--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for your impressions. The language form she uses is clearly > meant to shift states of awareness. It would work better in a room > where you didn't have other entertainment options pulling at you, I > suspect. It is deadly on TV with a remote in my hand. But is does > seem to utilize some good hypnotic therapy techniques, so it doesn't > surprise me that people find it has value. Some of her sessions seem > like watching someone in therapy going through a process. Thank you so much for this observation, Curtis. I was very involved with Gangaji for several years, and still find myself processing the experience from time to time, just as I do my many years of involvement with the TMO. This is very insightful. I had been quite captivated by her for some time, but finally came to feel that she had a way of producing experiences in people which they took for "awakening". Of course, everyone has a different idea of what awakening is, and I do also wonder what Rick meant when he said people had awakened with her (and also what evidence there is for that awakening.) In any case, it seemed what Gangaji had experienced was transitory - like any experience that comes and goes. It seems to me that awakening, to be a truly meaningful shift, would entail a transition that is permanent. Gangaji always emphasized the need for "vigilance" -- that a person would have an "awakening" that they would then need to sustain through a process of vigilance. In other words, this awakening could occur and then be lost without effort to maintain it. The description of Gangaji's interactions as being hypnotic really seems to zero in on something. She speaks in a rather hynotic way and can be very charming (to some) and poetic. I think a lot of people become infatuated with her image. Well -- there's lots more percolating thanks to your remarks. Thanks! 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/
