--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 4, 2006, at 10:17 AM, new.morning wrote: > > > Some of this talk about "how wierd this is" and "what mood-making!" > > sounds like stale gossip from a DAR meeting -- discussing anyone not > > in their "cirlce". > > > > Where is the undboundedness of awareness, and freshness of vision, > > when one can look at something new (or uncovered) and simply say > > "interesting". > > > > Per the broadcast, I like the vedic recitation parts. And for me, I > > find Nader and Hagelin's talks much more on point and coherent than > > some of MMY's -- who is prone, IMO, to repetition and circular > > references. > > > > I found the talks to give a nice vision. Its sweet. Maybe it will not > > come to fruition. Maybe it will. Look back at it in 200 years. 1000 > > years. maybe it will all be dust. maybe it will be something. Possibly > > something of value to the world. > > > > Christianity became a world thing out of what I understand was a small > > chaotic group, floundering for several centuries. That is not to say > > that all floundering things become great. Few do. But small and > > floundering in early years does not disqualify it. > > > I think it already has. TM was a major catalyst for raising the > interest level for meditation period--TMers who went on to other > forms of meditation, people who heard all the TM marketing spin and > thought "maybe I should check out some form of meditation" or people > who just always stuck with TM. TM's major contribution to this world > may just simply be being "at the right place at the right time"--it > might not even be TM itself, but the catalysis it's promotion and > presence provided in collective awareness. In that sense maybe (as > someone once claimed the Bhrigu shastras stated) Mahesh Varma is a > minor avatar (1/16th of an avatar IIRC). Just a messenger, don't kill > him. And whether one likes TM as their own form of meditation or not > I think most meditators would acknowledge that mediation together in > groups is a good thing--another trend the TMO helped inject into > world awareness. It may just all be about nudging world awareness on > these two topics. >
You know Vaj, I wonder about the same thing when I listen to stuff like this http://www.theendofsuffering.org. Dr. Russell Targ, remote viewing instructor, writing about non-locality and non-duality, and Dr. Jim Hardt using advanced bio-feedback to assemble the global mind. Two nights in a row on late night Coast to Coast AM nationwide. JohnY 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
