[FairfieldLife] Re: 'The Old Soul Age'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Old Soul Age BY PHILLIP WITTMEYER Very helpful system. 7 roles, 7 chief obstacles, 7 modes, 7 goals and 9 needs. Warrior is the most structured essence role, while artisan is the most fluid. I'm an artisan. We're the most creative and least grounded. We get balanced from structure. I found this easier and faster than astrology. The main character in Sling Blade exemplifies Infant Soul. Fairly new to this planet and human reality, little that can scare him. Gomer Pyle, another ficticious character, exemplifies the infant soul. When Sargent Carter is screaming at him, he's not phased. He can see Sgt. Carter's essence and loves him even though he's an ass. Jed Clampet and his family: infant souls. Contrasted with Mr. Driesdale, young... and Miss Hathaway, mature. Eddie Arnold in Green Acres, is a mature soul, who accidently mates with a young soul, and when they move to a rural area, they mingle with a lot of infant and baby souls. Baby souls can often make is cops or firemen... rare for them to succeed as doctors or lawyers. Infant souls are particularly strong working directly with plants and animals. They are attuned to nature. Often love to hunt... or in the cast of Ellie May, nurturin animals. Baby souls relate to safety and protection... a high percentage of fundamentalists are baby souls. Young souls are the most materialistic. Mafioso are early young warriars. Dying to get ahead materially and lacking the cognitive resources to compete fairly and legally. Creating Karma. It's just a system... Easy to learn. -MJF -MJF
[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's Guidelines, for Spiritual Progress
It's all about the Purity of the Teaching. If eclectic behaviour is tolerated, then it could get to the point where an introductory lecture on TM is coming from somebody who benefited from a variety of traditions, techniques, tools or teachers... and The Purity, at that point, could easily be watered down with a quotation from the course in miracles, or a reference to the I Ching. Also, if somebody was eclectic and they have their stuff together, you got no way to connect that togetherness with the one Effortless Technique. God forbid, what if somebody actually got enlightened as a result of multiple teachings? Then all of those influences would be validated. Not good. There aint no way to prove nothing unless we scare people into becoming robots. Will they get enlightened? No. So what? If people do get enlightened you gotta kick them out ASAP. They might say something conscious to people still chasing the carrot... bad influence. Enlightenment will destroy the purity, we gotta prevent that. MMY knew that people would say, If mantra mediation is so helpful, then please explain why India had so much poverty? The Answer: Yes, India has had mantra mediation for ages. At one time it was extremely effective. Yet, the purity was lost. You can get a mantra for free in India so it has no special value, etc. People in India are allowed to select their mantras, oftentimes with the guidence of a hindu priest. We will will stay with the Saraswati vibration for millions of repetitions. That is the purity. Promoting the Saraswati (grounding creativity) vibration and resist the rest of the pantheon. The typical poverty-stricken seeker in India has multiple teachers. Hinduism allows and encourages this. That's why they're messed up. The paranoia and non-tolorence comes from those concerns. Also, he's dealing with college graduates and smart people... the logic had to be tight and flawless. The problem is, that almost nobody has achieved enlightenment from three to four decades of running the Saraswati vibration. And there's no reversal of biological aging. It only took a few years of watching TM-sidhas age to dispell that fantasy. Diet and exercise, are obviously ten times more effective. I want somebody else to post about the million dollar course. I got the story from a friend of the Kaplans... they're biased with a particularly negative assessment of MMY. Here's the short version: You didn't miss anything. Even the accomodations were a bummer. The Kaplans and Ken Kastle have the perception that MMY selected the cheapest hotel in Holland. Less than one star. That was probably part of the point: you should be able to get comfortable anywhere, irregardless of conditions. Regarding enlightenment, MMY explained that it's simple: When you're feeling peaceful and content insider yourself, that's enlightenment. I got the impression that anybody who took this course was very disappointed... I assume that many were finally able to get a clue, and start detaching.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's Guidelines, for Spiritual Progress
Everyone else seems to get it. There IS no excuse for limiting a human being's right to explore spirituality in any form, and for making that exploration a crime punishable by banishment. In *every* instance in human history in which it has appeared it has been a mistake, and an instance of tyranny. Those who support and defend it are supporting and defending tyrants. End of story. Thanks Turk. The story has ended and we are in the early stages of the aftermath, with diverse points of view. MUM, with an all time high of 1200 students will keep the wheels turning. And the nephew should have $900 million cash to promote the TMO in India. Aftermath. Each year, some number of robots get sufficiently frustrated with the tyrany to throw in the towell... We're in the after time. Some things could develop, and the story could, over the next few decades gradually congeal as more of the leaders default. Once the die-hards from the '70s are all in their seventies, more disclosure will be presented, and a more complete picture will emerge. The Saraswati vibration does have an influence, and possibly... a huge benefit to the planet. We don't know. We can't measure this. We can only observe the well being of those who are sticking it out for there entire adult life, and perhaps with that, make some grounded assessments, or at least statistics. Kieth Wallace has been practicing 45+ years. If he had selected another set of tools, we don't know where he would be... could be more or less, in well being, and expanded awareness. Technology of Consciousness. That sound bite could infiltrate the mainstream by 2020, and if they ever choose to drop the mantra price to around $100 there could be another wave of interest in the future. Or things could fizzle out gradually, as people become conscious and self-reliant. We'll see. I really like the Guru Dev quote. It's affirming. It's the type of thing I like to hear from a spiritual teacher: To each, their own... it kicks ass. If indeed, MMY's behaviour was tyrannical, more disclosure of the particulars from reliable sources could be helpful to those contemplating a devotional path, with his system as the focus of their devotion. -MJF
