Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-05 Thread LEnglish5
I was merely pointing out that MMY's description of soma being consumed in the gut as part of the enlightenment process may not be invalid. WHAT is consuming the soma is another matter. Of course, a collection of 100 million nerve cells running along the 9 meter long GI tract is a bizarre

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-05 Thread Share Long
Thanks for the great posts on this topic, Lawson. Here's another article: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-18779997 On Friday, April 4, 2014 11:30 PM, lengli...@cox.net lengli...@cox.net wrote:   Actually, Maharishi's statement about soma, devas eating it in our gut, etc., is quite well

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-05 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/4/2014 11:51 PM, TurquoiseBee wrote: Lawson, do you not see that you are doing exactly what we've suggested the TM researchers are doing? That is, *assuming* that anything Maharishi said is true, and then finding any way possible to interpret data to make it appear true? Please explain to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread salyavin808
Respond intelligently to what, your comments on the LINK I posted about Soma? You didn't make any, you went on a meaningless ramble about TM translations as though they are different somehow from the ones everyone else reads. Look at the wiki article. Soma is drink made from a plant. Why the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 4/3/2014 10:08 AM, Share Long wrote: Theoretically they could even find soma in the blood. Maybe, but after all, the ancient Vedic rishis used to drink the soma but the recipe was lost thousands of years ago and the plant

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread Share Long
salyavin, is it possible that soma is both? Both something found in plants and in the gut of long term spiritual practitioners? On Friday, April 4, 2014 1:10 AM, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:   Respond intelligently to what, your comments on the LINK I posted about Soma? You

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread Share Long
Steve, I didn't know that about Communion, that some people think of it as cannabalism. I can see how they might think that. As for me, I've never been comfortable having some of the wine, which is allegedly become the blood of Christ. Maybe the early Christians morphed what Jesus did at the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread salyavin808
I couldn't begin to calculate the chances of a coincidence like that Share! The 9th mandala is about a drink made from plants, and it must have been a good one considering how much they go on about it. The idea of good digestion giving you good spiritual experiences is a given though,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread steve.sundur
Share, I think you can find all manner of opinions about communion. I just mentioned that as one comment I once heard. As rituals go,it seems okay to me. Is it hurting anyone? Not that I can see. Does it bring people some measure of comfort, or spiritual upliftment? It seems to.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread Michael Jackson
elevated, and go around like Buddhist monks, bare-footed and dressed in common robes. On Fri, 4/4/14, steve.sun...@yahoo.com steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread authfriend
No, the question of whether it's literal or symbolic/metaphorical/poetic applies to any translation, not just the one TM uses. I was unclear on that point, sorry. As to why Maharishi had us read it in translation, if you'll recall we were instructed not to pay any attention to the semantic

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/4/2014 1:09 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Soma is drink made from a plant. In fact, the Vedic soma was a decoction made from a combination of ingredients, one of which was an alkaloid substance - the amanita muscaria. Apparently the recipe for Vedic soma was lost due to the long lapse of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/4/2014 2:07 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Try some magic mushrooms. The use of substances is a ritual practice that is abundantly attested in the shamanic world as well as among some yogins, and in the Aryana Vedas. We know that Patanjali himself puts simples (ausadhi), together with samadhi,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/4/2014 6:36 AM, Share Long wrote: Both something found in plants and in the gut of long term spiritual practitioners? Good question, Share. The primary ingredient in TM's bio-chemical laboratory is probably seratonin. The substance has been shown, in scientific studies, to be connected

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Share, I think you can find all manner of opinions about communion. I just mentioned that as one comment I once heard. As rituals go,it seems okay to me. Is it hurting anyone? Not that I can see. Does it bring people

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/4/2014 7:04 AM, Share Long wrote: Maybe the early Christians morphed what Jesus did at the Last Supper to something more similar to what the pagans were doing. It's all about the sacrifice, bth pagan and later Semitic, then Christian. The greatest principle of Vedic thinkers was the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread Share Long
Richard, thank you for all the wonderful knowledge you're posting this morning. And I admit that I cringe at the word sacrifice. Can we substitute the word surrender? BTW, this morning my yogic flying had a wonderful devotional quality. That happens once in a while and I'm always grateful when

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread Share Long
Thank you for these beautiful points, Ann. Now I'll do the Libra thing and mention how ancient people would eat various body parts of slain enemies to ingest their courage, etc. Go figure! On Friday, April 4, 2014 9:05 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:   ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread Share Long
salyavin, I think it'll be fascinating when science can give us an indication of what might be meant by gods in this context and also by eating. BTW, I think soma has something to do with immortality so no wonder they sing its praises. On Friday, April 4, 2014 8:05 AM, salyavin808

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread emilymaenot
And yet, the word sacrifice bothers you. Share, in all your posts to Ann, you try to find a way to try and show that you are one upping her or, mostly, you work to throw dirty dish water or treat the essence of what she says with contempt (even if you acknowledge them, as you did here). But,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread Share Long
Emily, I am adding another point to what I think is a multi faceted and therefore fascinating topic. You completely misinterpret me here as I think you often do. On Friday, April 4, 2014 10:25 AM, emilymae...@yahoo.com emilymae...@yahoo.com wrote:   And yet, the word sacrifice bothers

