>> somebody wrote: >> > > Did you do TM before you tried > > the other > > techniques? If yes, might this have helped your > > results? > > gullible fool: > > Yes, I did TM for twenty years before I got involved > with any other techniques. ... > > I'm sure it helped my results, but there are students > in their twenties who are reaching basic awakening > through VortexHealing, with maybe doing nothing prior > to VortexHealing than being an Amma devotee for a few > years. For me, it's been 32 years of spiritual work. > Maybe I should have incarnated in 1980 instead of in > 1954. :)
The premise of TM is that it enriches all areas of life because it "enlivens" the substrate of life, pure consciousness. We don't notice consciousness is missing because it's flat and featureless. Maharishi said this is the one experience that's missing; add it, and you'll benefit. And that's pretty much what most of us have experienced. Peter Sutphen has posited that most TMers are saturated with that flat awareness to the point that they're ripe to bursting if given a practice that "pulls it out," so to speak. The sidhis do that to an extent, but many seem to profit from something else. If this premise is true, it would make sense that anything we do after doing TM would bring noticeable results. Those results might make TM look bad, but remember that TM brings flatness, not flash. I've mentioned here before about how a TM teacher at the Iowa City Center back in the day, Susan Isaacs, once commented about how flat everything is. There was a reason for that. As for non-TMers getting great results from Vortex Healing, or whatever: if the notion of collective consciousness is valid, and collective consciousness is on the rise as even non-TMers say it is, people who pursue spiritual and self- development practices today will get better results than those of us who learned back in the day. I was always impressed by and envious of people who'd learn TM from me in the '80s and early '90s, the last times I taught, because their experiences were so textbook clear. Those people really demonstrated to me the validity of collective consciousness theories. In summary, I think it's great that all these practices other than TM are generating such great results for people. I'd like to get me some of those myself. But I don't consider those results to negate the value of TM. On the contrary, for the reasons above, those great results could be construed as validating Maharishi's premise that everything gets better with TM, and that his programs contribute to a rise in collective consciousness. ------------------------ 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/
