--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Was that shift "enlightenment"? I don't know, as the dogmas of > enlightenment have never been of any interest to me. It's definitely > Waking Down's "second birth awakening", but that is a beginning, not a > final goal. > > Alex
That seems to be a mature approach. It ties to the highly misunderstood post on tradition and its value in providing internally consistant maps, defined terminology, appropriate developmental methods and validation approaches. While these elements are internally consistant within a tradition, they are not necessarily interoperable between traditions. Thus over-used terms like "enlightenment", while often meaningful within a particular tradition, becomes a focal point for misunderstanding, distortion, and charlatanism when used interoperably between traditons-- or worst, by ad-hoc promoters who borrow terms, but not their definitions, from many traditions, and make it up as they go along. "Jive to sell books", as one astute observer recently commented -- or to increase attendance at workshops, lectures or satsangs. It appears Wakng Down provides the four elements above: consistant maps, defined terminology, appropriate developmental methods and validation approaches. While I don't know very much about their methods, if Waking Down provides the above four internally consistent elements, it exemplfies a strong "tradition" in the sense meant in the prior post on that topic. The missing element would be time-tested -- across decades or centuries of aspirants. But "well begun is half done". :) And since "enlightenm ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
