--- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > I'm not talking just about the manifestation > > of this phenomenon in the TM world, but about > > what it seems to be like in *all* of the > > groups I've seen it appear in. > > Have you observed groups in which this phenomenon has > not appeared? TM and Waking Down are the only spiritual > groups I've been involved with, and I've never encountered > this phenomenon in Waking Down.
I think that some of the groups from the Ramana Maharshi tradition do Ok, although as Vaj and others point out, there can be a lot of almost co-dependent mood-making in those groups. At least they don't go out of their way to make someone who has had a realization experience feel like shit. The best scenario I ever saw was in a Tibetan group. That particular group reflected a trad- ition that had been around a *long* time, and had thus developed their own teachings for what to do and say when one of the students starts having experiences like this. I think that the situation I described before tends to come up in groups where the teacher really doesn't have a *clue* what to say to someone who is beginning to have enlightenment experiences, and in fact abdicates his respons- ibilities by creating an atmosphere in which students are subtly discouraged from mentioning such experiences. I suspect that Maharishi falls into that class of teacher. He doesn't deal with the situation because to do so would reveal his total lack of knowledge about what to say or do. ------------------------ 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/
