--- In [email protected], gerbal88 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for taking the time to post this, Curtis. > > Hopefully it will help many people (here and elsewhere) and help keep > FFL aflote despite the tendency of she-who-cannot-be-named to try to > drag actual discussion down to that level of utter futility we all > sense. > > I do not know how to explain this more precisely, yet, but I sense in > TM the tendency for people to become total space cadets, whacked out > on what they call bliss, which I think is just the vacuity of the > meaninglessness of the mantra. > > I think that in TM one does not go, as the bubble diagram suggests, > to the finest level of thought, but rather to the furthest reaches of > daydreaming where there is neither dream nor any sense of orientation > (and certainly no mantra). > > This can be a real relief, especially when stressed, which is why we > daydream in the first place. > > But Mahesh has turned it into a life-style. When you get sufficiently > hooked on his next greatest thing, it is not that difficult to begin > to replace what used to be your own thinking with his whacko > nuttiness. > > How else do you explain a once respected scientist now touting bum > bouncing as a means to world peace! >
Actually, according to a friend of his from his undergrad days, he was discussing the possibility that QM would account for Yogic Flying while still an undergrad. > And, of course, the question presents itself: can you actually > implant a mentality that supplants the one you were born with? > What "mentality" is this? Enlightenment, in MMY's terms, is a state of consciousness. It's not a set of beliefs, behaviors, feelings, etc. It is doubtful that someone who is truely sociopathic can remain so once they are enlightened, however. 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/
