[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

[Ann]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808"  wrote:
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@ wrote:
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> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
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> > > > cf. http://tinyurl.com/lah5w7c
> > > >
> > > > :-)
> > >
> > > We still need a customers review for this one. Anyone?
> >
> > Yes, I think one of the more articulate amongst us should raise
> > the Robster's profile with a few kind words.
>
> How 'bout if someone posts the following quotes as a review? It would
be
> a little unfair, because the person doing the reviewing doesn't think
> much of the works by this particular author ("I don't like any of
them:
> they should all be burned!"), but he does have a view that seems to be
> remarkably in accord with the research you posted earlier. That is,
that
> the author's *beliefs* and *conditioning* at the time caused him to
see
> things that weren't really there. In other words, that "belief drove
his
> perception" rather than vice-versa.
>
> "...when I wrote the passage [from this book] which was posted on FFL
I
> was steeped in this Hindu reality. Transcendental Meditation—and
> everything Maharishi added to that—created my enlightenment. Shi'a
> Islam, as practised by Khomeini, evidently produced his enlightenment,
> making it seem as it he was the Hidden Imam [what is the equivalent
for
> Shi'a Muslims of the Second Coming], and the exemplar of someone who
> perpetually did the will of Allah [Maharishi in *The Science of Being
> and The Art of Living* speaks of the enlightened person as doing the
> will of God—what I would say was the will of the Impersonal God:
the
> same with myself—not, then, the Personal God]. But on that day in
> March of 1982 I was experiencing the verification of my enlightenment,
> because here was a human being exhibiting all the characteristics of
> enlightenment albeit inside a context which took a different outward
> form than my own enlightenment: Khomeini's being Shi'a Islam; mine
being
> Hindu (with a Western dramatic theme of 'individuation' thrown in).
>
> "Now were I to see Khomeini in my present state of
> consciousness—normal, waking state consciousness—on that same
> day (March 1982), I would have perceived a human being who was
> fanatical, deceived, mystical, and ultimately dislocated from
> reality—just as I had been during the ten years in which I acted
out
> my enlightenment. But from what I could innocently experience (and if
> you read the entire account from which this excerpt is taken you will
> realize, if you are a TM initiator from the late sixties and
seventies,
> I am describing a phenomenon which is familiar to those of us who
> surrendered ourselves to what we thought was the Perfect Master,
someone
> who was the embodiment of The Absolute) Khomeini was in the identical
> state of consciousness that I was. Just on a grander scale. Shi'a
Islam
> had elevated him into a higher state of consciousness just as TM plus
> had done the same thing for me."
>
> "...I am sane now—at least I think I am, Barry,—but the person
> who wrote that account of Ayatollah Khomeini, he was—although not
> subject to the critical consciousness of anyone I met such as to
> challenge my metaphysical integrity—mystically deceived, and
living
> inside a context of reality which was created by intelligences and
> forces beyond his own control and understanding."
>
> Uh-huh. Delusional then, when thinking that the Ayatollah Khomeini was
> in Unity Consciousness (just like him) but so NOT delusional now, when
> trying to blame all of this on "intelligences and forces beyond his
own
> control and understanding."
Really, really, it's okay. They are just DOTS, they can't hurt you and
they are revolving in a clock wise direction no matter what your brain
is telling you. Take off the glasses, you will see this more clearly
then. Now, deep breaths, close the eyes and if you still see these pesky
round specks know that they only exist in your imagination. Open the
eyes. Better? This will pass Barry, but you have to remain calm and
don't upset yourself and for God's sake DON'T TRY AND CONNECT THE DOTS.















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