You sure have a "lofty" opinion of Maharishi. He's just an Indian guy
who was a monk and decided to teach meditation. There are lots of folks
like that in India. ;-)
Years ago my cousin, a real estate agent, recommended Napoleon Hill's
"Think and Go Rich". I read some it but what stood out was that it was
like the TM-Sidhi's program and this book was published in the early
20th century. IOW, there is nothing new under the sun. The techniques
of samyama have been around for ages. They are at the core of much of
Indian yoga and philosophy.
We don't understand consciousness very well. This goes for the
scientific community too which is just beginning to study it. What I
meant about the placebo effect is why if you give one group a real
medicine and another a sugar pill why does the second group still get
results? I've tested this myself and am able to manifest the effects of
herbs and vitamin supplements (especially minerals) without actually
taking them. I can also shift my body state by doing samyama on the
desired state.
If people here haven't watched it yet and indeed it is a long interview,
Rick's interview with Robert Svoboda, whose ayurvedic workshops I
attended, is VERY insightful. I like how he talks about modern medicine
and his opinion which I've thought for years is they often don't know
why some medicine will work and they make it sound like it is a
supernatural phenomenon. Whereas natural healers who actually pay
attention to biochemistry and physics do understand how something works.
On 04/11/2014 10:59 AM, [email protected] wrote:
One assumes that Maharishi chose a subset of the siddhis mentioned in
Patanjali that he thought were most beneficial, as he didn't include
all of them in the TM-SIddhis practices -not even all of the ones he
originally experimented with.
If you look at the categories of practices, they appear to cover a
very broad range, so I'm curious: which vital/important categories of
siddhis do you think he left out?
I mean, in theory, just about anything could be seen as potentially a
siddhi, when the action is performed by a fully enlightened person.
What activities would provide better "stitches" between relative and
absolute, do you think?
L
---In [email protected], <noozguru@...> wrote :
Of course. They are very interesting and powerful techniques. They
do things that are not taught in the TM Sidhis.
On 04/10/2014 10:04 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
Hey cool, Bhairitu got the real deal! Do you still do them?
---In [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>, <noozguru@...>
<mailto:noozguru@...> wrote :
On 04/10/2014 05:10 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
We were all disappointed when we found out it was in English, I
was hoping for some super-mantra things.
The tantric siddhis I learned are "super-mantra things". They're
all in Sanskrit. But we also translated them. And they work
pretty much the same way that sutras in English do.
