--- In [email protected], "luvgemlight" wrote:
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> Having received regular Maharishi Light Therapy with Gem treatments here in
> southern california ( http://www.socalgemlight.com/ ) either twice or four
> times each month since my first treatment last march in 2012, I can safely
> say that, yes, it is a powerful treatment modality for improving
> consciousness and creativity, and the "light beamers" are laser penlights --
> thus, the light passing through these gems is very coherent (unlike ambient
> lighting from any other source). I've had a ritam experience, one time, plus
> some kundalini awakening later on after that particular treatment. Also, I'm
> the last person to notice that I'm transcending during the treatments. I
> usually have to infer this from the fact that my experience of myself is so
> naturally transparent that I don't realize that this transparency is truly my
> Self. These gemlight treatments are very empowering to the mind, so that care
> and consideration given to one's thoughts, speech, and action is a very good
> idea since they can materialize.
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> --- In [email protected], bob_brigante wrote:
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> > On tonight's (MON Feb 2nd) Global Family Chat on the Maharishi
> > Channel, they talked about the new light/gem therapy in Maharishi
> > Ayurveda (the first line of Rig Veda says that agni/fire is the
> > source of gems,
Well, the compound word is
ratnadhaatama: (ratna-dhaa + superlative suffix -tama?)
ratnadhA [ = ratnadhaa] mfn. procuring wealth , distributing
riches or precious things (%{-tama} mfn. distñdistributing great riches) RV.
AV. S3Br. ; possessing wealth RV.
According to Macdonell's comment:
...'ratna' never means /jewel/ in the Rgveda. :/
agnim iiLe purohitaM
yajñasya devam RtvijaM
hotaaraM ratnadhaatamam.
gems are described in the Vedas as the "Radiance of
> > God" -- Charaka Samhita says gems are second in treatment value only
> > to mantras, and gems are ahead of herbal treatments). They use some
> > sort of light (frequency depends on the gem involved, amethyst,
> > emerald, etc -- seven types of gems used all told) in a flashlight-
> > type device which shines light through 12 gems set in gold. The light
> > is flashed on the palm of the hand (some of the photos in newspaper
> > articles show people getting the light beam on the forehead even
> > though the Raj people only talked about palm application), and people
> > are reporting good experiences (some expansion of consciousness,
> > healing of injured area, etc) in the 300 treatments at the Raj to
> > date. The light is supposed to act on the "light body" of the
> > recipient, and although there are side effects like healing, it's
> > basically designed to remove obstacles to enlightenment values more
> > than just wearing gems, with the goal of letting celestial light fill
> > the body. In Switzerland all the HMOs pay for this therapy up to 80%
> > of the cost of treatment. Ayurveda recipes including powdered gems
> > are legal in Germany, but not yet legal in the USA.
> >
> > "There is no inside or outside. The same light inside, the same light
> > outside."
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