[FairfieldLife] Integral Psych videos
Did you get a chance to see the videos I posted for you? That should give you some idea of how practical a model it is. It kept asking me to download the latest Real Player. I couldn't get it to play on my Dell quad-core system. I'll try it another computer. I'm eclectic... I find value in a broad variety of systems. Nothing beats living in the question. Question everything. I kept asking questions for decades. It looks like I just found new brainwashing to replace the old brainwashing... We require some programming to function. And we have to know that our thoughts and feelings correspond with awareness we're unwilling to have. You guys are wise to resist all dogmas. -MJF
[FairfieldLife] Maharishi The Special (was Re: Ring clarification)
I'm voting for gullibility, sorry. On my part, and on the part of everyone else here, too. People didn't get their energy and their money sucked from them, they gave it away. You guys (Curt/Turk)are half-way there. Here's what you're missing and what I was missing until 2001. You know that common theme/myth/archetype/story about the devil saying, hey, if you sign over your soul to me, I'll give you anything you wish: Great wealth, beauty, fame, you name it. They never explain the dymanics of what the devil does with your soul if you sign it to him. Negative beings, like Hitler, are oftentimes keenly interested in spiritual advancement. There is such a thing as evolving on a negative path. Orientation. You know all those gay guys that wanted to be normal, and tried so hard to be hetero? Well they couldn't overcome their orientation by just wishing or pretending a being can however, gradually change their their orientaton over a long period of time. And sometimes a shift can occur suddenly. The soul can choose to re- configure. The soul can cross the poles. In the myth, how do you suppose the devil benefits from accumulating souls? Ever thought about that? Do think it's just more fun to have more slaves? There are higher worlds on higher dimensions kinda like high- school is higher than grade-school, etc. Approximately half of the beings on levels beyond us have a positive orientation and half of the beings on levels beyond us have a negative orientation I'm voting for gullibility, sorry. On my part, and on the part of everyone else here, too. People didn't get their energy and their money sucked from them, they gave it away. Our willingness to be tricked, fooled, deceived and then abused. was partially a function of our childlike innocence. Here's a Peter Gabriel quote: I come to you, defences down, with the trust of a child. The whole dance that was unfolding within the TMO, was a co-mingling of two different styles of soul functioning: positive vs. negative orientation. We (the non-robots) with our positive orientation made the assumption that more intelligent and more evolved was also the equivalent to more positive. One of the potential, concievable benefits of switching orientations is a spiritual quickening, in the sense that high-school is more advanced than grade-school... MMY appealed to our lust for speedy advancement. A lot of deception and trickery was used, and here's the problem for him. Just like it's hard to get gay goes to go straight (or vice-versa) it's hard to get positively oriented folks to adapt a negative orientation. If you allow a spiritual predator to consume your being. you still have the option of changing your mind, and leaving. The predators know that, expect that, and anticipate that. Huxley is said to have gone to a negative world after dying however, he left after a reletively short time. A body is a meal sometimes, right? You can eat a cow. Did it ever occur to you that a soul can also be a meal? Bonding is happening everywhere. Molecules, stars, galaxies, black- holes. In our reality, we have all this merging through the reproductive process. As a discarnate, after dying, you will have other types of merging opportunities. 60 trillion cells make up one human body What we call a soul, is also refered to as a fragment of an entity. Have you ever met someone where it looked like your energy coming out of their chakras? That could've been an entity mate. The higher worlds with negative orientations engage in the process of soul fragments bonding together to form a larger more complete, as do the positively oriented worlds... it's just a question of doing it in a friendly or hostile fashion. Enlightened beings can and do lie. Maharishi does not meet the criteria of enlightenment that he outlined in SCI course. In CC, it's impossible to make mistakes. When he was smitten with Mia, and thought he had a chance of romance with her.. that was a mistake. She was not attracted to him, and he was not a romantic possibility for her. Anyone in CC or higher, by his own definition, would have enough cognitive functioning to pick up on that. So he wasn't enlightened according to his own definition. But his definitions are not realistic. Very advanced beings oftentimes lose 99.9% of their cognitive abilities when they're feeling their oats. It's real simple. If you have body, you can get horny. And in times of horniness, an IQ of 190 can drop to 90. Here's why Maharishi is creative genius: He was smart enough to deceive other super-smart folks. He used his time with Guru Dev to study the positive orientation what makes us tick. All of the issues we have with mating... and sex. There is a similar dynamic on higher realms with the process of soul fragments coming together to form
[FairfieldLife] Ring clarification.
