Barry wrote in reference to this post and Dan: You've got to give him credit. No one else even tried. :-)
Share's reply: I did. ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Share Long <sharelon...@yahoo.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, August 4, 2012 6:26 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] An Open Question to FFLers Good morning TurqB and thank you for asking this question. In the spirit of the Byron Katie question, "Can you absolutely know that's true," I don't know if Maharishi was enlightened. btw, I have yet to find a situation in which I can answer yes to that BK question. Not a single one. And I also experience what I call knowingness which is more than intellectual knowledge and includes intuition as well as instinctual, bodily and emotional intelligence. This intuitive knowingness is what I experienced when I attended the TM intro lecture. I knew that it was what I had been seeking. And so I started TM the weekend before the Merv Griffin Show. 37 years later and between 5 and 10 programs total missed due to travel and or illness, and this intuitive knowing is still what keeps me on this path. As I've shared here before, I have investigated many other systems. I no longer look to the TMO for my emotional healing tho I do experience it as the foundation for my emotional development. By which I mean I don't think the other stuff would work as well as it has if I hadn't been doing TMSP. Which also gets a lot of credit for developing my intuitive knowing. When I left MUM 10 years ago to seek the emotional healing I needed, I was at peace with TMO. I had come to know that TMO is in the relative, thus best not to expect it to be perfect. Since then I have come to understand about internal dysfunctional families and how they are reflected in any and all groups one might join. Of course the leader of any such group would be a reflection of one's inner father. Both positive and negative projections leftover from childhood will be put on this person. Best to be conscious about such projections. Also as stated before, I am not a TM gov so don't have that particular bond with Maharishi. But I continue with TMSP and I continue to deeply resonate with Maharishi's explanations about consciousness, etc. That is more than enough for me. Hope this helps. ________________________________ From: turquoiseb <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 4, 2012 5:05 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] An Open Question to FFLers This question has been posed before, by numerous people, but I don't remember it ever being dealt with in any depth, or with any real honesty, so I'm posing it again: If you believe that Maharishi was enlightened (in at least Cosmic Consciousness as he defined it, let alone Unity Consciousness as he defined it), WHY do you believe this? I ask because, try as I might I never once, in all the years I studied with him and was around him, heard Maharishi claim to be enlightened. Not once. I have met or encountered on the Internet *many* people whose experience was the same as mine; they cannot think of a single occasion on which he actually claimed to be in any higher state of consciousness. And yet, day after day we hear people talking on this and other forums as if Maharishi's enlightenment could be *assumed*, that it's a Done Deal, and a fact. They stake their entire reputations on this. I'm wondering WHY. If you're one of these people, convinced that Maharishi was enlightened, could you possibly explain WHY you feel this way? Thanks in advance...