nice one, Richard ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <richard@...> wrote :
You've just described The Maharishi Effect. Now can you spell cognitive dissonance? Thanks. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : The Rama guy I spent some time with had some interesting theories, some of which I still lean in the direction of. One of them was that the universe is relational, not hierarchical. "We know, if we drop a stone in a pond, the ripples begin to move, and they move over the whole pond, reaching all the extremities. One slight stir in any part of the pond stirs the whole pond, influences the entire field of water, and its surroundings. Similarly, by every thought, word and action, every individual is setting forth influence in his surroundings, and that influence is not restricted to any boundaries. It goes on and on and reaches every level of creation." - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi TM Power: Tapping the untapped source of power that lies within http://tinyurl.com/42ggy3y http://tinyurl.com/42ggy3y To this day, I am SO down with this. Pretty much ALL of the problems with spiritual practice can be traced back to that moment of mistaking the basic nature of the universe as hierarchical, rather than relational. According to what I've read, one of the demonstrable powers claimed by TM is the "Maharishi effect." According to TM scientists: "collective meditation causes changes in a fundamental, unified physical field, and...those changes radiate into society and affect all aspects of society for the better"... Anyway, back to that "temporarily capable of ..." thing you mentioned, Rama thought that the study of relational database was quite beneficial to people on a spiritual path because to become good at it you have to be capable of holding a huge, three-dimensional representation of a hunk of data -- and more importantly the relationships *between* the different parts and types of this hunk of data -- in your head. He likened being able to hold a complex corporate database in your head to be this century's counterpart of Tibetan monks holding whole, three-dimensional mandalas in their heads. I still agree with him about this. He may have been a crazy fuck, but he was right about this one. From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 8:11 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Set faces to stunned... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote : Re "Set faces to stunned": I am fully gobsmacked. The coordination between brain, hands and cubes is so finely tuned it's miraculous. Who needs sidhis? Not this guy for sure, or mindfulness either. And this video may have started something. It popped up on my Facebook page because a friend of mine - who can do Rubik's cubes in his head* and can also juggle - has seen it as a challenge. He reckons himself and a friend, similarly talented, will be able to do seven cubes while juggling and passing them between them. They start practising this week I will post the video if they achieve it. * I know he can do them in his head because we were round someone's house when we were kids and they had a cube and we asked if he could do them. He looked at it for a minute and said he could tell that some stickers had been moved which made us laugh, but then he moved a few around and then did the whole thing in less than a minute. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : https://www.facebook.com/EightNinetySeven/videos/10153461649158747/ https://www.facebook.com/EightNinetySeven/videos/10153461649158747/