This gentleman is a Swami. An American born in India, who returned at 16. Met MMY at 17, in '67. In '67, he lived in a cave with his Hindu Guru in Rishikesh. His Guru introduced him to MMY before Beatles noteriety. Dr. Ken Dimitrius Kastle www.kastledesigns.com Ken later switched to a female guru remained friends with the Rishikesh guy. Upon revisting the first Guru in '71 or '72... they both paid a visit to MMY. MMY instructed both the Guru, and my friend Ken who was now a swami in TM at no charge. And showed them both the diamond ring that had preveiously belonged to Guru Dev. At that time Dr Ken knew nothing about the history of this ring and I have no details The jewelry from the Kaplan letter is something other than a ring, and no diamond is mentioned. Ken saw the diamond ring in '71 or '72 and 30+ years later consulted the Kaplans when they were beginning to pull away. I'll ask Ken to clarify this.-MJF
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ring clarification.
He designed: http://www.hob.com/venues/clubvenues/lasvegas/foundationroom.asp What's called the Foundation... and also called Buddha Room. Steve Wynn saw this, and invited him to work on the Wynn Hotel, a five star joint I've never seen... really doesn't interest me. The guy is a real designer with a PhD in Vastu Vidya Shastra. Also studied Feng Shei in China 30 years ago before it became popular. Regarding the hecklers: Are you guys still active in the TMO? Still practicing TM and TM-Sidhi program after 30 years? If so, how's it workin' for ya? Did you at least make it to CC or GC? -MJF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: This is either a brilliant lampooning of originality, or one of the shoddier website's I've encountered. For an interior designer, his project gallery contains an array of amateurish, poorly photographed furniture, suffering from a compete absence of the very service Dr. Kastle claims to offer - taste. Liberace on Temple hash. or Trust fund baby goes to India and buys a bunch of shit for her dorm room. The cowboy hat and clothes are a nice touch, too. :-) I think ya gotta bear in mind that he practices in Las Vegas, so his clients are probably ultra- dumb Dolly Parton wannabees who had a good night at the tables and think this stuff is cool. There is a chandelier in one of those photos that would be considered too tasteless for the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, if anyone has ever been there. (For those who haven't, it's pretty much a monument to kitch, a museum to bad taste.)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ring clarification.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Regarding the hecklers: Are you guys still active in the TMO? Still practicing TM and TM-Sidhi program after 30 years? If so, how's it workin' for ya? Yeah Turq and I are heavily involved with the movement and through 30 plus years of practicing Maharishi's programs we have both achieved the highest state of Brahman consciousness. Please note that Curtis specifies the highest state of Brahman Consciousness here. Maharishi's version was low-rent, merely the first step in a long *series* of levels of BC, of which Maharishi knew only the first, which in the original Sanskrit is referred to as 'puny-ass beginner's realization. We're WAY beyond that. That's merely the first level. The people in 12th-level BC can walk on water; we can walk on ghee and sesame oil. This state allow us to cognize the principles of where to put shit Veda And you might want to be thankful that Curtis chose not to practice this advanced knowledge on you, and tell you where to put something, only to find that it's a loose fit. :-) Just jivin' on you, dude. You're getting all serious about something that isn't. Taste IS subjective, but I suspect that this guy's designs would be considered tasteless in every loka of creation. He might have all sorts of other stuff going for him, but interior design on an aesthetic level just ain't one of them. so we are well versed in the skills necessary to put a gold colored pillow on a rose colored sofa trimmed in gold. The Liberace tigerskin cover for the bed is optional. The supplier guarantees that it died a natural death, just like Maharishi's deerskin. :-) My favorite line: a real designer with a PhD in Vastu Vidya Shastra I've got a PHD in Magical Invisible Elf studies. (and I was into Elves before J.R.R. Tolkien's Trilogy made it cool.) In a previous life, Curtis actually designed the real Elf palaces in Middle Earth. And they didn't have pink walls and glass chandeliers from K-mart. Again, we're just messin' wit ya, because this guy makes such an easy target. His act is low rent, and we tend to wail on low rent for fun. It doesn't have *anything* to do with trying to discredit your ring story of anything. I care less about that than I care about this guy's cowboy hat. Sounds like you're sayin' that you're not one (or two) of the robots. I'm so new to this site, I can't even tell if the robots are on here somebody said that this site is regarded as going off the program etc. Glad to hear you don't care about the cowboy hat. Btw, Las Vegas is the southwest Cowboy hat is classic CW attire. I don't suppose you guys took the million dollar course, some five years ago... in Holland. The deal was: You pay MMY one million. He give's you enlightenment. It might's been six years ago. The Kaplan Bros. wanted to give MMY one more chance. They both took the course and brought along Dr. Ken. Ken is yogi and a Swami an American born in India. He speaks several indian languages, and he speaks english like an American. And he's Hindu. They invited him to attend on their nickle. He agreed. I wasn't there. Got the story from Dr. Ken. Anybody out there want to hear this story? Or you already know everything since you achieved Brahmin Consciousness, 12th stage. -MJF Btw, do they have a way to filter this site from the MUM campus?I'm not interested in downgrading the potential positive experiences of the newbies, and I plan to stop posting soon. The web-site for MUM looks great. These people can and should get a very decent education. Everybody's just gotta follow their own inner knowing, as best they can.
