three times) we would be confident, if we showed him what he had written, he would remarkin some way or another: "Oh, dear; you're right. I don't feel that way at al about this matter now. I wish I had not written that." Because, of course, he (me) just needed to an experience of a higher state of consciousness, and immediately that which he had done from a more limited (narrow angled lens in MMY speak) would be seenpost-checkingas not representative of his (my) thinking after transcending. Now, I suppose you meant this both seriously and facetiously. But remembering what it was like to be an initiator, I deem your remedy entirely effectual; but more importantly, the only one. And even beyond this, the true and right remedy [from the widest angled lens there could be]. Teaching TM, checking someone's meditation (the procedure of initiation, the checking notes): these are the two most brilliant and efficacious methods of inducing a religious experience in my lifetime. But to re-emphasize my main idea here, nablusoss: the way one would know that this is the appropriate response to someone who would post something like this (about the Brazilian priest) went down into us initiators as deep as anything could goI mean while one is under the spell of the incomparable Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and certain that the experiences delivered to one through Transcendental Meditation are objectively true. As if the hungry infant only needs the Mother's breast, and he will stop crying. Meanwhile I have disavowed these truths; more than this, I have come to experience that TM and Maharishi exercised, in the end, a deleterious influence over my mind and body and soul. Even though I very much doubt in my lifetime I will ever have such glorious experiences [TM], nor feel such perfect love [for Maharishi]. What you say in response then to me, nablusoss, just underscores how subtle and profound this whole business of Maharishi and TM really was, and is. Because, as I say, I can contact the deep memory inside of me which recognizes the brilliant truth of your responseafter all, I would say and think and apprehend the appropriateness of, exactly what you have said to me. >
