--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > andrewcohen.org <http://www.wie.org/_e/ui/ac/ac-logo.gif> > > > > > Quote of the Week > > What Does Enlightenment Look Like? > > What is the relationship between higher states of consciousness and human > transformation? Or, to put it more bluntly: What is the relationship between > enlightenment and human behavior? It seems that over the last decade or two, > enlightenment has commonly been reduced to being nothing more or less than a > higher state experience, which is ultimately not that useful when it comes > to the nuts-and-bolts reality of our ever more complex human lives. For a > long time, I've been defining enlightenment as the experience of > consciousness beyond ego, and when we put the notion of enlightenment in an > evolutionary context, the question becomes, what does it actually look like > when real human beings evolve beyond ego and continue to develop, in our > world, in that new enlightened context, together? I believe that higher > state experiences, if they are to mean anything at all, must translate into > significant changes in all the important domains of human life. >
What does enlightenment "look like?" In the context of TM, it looks like the EEG and other physiological changes found in samadhi coexisting along with normal waking, dreaming and sleeping. That's a consequence of the definition of "englitenment" that Maharishi uses. In the context of how HE uses the term, it's just another altered state of consciousness amongst many.