[FairfieldLife] Pleased to discover the Paul Mason site...
The Guru Dev Biography page has translations from Guru Dev's QA sessions, translated of course: QA #69: Guru Dev: 'Having taken one guru, another you should not' - this is all rubbish talk and is obstructive to the welfare. Some people say that having taken one guru you should not make another. But this doctrine is not of the shaastra, this is [just] minds imagination. The guru is gone to for happiness. Up until when bhagavaad (God) is gained - up until then you can go and change guru. So then we haven't seen any guru-bhakta (devotee) fearful of shifting, always studying in the very same class of the very same guru. Actually, to transfer class and to transfer guru is natural. It is not disrespectful to the former guru, actually respect has been done the guru, but in future you get the promise of discipleship of fresh gurus. Vyasa's son Shukadeva ji acquired knowledge from his own father, then he gained knowledge from Shankara ji and also gained knowledge from Narada ji. In the end he took instruction from Janaka ji. Therefore, 'Having taken one guru, another you should not' - this is all rubbish talk and is obstructive to the welfare. You should not ruin your life with this kind of empty words. Many lives have been caused to live in births, now then be alert to attain the human birth. Understanding the method of upaasanaa (worship) from higher and higher gurus, having been doing actions according to Veda shaastra, be doing chanting and puja of Bhagavan, then it is certain you will cross the sea of saMsaara (worldly existence). [Shri Shankaracharya UpadeshAmrita kaNa 69 of 108] translation - Paul Mason © 2006, 2007 Wow that's refreshing. Best thing I've been turned on to from two or three days perusing this site. MMY either suppressed or was unaware of 90% of what Guru Dev taught. (In the voice of SNL guy) And that's okay Being eclectic... eat from many tables... if you taste something wonderful, ask for the recipe that's what a positive teacher will encourage. Another teacher who knew of MMY summed it up: In this life, he came here to deal with the issue of self-agrandizement. So maybe, we've all learned vicariously to whatever extent we enabled that or participated in that dynamic. It's a worthwhile issue to exhaust and transcend. I was 16 when I got in... 30 when I left. Now I'm 49. MMY dying has accelerated some final letting go. I don't mean to sound bitter, or sound like a complainer. Happy to reconnect with intelligent seekers. Happy to read translations of Guru Dev. -MJF
[FairfieldLife] Re: 250 More Vedic Pandits Arriving
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re-reading Earl Kaplan's letter, which has been the subject of some discussion here recently, I was struck by his confident prediction that There are no pundits and there will never be a group coming over to the U.S. Wrong, of course. Makes you wonder what else Earl might have been wrong about, doesn't it? Earl Kaplan was frustrated about promises reqarding how money would be applied toward technology of consciousness that would result in world peace. Most of the funds he donated... like 99% were simply put in off-shore accounts( according to his investigation)in Mahesh's real name. He was disappointed, indignant and shocked. I think his assessment represents a lot of exageration. Obiously, TM had huge benefits for tens of thousands... perhaps hundreds of thousands. Earl is saying that TM is no better than Herbert Benson's technique of repeating 'one' as a mantra and he's saying that people are getting brainwashed by a negative hierarchy of astral beings, etc. etc. He's not the first to have this assessment. All we can do is look at the health and well being of the long term practitioners. I visited Fairfield for two days in 2000 some of the 20 year sidhas looked ok for their age Some looked well let's just say they looked they've been... using the exact same technology of consciousness for more than a decade too long. Back to Earl and David. In exchange for the tens of millions donated, they did get one thing: they became insiders... MMY was candid with then the way he was candid with Charlie Lutes and others he considered to be his friend. MMY shot straight with Earl when he explained the dilema of following thru on the promise of assembling pundits to chant vedas and improve