Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sleep and TM (are youstill there RC?)

2011-07-13 Thread William Parkinson
Hello Bob and thank you for your kind words. I used to live in the Great White North. When I first started out to enter into a doctoral program I had two options open up to me. The first was at the University of Pennsylvania to study under Bob Kraft or to go to the University of Toronto to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sleep and TM (are youstill there RC?)

2011-07-13 Thread William Parkinson
Thank you so much for the information Bhairitu . I tried to trace back my own mantra within the Advaita-shakti tradition and found that it was recorded in Shankara's 'Saundaryalahari.' Perhaps I am just slow witted, but I don't believe in Ishta-devatas or any of these deities. For me it is sort

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sleep and TM (are youstill there RC?)

2011-07-13 Thread Bhairitu
You're welcome. You can probably find the beej mantras in a lot of texts. No one knows their origin for sure. My guru things they just evolved from tested sounds. As for the deities they are considered to be a personification of forces of nature. The scientific references were over the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sleep and TM (are youstill there RC?)

2011-07-13 Thread Bob Price
Bill, Thank you for your response. There were a number of things you shared in your posts, that piqued my interest, as to whether you had spent time in Canada and/or Africa. I'll touch on Canada and possibly another poster will bring you up to speed on my obsession with all things African. A

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sleep and TM (are youstill there RC?)

2011-07-13 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, William Parkinson ameradian2@... wrote: The only reason why I practice TM is because having tried other meditations, TM, for better or worse, seems to allow me to transcend in the quickest manner I have ever experienced. It happened in the first day or

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sleep and TM (are youstill there RC?)

2011-07-13 Thread seventhray1
I've got to wonder what is going on here. We've got another renunciate. First Robin and now Bill. I guess the promised land is not all milk and honey. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, William Parkinson ameradian2@... wrote: Thx so much XA. What you describe is the one thing I fear the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sleep and TM (are youstill there RC?)

2011-07-13 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 07/13/2011 12:17 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@ wrote: [...] You probably know that most brain wave research would say that deep sleep would be the delta state which is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sleep and TM (are youstill there RC?)

2011-07-13 Thread turquoiseb
What Bob said, Bill. Welcome, but watch your back. One thing I should suggest to you -- both on Fairfield Life and in real life -- is to not believe that someone is enlightened just because they claim to be. Going that route is likely to cost you money and heartbreak. For example, on this forum

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sleep and TM (are youstill there RC?)

2011-07-13 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: [...] The much-touted witnessing of advanced TMers is seen in normal humans all the time, but esp. in the elderly and people in pain. Big whoop. Derealization during pain isn't the same as witnessing during the waking state,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sleep and TM (are youstill there RC?)

2011-07-13 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: What Bob said, Bill. Welcome, but watch your back. One thing I should suggest to you -- both on Fairfield Life and in real life -- is to not believe that someone is enlightened just because they claim to be. Going that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sleep and TM (are youstill there RC?)

2011-07-13 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: Yo Lawson I wouldn't take MMY's words seriously. But I would. L.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sleep and TM (are youstill there RC?)

2011-07-13 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Yo Lawson I wouldn't take MMY's words seriously. But I would. L. But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we

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