Lurk, Rick and Curtis, Your comments all so kind. Thank you. "Above the fray". Well let me explain. I have spent a lot of time bemoaning all that I think is wrong or misguided. One can spiral down doing that. I have spent much time looking forward to an expected cull brought on by human foolishness.
However although I still embrace catastrophe as a means for change I have started to believe in a new paradigm. This is that there are 12 time lines of parallel realities i.e 12 futures for those here on earth now. This is more than just a wheat and a chaff division. Compatible energies will have a similar future. These 12 time lines seem destined to hive off soon. I take great comfort in the thought that I will soon no longer be sharing my world with incompatible energies. Therefore I get a warm feeling in my heart for my future and that leaves little room for bitching. There is SO much that is just not right for me here on earth now I could spend all day swearing. It seems better to think happily of the splitting away of those 12 time lines. Goodbye can be such a cheerful word sometimes don't you think? By the way some of these ideas came from www.opterra.com. I am on a forum there, for which one pays monthly. You might be surprised to know I was almost kicked off for being a subversive agent! All I did was point out to a charming poster who in alluding to unity consciousness described herself as a leaf floating on the ocean an image I said that implied duality and that the wave and ocean analogy was more philosophically correct. Courteous as I think I am it was construed as seeking a fight. From memories of how some folk on FFL behave you wouldn't last 10 seconds there. They are all generally in agreement and mostly always supportive of each other. The site has made me realize that someone can be highly intelligent, informed, intuitive and yet quite possibly be a little mad. However I mostly find the eccentric charming and my life has been greatly enriched by the odd. . What I also like about the 12 futures is that it is not a heaven/hell judgement. You just go where you are most suited and that seems a good solution. Moreover as energies for change flood our earth as they currently do, they provide stimulus for the hiving off. They boost what one focuses on or where one's heart is. As one's life is what one attends to, so also will be one's future. Is all this true? I don't know; life is so mysterious. Do I believe it? Perhaps and it helps me get through my day. I just don't recognize the world so many people seem to be living in as my world. If that is to be above the fray then I guess that is where I am. Any way I have enough of my own fray to deal with. I haven`t been on this site since Nov when I went on my round the world trip so I don't know if there have been more Maharishi dark revelations but I am aware of the earlier stories. Troubling I know. However, in his core, Maharishi has wanted to help and I think he has done so. He taught me 1) I could do nothing more fundamental to change the world than changing my awareness and taught me how to do that. 2) Knowledge is structured in consciousness. If I look at the facts the world provides this is hard to prove. But if I look at my personal world it seems valid for apart from some slips and blips I see a world of love. This morning I put some more of my large garden to bed. A frog hopped towards its winter bed under a big pile of mulch, from where it will emerge in the Spring to eat slugs. I greeted it with affection as a companero. Chickadees start their own sunflowers in the garden and in Fall eat the seeds. As they flit amongst the 8 foot tall plants I call to them `hello sweetheart'. .My well tended soil gives me wonderful vegetables and fruit. How can I not see love in all that balance and ripeness. So it depends on what you want to see. I was taught that when something of beauty is seen to love it for the earth as we know it is passing away. It is apparently vanishing in turmoil. That is one view; but that is the splitting off of the time lines. The world that some people inhabit is just not mine at all so why worry about them. They have their future and I have mine. As I think of my future in a world of love I get a delicious feeling in my heart. We have choices. We can yap angrily as life passes by or we can grab in by the handful and love it. I think Maharishi has done the latter. He has taken two huge handfuls of life. And once he took my hands for a while and that has made all the difference. Love, David www.esotericarts.org --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That was a sweet post, David. As much a reflection of the goodness of > your own heart as of any qualities Maharishi possesses, > > Yeah. That is what I felt. > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <groups@> wrote: > > > > That was a sweet post, David. As much a reflection of the goodness > of your > > own heart as of any qualities Maharishi possesses, although he > has/had an > > abundance of good ones too. > > > > > > on 10/29/06 11:37 AM, David Fiske at david.fiske@ wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Maharishi has been on mind recently. I have been thinking how much I > > > like him and what a pivotal role he played in my life. I last saw him > > > alone, probably in '74, on one of those European ATR courses. He had > > > been messing around with me, the then National Leader in South Africa, > > > as he was wont to do, giving contradictory messages and making me feel > > > unsettled as to my position and his confidence in me. I raised this > > > with him as he lay ready for sleep and said I was unsure of his love. > > > > > > He replied" my love for you was established when first we met" > > > > > > We me in 1962 (Hochgurgl). I had received word that my father was > > > dying in South Africa and I was uncertain about staying for the month. > > > Henry Nyburg organised for me to see him alone, right at the start of > > > the course. Maharishi took both my hands in a warm embrace and asked > > > about my father. It was a special moment for me and set the tone both > > > for the course, my first romance with the Absolute, and my subsequent > > > frequent interactions with Maharishi. > > > > > > My last direct contact, en route as an immigrant to Canada, was from a > > > phone booth on a Swiss Autobahn as I was leaving Seelisburg, having > > > been given the run around by Neil Patterson for videos and a machine > > > which never came because I had a moustache! Maharishi laughed heartily > > > about this and said I could have gone to Canada as their national > > > leader rather than as a bearded philosopher. My response was that > > > would have put a few noses out of joint. > > > > > > By then I was well on my way out from the organization having decided > > > amongst other things that if enlightenment meant anything it meant the > > > ability to be one's self as well as one's Self. > > > > > > So some 30 years later he still comes to mind and I still feel such > > > affection for him. He was a wonderful person to know and greatly > > > enriched my life. > > > > > > I do wonder how much of this comes from the Jungian projection one > > > tends to make on such figures and the reluctance to give up seeing > > > one's Soul in them. > > > > > > I read what people say of Muktananda. I never met him but from what I > > > read he was a first class rogue so I have none of their projections > > > which either leaves them permanently in love or furious about being > > > betrayed. > > > > > > So I am uncertain of this continuing love for Maharishi, my wish that > > > he makes a happy `transition', and that warm happy feeling I get when, > > > as now, I think of him and feel so grateful he was a part of life. > > > > > > Love, > > > David > > > www.esotericarts.org > > > > > > > > > > > > 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! 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