the world... if it failed, then he would be forever discredited. That's what Earl was saying when he predicted their would never be a group coming to the US he was saying that MMY would do whatever it takes to avoid losing face. If he only added that it won't happen while MMY is alive... then he would've been acurate. Actually, MMY either coined the phrase, technology of conscious... or popularized it within his sphere of influence... and overall, he will go down in history a real philosopher... pursuing social experiments, that had noticable effects. Like I said in my first post: White Album. Proof is in the pudding. The previous three albums were also great... it's just that we know some of these terrific songs on the White Album were a product of retreat in Rishikesh. The quality of these songs is through the roof. And TM helped. The retreat helped. I knew that Sexy Sady was about MMY. I didn't care... at age 18... I made the assumption that TM helped the Beatles take their music to the next level. Same eith Eastwood, Burette, ReynoldsDonavan might be the exception his talent might've been greater prior to being initiated. Same with Brian Wilson. LSD was a real problem in '68. LSD ruined Syd Barret's carreer. So we needed a natural alternative to psychedelic drugs in '68 - '70. What MMY contributed in this regard will make the history books. Hendrix and Morrison were probably too self-destructive to be saved with a mental technique however, the typical hippie was just interested in alternatives to the anti-conscious bs that came to a head with Vietnam... and assinations... and CIA...and corporate greed. What he achieved from a marketing standpoint deserves to be studied and admired in Harvard Business School. On the other hand, 125,000 repetitions is all you should ever need from one mantra. 125,000 repetitions is enough to get the entire physiology resonating with the sound of that mantra. I knew there was a problem when my friends who saved their pennies to get the bliss technique for $700 told me they were shocked and dismayed to get instructed in a technique they had already been doing on their own. Intuitively, I knew that I was already doing it, too... I just picked up telapathicly what the technique was... and I'm thinking, yea, I play with that. So that helped me to start detaching. And at that point, I would be reluctant to trust MMY with anything ever... not anything that costs money, anyway. $400 to add a syllable to my mantra? He pushed me away with this behaviour. And he lost credibility. I had no idea he was socking money away in secret personal accounts until Dr. Castle told me about his interaction with the Kaplans. I got that information in 2004, 15 years after I left the TMO. Socking away a few million no biggie. socking away 900 million is just plain bizarre. Aparently this site is 90% guys. in their late fifties, and early sixties who are split on the subject of this technology of consciousness being extremely beneficial to the world or marginally
[FairfieldLife] Re: Here's the best explanation of negative behaviour from highly evolved beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael James Flatley untilbeyond@ wrote: I left in '89 I began detatching in 1980 on a 80-day WPA. You sound like a very decisive person. How long do you look at a menu before you decide to order? How long does it take you to go to bed at night after you have the initial inclination? How long does it take you to use the bathroom, after you have that initial urge to go? Yes I was slow to leave. MIU was a good fit at 19. I made my college friends and bonded with the community, got my first home, etc. The networking with other eclectic types (not the robots) introduced me to a lot of areas that I still find helpful. I was introduced to holistic medicine by an MIU friend in '79. Took workshops off campus in '81. My best compliment to MMY is that his charisma and practical philosohpy created a magnet, drawing seekers together. Entire families exist from all these various TTC courses and other gatherings, and especially MIU. I have very fond momories of the community. What's your real point? That I'm a retard for continuing to trust MMY after I had my doubts? Is that your real point? Isn't that what we all did? -MJF
[FairfieldLife] Here's the best explanation of negative behaviour from highly evolved beings.
