A wonderful post (like the former), sweet words and fine sentiments. Thank you.
** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "David Fiske" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> 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 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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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