Has it ever occured to you that you threw out the baby with the bath water?
That TM and TM-Sidhis practice are beneficial in their own right, regardless of the overblown rhetoric that was used to sell them to you? L. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There's no end of bullshit some people will believe. > > > > > > > > > Obviously. However, if one suspends all common sense (to use your term) > > while participating in something, and then decides that that something > > doesn't jive with common sense, it isn't surprising that you would suddenly > > decide that the self-created straw-man of your own belief system was > > bullshit. > > It depends what the belief system is, the idea that I self- > created a belief around the "siddhis" is laughable, I got > my knowledge and understanding about it from the reesh > himself it's just that I don't try and kid myself about what > it meant now it's turned out not to work. > > In the case of levitation via yogic hopping I can honestly, > but shamefully, say that I brought into it for a while. I find > it hard to comprehend that I once really did believe, even for > a second, that the laws of physics were optional due to having > a few very unlikely phrases from Maharishi. But yes, I think > I was dumb enough to believe it for a while. That's the power > of cults, they can turn everyone into an idiot for a while or > as long as the need to hold the belief outweighs the fear of > having to think for yourself. We live and learn don't we. > Hopefully. > > > > One can make the case that ALL belief systems are bullshit. > > I try and avoid them, all we have really are things that are > more or less likely to be true. And it all comes down to what > you accept as evidence. > > > > > L > > >