What hooked me in the '70s was community of seekers I met at my center and then at my first residence course at MIU, summer of '76. I understand some things now, and accept responsibility for my choices of the past. I discovered the writing of Michael Topper about eight years ago... He is able to explain how higher beings have twe distinct avenues of development. The negatives use trickery and deception and competition. The positives, STO, service to others take a friendly approach. Here's and excerpt from http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/stalking.htm The consciousness of that being is literally fed and magnified by the number and relative strength of the subordinate souls who have been voluntarily subsumed to the network. The greater the development of the psychic potentials of the individual who has been co-opted, the more energy he contributes to the whole system. The more psychic energy available to the Commander of the negative soul hierarchy, the greater his effective power to co-opt even more potent and more difficult to capture souls. The contributions of consciousness consist effectively of the energy a soul would otherwise utilize to encompass objective knowledge. Each time they choose a lie over the effort required to dig down to the truth, or the effort required to adjust their own psyche to adapt to Truth, that love energy is effectively transferred to the individual who is producing the lie in which they are believing without effort on their part to ascertain its truth for themselves. Since the flow of contributions is a vertically-hierarchic flow, it may be seen that development of the mechanical psychic food pump - the opening and development of the vital-psychic powers of the field troops - contributes energy-sums upwardly to the cortical station occupied by the Commander, and serve to literally amplify the Intelligence, the effective Presence of Wisdom (negatively influenced in this case). The use of chemicals to achieve higher states of awareness, especially those related to the Pineal gland - the outflow valve, are emphasized in the teachings of the negative hierarchy. The subordinates of the negative hierarchy are all connected like tiers of an immense structure, functioning as regimented extensions and mind/body parts - organs and processes serving the negative agenda from their respective levels - of the Overarching Apex, the Eye of the Pyramid. The beings at the different tiers do not perceive the object of the Ultimate Objective because it is a characteristic of the Negative hierarchy to deliberately mask and distort that which is higher and more comprehensive from that which is lower and more specialized. In the positive realms, it is more intrinsically possible for the lower levels to perceive the objective and functions of the higher levels with a minimum of distortion because of the characteristic of the Positive realms to share and exchange rather than producing a one way channel of energies to the top, so to say. From MJF: this helped me a lot: http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/stalking.htm Topper got some of his understanding from The Ra Material, a series of five books published in the early '80s. Laura Knight does a great job of summarizing Topper's explanations. Brilliant work. When I discovered Topper and Knight, I didn't even think too much about MMY. I was looking at the big picture, and had other concerns at the time. More recently, I wondered if MMY is still alive, and just found out he passed away. That's what got me thinking about the absurdity of of hording almost one billion in cash accounts and not doing anything useful with it accept passing it on to a nephew. I find that bizarre, even for a negatively oriented high-level master. Btw, David gave his email address at the end of his letter, posted on this site's files. -MJF
[FairfieldLife] Re: Here's the best explanation of negative behaviour from highly evolved beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems like you traded in one magical fantasy worldview for another man. Maybe Maharishi was just a man with a lot of ambition instead of a negatively oriented high-level master. It may be that there aren't any masters who know what is going on here. Would that be so bad really? All of us knocking around earth till our bodies give out without perfect knowledge or enlightenment? Do you have any hobbies? That represents my highest teaching. Get a hobby. It can be very relaxing and will help you meet some non-spiritual seeker friends. Music has been my hobby since childhood. I also own a healing arts company with a staff of 20. Networking in Fairfield introduced me to lots of great stuff that I still pursue. The Topper/knight reading just facilitated a paradigm shift. I had (in 2001)already been away from TMO for 12 years, and MMY behaviour was not a concern in 2001 when I discovered this essay. I share it now becuase it provides a more believable version of what Kaplan attempted to explain. I found out MMY died two days ago. That's why I'm here. The fact it took me six months to hear this news should indicate some detachment. I'm here processsing... and expressing curiousity about how the organization might change (successor, inheritance, etc.) now that the founder is gone. I left in '89 I began detatching in 1980 on a 80-day WPA. I was 22. I did the course to see if I could get a breakthough with yogic flying. The video-tapes selected were awful. Byron P Rigby and Jeffery Clemons... I realized I was wasting my time, listining to nothing. I was told that MMY selected the videos for us to watch. That was the begining of my losing interest in TMO, and losing the willingness to trust him. I stayed on becuase of the communtity. I disliked MMY by 1980. I liked Fairfield. I usually fell asleep in the dome after 5 min., woke up for 5 min of flying sutra, then fell back asleep. I agree about MMY having a lot of ambition. That's like saying cats have a lot of fur. Clearly the insight that helped me will not be of use to you. That's fine. For some folks here, it might be helpful to know that enlightened beings can still have a negative orientation. MMY has exemplified this as well is it can possibly be exemplified. I have peace with it now. 25 years ago, I worked on the false assumptiion that enlightenment would include kindness Now I see a broader picture, more inclusive. Curt, I'm glad you also have a hobby. Best wishes, -MJF Btw --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael James Flatley untilbeyond@ wrote: What hooked me in the '70s was community of seekers I met at my center and then at my first residence course at MIU, summer of '76. I understand some things now, and accept responsibility for my choices of the past. I discovered the writing of Michael Topper about eight years ago... He is able to explain how higher beings have twe distinct avenues of development. The negatives use trickery and deception and competition. The positives, STO, service to others take a friendly approach. Here's and excerpt from http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/stalking.htm The consciousness of that being is literally fed and magnified by the number and relative strength of the subordinate souls who have been voluntarily subsumed to the network. The greater the development of the psychic potentials of the individual who has been co-opted, the more energy he contributes to the whole system. The more psychic energy available to the Commander of the negative soul hierarchy, the greater his effective power to co-opt even more potent and more difficult to capture souls. The contributions of consciousness consist effectively of the energy a soul would otherwise utilize to encompass objective knowledge. Each time they choose a lie over the effort required to dig down to the truth, or the effort required to adjust their own psyche to adapt to Truth, that love energy is effectively transferred to the individual who is producing the lie in which they are believing without effort on their part to ascertain its truth for themselves. Since the flow of contributions is a vertically-hierarchic flow, it may be seen that development of the mechanical psychic food pump - the opening and development of the vital-psychic powers of the field troops - contributes energy-sums upwardly to the cortical station occupied by the Commander, and serve to literally amplify the Intelligence, the effective Presence of Wisdom (negatively influenced in this case). The use of chemicals to achieve higher states of awareness, especially those related to the Pineal gland - the outflow valve, are emphasized in the teachings of the negative hierarchy
[FairfieldLife] What's happening to the $3Billion empire?
