Jim you are right, best to stay with trusting direct perception. Imagination can supply images of these suggested ideas but then hypnotists and Messmerists have always relied on suggestibility to have their way. Possibly scientists too sometimes exploit suggestibility too? But meditation, sets a goal, find out what life is like beyond thought! Now this does not involve bothering with suggestions, just direct experience (or as the parlance of TM would have it - beyond experience). There might be areas where I am happy to be at odds with the teachings of TM but not with regards the empowerment bestowed by going beyond thought. That is unquestionable.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Premanand Paul Mason" > <premanandpaul@> wrote: > > > > I don't believe the author of stuff about gods dwelling in cows > hairs > > anymore than myths about pixies or elves. Just hand-me-down > folklore, > > good for kids. Actually, whilst we're on this topic, I wonder that > some > > get some kind of arrested development, whereby they hang in with > > childhood fantasy stuff when others move on to deal with the real > > world. Although I have spent much time in India and explored their > > religion and beliefs at length, that research has brought me no > closer > > to believing in a large wodge of inherited cultural wisdom. > > > > Thanks for clearing that up. I agree with you to only trust our > direct perception; building castles in the air provides no shelter. > > On the other hand, if someone were to tell you that your body is > made up of closely packed, magnetically bundled quanta of energy, > resulting in the illusion of a solid object, would you believe that? > > Seems just as fanciful as the stuff you've quoted above, and yet is > the current Western scientific thinking. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
