Interesting that so many of these spiritual groups that developed historically
had commonly started out around a mystic in meetings held in people's living
rooms then going on towards facilitating around that in to organizations and
becoming a history. In Europe they would have living room meetings [satsanga?]
and then grow in to facilitating groups while defending themselves against the
persecutions that would come from the established local orthodoxy, be that the
Lutherans, Papists, or Anglicans of their day. Then, eventually fleeing to
America.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Thanks. Yes, the world could use a lot more piety. FFL could too.
-Buck the Pious
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Nicely put. It reminds me of something I wanted to say about awoelflebater's
post on another thread ("power naps"): "Now, these long-term, incessant
meditators obviously have absolutely nothing else pressing in their lives to
compel them to want to stand up and open their eyes.":
We understand what you're saying but it is a common belief in all
contemplative traditions that communities joined together practising silent
prayer (eg, monks and nuns) have a beneficial effect on the world even though
to practical, common-sense types they seem to be a waste of space. Indeed, even
the very recollection that there are men and women who forsake the feverish
ambitions of the mass of people induces a feeling of calm!
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote:
[Pietist, belief in the power of individual meditation [Quietism] on the
divine [Unified Field] – a direct, individual approach to the ultimate
spiritual reality of the [Unified Field] – ]