I just joined this site. Lived in Fairfield from '78 - -'89. I understand MMY had only one relative, a nephew. Is the nephew the successor to the organization, and inheritor to the $900 million cash stashed away in Swiss accounts? Did Bevin Morris inherit anything? Whatever happened to Greg and Georgina? What about Jeffrey Clemons and Byron P. Rigby? I could never figure out why it was so important to Maharishi to have vast amounts of cash in Swiss accounts into his eighties it was obvious he was near the end of his life... why not do something brilliant with the money? Is this not a mystery to anyone who knew this man well, and knew how hard he strived to accumulate massive sums of cash? I checked the web-site for MUM to see if the school still exists. I see that it does still exist. The web-site is very professional, and the programs look good do they still have enrollment at 500? The $900,000,000 USD in Swiss banks would be enough to provide free tuition to thousands of students for decades. I also learned that MMY treasured the diamond ring from Guru Dev. This is strange: Guru Dev never gave him the ring. The ring was left on Guru Dev's corpse when the casket was lowered into the Ganges. MMY dove into the river, almost immediately to open the casket and remove the diamond ring from Guru Dev's finger. Aparently, he figured that somebody would rob the grave eventually, it might as well be him. He loved the ring. He loved Guru Dev. Clearly, he wished to improve the world. Clearly, meditation was beneficial to hippies. Along with short hair and conservative attire. The White Album is a great album composed mostly in Rishikesh. Getting sucked into a cult for more than a decade? Well, we make the best choices we can given our consciousness at the time. I noticed that Sidhas were not building more awareness. A decade of Golden Dome attendence was not reversing the biological aging. And people were giving too much money to Maharishi who was already extremely wealthy. Something just wasn't right... and I was ready for something completely different. I am grateful to have made wonderful friends, and I miss these people. I would love to see more consciousness in the world. I still pursue consciousness. I'm posting here to inquire about the possibility of having something conscious done with the three billion dollar empire. Bevin, if you read this, I would like to hear from you. You're in a position to disclose a lot of truth, and possibly shed some light on how everything started getting cooky when the origonal board of trusties were dismissed. The good guys were replaced with robots so that a portion of our tuition money could be diverted into the swiss bank accounts. I know you know this. Why doesn't it bother you? Bevin, did you at least inherite a couple million? if not, you sold your soul for the price of spinach. And that should bother you. God Bless All... JGD, MJF
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Diamond Ring
Source: Kaplan brothers, David and Earl. Maharishi admitted to them. Also: Dr Ken Castle
[FairfieldLife] Diamond ring clarification.
Okay, I put two things together: MMY admitting to Earl Kaplan that he took the ring of Guru Dev after he was dead(1) and MMY diving onto the Ganges after the coffin dropped(2.) I made an assumption about the timing that is aparently inaccurate. I recant the part about doing this under water. Everyone knew he dove in the river to visit the coffin under the impression that his devotion was so intense that he was seeking another minute of darshan or whatever. When it was explained to me about the ring, I put those two things together. And honestly, I don't know the details...maybe the devotees gathered around to have a conversation about what to do with the handful of remaining valubles, and maybe they took a vote, or drew straws to determine who would receive the ring. Maybe Guru Dev told everybody prior to passing that the ring should go to Mahesh. The story is incomplete, so just dismiss it until you see a post from Earl, David, or Dr. Castle. Some of these details are known beucase some of MMY's peers from 1953 are still alive. Earl Kaplan questioned MMY about the ring. And all he said was that yes, he took the ring from the dead body. Dr. Ken Dimitrius Castle knows more about this he worked with the Kaplans at a time when they were begining to lose interet in having a relationship with MMY. Castle also met MMY in 1967, and later in '72, and was instructed for free in MMY's Rishikesh basement. MMY was a friend of Castle's teacher. Castle had a very positive assessment of MMY until he learned about he issue of hording large sums of money, and asking the Kaplans and other rich people to take a course where they each pay one million dollars, in exchange for enlightenment. That's another story. Castle also told me that the Kaplans each paid one million USD to initiated personally by MMY. When I asked him why MMY's personality spiraled downwardly, he speculated that he took on the negative karma of the rich people who were paying him so much. -MJF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BillyG wrote: I believe Guru Dev was buried in concrete before being lowered into the Ganges anyway... Yes, Billy, Michael has posted one of the most outrageous posts I've read here in years: Marshy loaded the Guru Dev's body onto a flat car and then rode the rails all the way back to Kashi, with a diamond ring on the Guru Dev's finger all the way - a trip that took over nine hours. Then, the Marshy, in front of what, 10,000 people, dives into the Ganges and swims to the bottom, pries open the lid of a concrete coffin, rips the ring off the Guru Dev's finger, and then comes to the top with his hand outstretched, and tells the crowd that he's got the ring and now he will buy hisself a what, a bungalow in the Upper Kashi?
