From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Archer Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 6:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Off-World's Kundulini Experience (Was "Dear Bevan and Dr. Hagelin")
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bronte Baxter Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 8:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Off-World's Kundulini Experience (Was "Dear Bevan and Dr. Hagelin") We do. I know the movement definition, and they fit it, with lots of individuality besides. Real dynamic people, with the silence of Self as background all the time. I'm not going to get into dissecting their inner workings, folks. These are mostly friends of mine. Don’t answer this now, because you’re over your quota, but after Friday night, please say a bit about these folks’ spiritual background – what sorts of teachers and practices they may have been involved with, if any. More on this: Have these half dozen “enlightened” people who live within a 15-mile radius of you reached the pinnacle of human evolution? Must be something in the water. To my understanding, there is a vast range of spiritual growth possible, and many awakenings along the way. People often experience a few of these and assume they’re enlightened, like grade-schoolers assuming they’re educated. Of course, they are, to a degree, but it would be a shame if they assumed that they knew all there was to know and stopped there. To extend the analogy, a few people manage to self-educate to the Ph.D. level, but it’s very rare. The vast majority will benefit from formal education. And in that, there will be a vast differences in quality between various teachers. Because some are duds doesn’t mean all are, nor that the teacher-student tradition on the whole is bogus. You might say that attaining enlightenment is different than becoming educated, because the latter involves developing relative skills and accumulating relative information, whereas enlightenment involves realizing what you already are. But the rarity of enlightenment, notwithstanding your locale, says to me that it doesn’t just “happen” to the average person, just as education doesn’t, and that disciplined instruction is advantageous for most. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.487 / Virus Database: 269.13.22/1013 - Release Date: 9/17/2007 1:29 PM
