--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <groups@> > wrote: > > <snip> > > > The problem as I see it is that those running the movement have > no > > > choice but to adhere to the following logic: > > > > > > > > 1. Maharishi is enlightened. > > > > 2. Therefore, everything he thinks and says expresses the > truth, > > > > even though I and the world at large may not understand it. > > > > 3. Therefore, I should stay in tune with his thinking (as I am > > > > told to do). > > <snip> > > > I agree that Maharishi is enlightened, however about five years > > > after I started TM I read his commentary on the BG, chaps. 1-6 > and > > > his SBAL books, and in there he clearly says directly that in > order > > > to gain enlightenment most efficiently for ourselves we should > do > > > *our* own dharma, although someone else's may seem very > attractive. > > > > Not only that, but the notion that "everything he > > thinks and says expresses the truth" is not at all > > consistent with his teaching, if by "truth" you mean > > *relative* truth, at least as I understand him. > > > > He's quite explicit in his Gita commentary that the > > enlightened person's actions are what Nature "wants," > > but that the person doesn't necessarily grasp the > > *reason* why Nature "wants" him to do or say this or > > that; it's just automatic and spontaneous. > > > Mark David Chapman described his experience of shooting John Lennon > as one where he was watching what he was doing as a separate entity > from himself.
Derealization, a well-defined psychiatric disorder, oftimes due to childhood trauma which apparently can cause measureable brain dysfunction, which coincidentally is radically different than the brain function of someone in the TM witnessing state. The witnessing-like phenomenon reported by the derealized person may SOUND like TM witnessing, but it apparently is not the same physical state or at least, the EEG studies show radically different states: the depersonalization people often show a marked imbalance of activity between the right and left hemispheres with the intellectual side dominating way more than normal, because the other side shows a lack of emotional/ intuitive development. Coincidentally, long-term practitioners of certain meditation techniques also report witnessing and they show the same dominance imballance, although the emotional/ intuitive side of the brain is not dysfunctional --the intellectual side is merely hyperactive. 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/