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Letter to My Former Guru...the Maharishi
Are there woman on this site who've been seduced or hit on by MMY?
[FairfieldLife] Quote from Earl Kaplan on MMY stealing Jewelry from his master's funeral
Please read the letters from Earl and David in the Files Section: Under: TMO, the Odd side. Here's a portion of Earl's letter: During the funeral he then went back to Jyotir Math and stole the most powerful spiritual artifact Guru Dev had created, a gold and jeweled Shri Yantra. Mahesh, after traveling throughout India, found a man who could activate the outer portions of the Shri Yantra. This gave Mahesh certain occult powers and control over certain astral beings. Mahesh then created a meditation technique and certain mantras that would help people blank their minds. In this blank state (which has nothing to do with transcendence that is talked about in the yoga sutras) these astral beings would brainwash these meditators into certain beliefs and certain actions. In addition, Mahesh would put blocks on people's nervous systems to block their Kundalini from firing and to siphon off their energy. Now I know this sounds pretty wild but think about it for a while. Why do so many meditators have such a dazed and confused look about them? Why do meditators find it so hard to focus? Why do most people who have been in the movement for thirty years admit that their best experiences in TM were in the seventies and since then meditations have been going downhill? Why are so many people asleep in the dome? Why do you need to lie down and rest 10-30 minutes after you have meditated? Why is there so much unstressing? Why are so many meditators so sensitive? They have to go to sleep on time. They can't watch movies; they have to be careful about their diet. They can't stand loud noises. They get tired in the middle of the day. It is not for the reasons you have been told. It is not because you are experiencing a refinement of the nervous system. Your physiology is getting weaker. It is because the process of TM is sucking you very life energy out of you. After you meditate in the dome you have to lie down just to recover. When you do proper spiritual practice as discussed in the yoga sutras (and which I have studied), you jest need a minute or two to regain an outward direction and then you can get on with your activity with a very clear mind and very good energy. 3. TM is not really a spiritual practice. It does give good rest to a lot of people who lead busy lives, but it does not necessarily rejuvenate the physiology. To understand this point you have to start to read the spiritual texts. You have to understand the yoga sutras and you have to study the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the major treatise on Hatha Yoga. Many older TM meditators (from the seventies) started TM and were interested in getting enlightened. They were interested in spiritual evolution. Mahesh with his practice and teaching has done an amazing thing. He has diverted the focus and efforts of a large group of spiritual seekers and made it so impossible for them to have spiritual progress that most of them have really lost interest in the idea of getting enlightened. This was one of Mahesh's true purposes in teaching TM (his other two being to make billions of dollars and suck energy from his followers). He has succeeded very well. In studying the basic Hindu texts and various other Tantric texts, I have come to understand that spiritual evolution is not a complicated process. The Hatha Yoga Pradipika talks about eh eight limbs of yoga. The first two, Yama and Niyama are really about living a good life. That is the basis for spiritual evolution. You live a loving, purposeful life. You are directed in your activity, you look after your family and friends, and you do good. In terms of spiritual practice, you have a balance of proper asana positions, pranayama techniques, hand mudras (which enliven certain brain centers) and meditation practice to bring about a holistic growth. The whole point of these practices is to enliven or wake up your kundalini shakti. This term is basic to any discussion of spiritual evolution. Every person has this latent energy in them referred to as kundalini (not creative intelligence, please!). This energy, which lays dormant in the lower chakra, needs to be awakened. It needs to travel up the sushumna enlivening the various charkas until it travels to the crown chakra and reunites with Shiva (pure consciousness). This is the real experience of unity, the reuniting of Shiva and Shakti. It is an experience beyond space and time. It is not the experience of silence moving into silence that the million dollar course participants and Mahesh talk about. It is the genuine spiritual experience discussed in all the scriptures of eternal bliss consciousness. These two guys did a lot of research, purely out of seeking truth. Read the letters posted by David and Earl on this site. I don't believe there investigation was based upon some vendetta. They were simply puzzled