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread emilymaenot
Just doing the Libra thing here, Share. Smile. You can't see yourself objectively; you don't know yourself as well as you think you do, imho. Have a good day. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Emily, I am adding another point to what I think is a multi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Thank you for these beautiful points, Ann. Now I'll do the Libra thing and mention how ancient people would eat various body parts of slain enemies to ingest their courage, etc. Go figure! Exactly my point. No one would

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread emilymaenot
Corrected... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emilymaenot@... wrote : And yet, the word sacrifice bothers you. Share, in all your posts to Ann, you try to find a way to try and show that you are one upping her or, mostly, you work to throw dirty dish water on her points or treat the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread emilymaenot
My apologies Share. I was just checking to see if my conscience was working. It is! I will refrain from posting to you. How was what you posted a Libra thang - did you mean that you were operating to balance? Was there a need for that? Rather, it was consistent with the overall theme of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread Michael Jackson
you only say that cause you never went to the Deep South and encountered any dirt eaters (also known as clay eaters) On Fri, 4/4/14, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread Share Long
Emily, I've heard that Libras like to show at least two opposite sides of an issue. And though I'm merely a Libra ascendent, I have that quality. As I said, the topic of humans and divinities ingesting one another is fascinating to me. Ingesting and tapping here (-: On Friday, April 4, 2014

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/4/2014 9:32 AM, Share Long wrote: And I admit that I cringe at the word sacrifice. Can we substitute the word surrender? The Vedic Aryans that came into India around 1500 BC were very fond of the caste system, the *sacrifice*, the rituals, and the secret mantras found in the Rig Veda.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread Share Long
Wonderful history, Richard and I love that: you're only gonna get as much enlightenment as you're going to get. It's extremely relaxing. And it's fascinating to me that the practice of outer sacrifice is somehow connected to the caste system. Probably a practical issue. Meaning that only the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread steve.sundur
@... mailto:steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, April 4, 2014, 12:25 PM Share

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread Michael Jackson
. On Fri, 4/4/14, steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, April 4, 2014, 12:25 PM

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/4/2014 1:26 PM, Share Long wrote: And it's fascinating to me that the practice of outer sacrifice is somehow connected to the caste system. It should be noted that the caste system came into India with the Sanskrit speakers, that probably originated in the the Caucasus. The Amanita

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread LEnglish5
The devvas are fundamental vibrations of consciousness. The gut has a highly complex nervous system all its own. While its not conscious in the same way our brains our, using Tononi's phi, it almost certainly ranks high as a conscious system. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread LEnglish5
95% of all serotonin is made in the Enteric System, the nervous system of the gut. It might well be that most of the soma, that substance or substances created by the nervous system to support enlightenment, is also made in the Enteric System. L

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-04 Thread TurquoiseBee
. From: lengli...@cox.net lengli...@cox.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 5, 2014 6:39 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods   The devvas are fundamental vibrations of consciousness. The gut has a highly complex

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread TurquoiseBee
...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2014 7:47 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods   Cultmania 101. Isolation, mind altering practises, culturing a sense of uniqueness and superiority through revelation of secret and privileged knowledge... it's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread salyavin808
.) From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2014 7:47 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods Cultmania 101. Isolation, mind altering practises, culturing a sense of uniqueness and superiority through

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Jackson
to hear from the TM teachers here to see if they had seen the tape and what they thought of it at the time they saw it. That's all. On Thu, 4/3/14, steve.sun...@yahoo.com steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Jackson
was a superstitious man and passed that crap onto his sycophants. I mean, anyone who would tell folk to run hide when a solar eclipse is in the offing? On Thu, 4/3/14, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Jackson
And thank you for giving your memory of this - another piece of info I had no idea of - that the TM teachers could and did buy these tapes. On Thu, 4/3/14, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread steve.sundur
seen the tape and what they thought of it at the time they saw it. That's all. On Thu, 4/3/14, steve.sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Jackson
to the Movement. I think its a very interesting bit of Movement history. On Thu, 4/3/14, steve.sun...@yahoo.com steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 11

[FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread authfriend
BTW, here's the transcript of the tape: http://minet.org/www.trancenet.net/secrets/soma/soma2.shtml http://minet.org/www.trancenet.net/secrets/soma/soma2.shtml Answering my own question below: It's definitely the Trancenet writer's image, not Maharishi's, as you'll see if you read the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread TurquoiseBee
by the TM organization. They were not. We had to pay for them. At least when I was teaching TM.  From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2014 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

[FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread dhamiltony2k5
What a bunch of manipulative honking you haters are doing against TM here. You are cherry-picking some 'god' comments and making your own assumptions just to make an argument. Reading the transcript, he's talking and using allegory to lay out an inquiry to make a scientific design. Taking

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : I just found it interesting - as I said I think, somehow this particular document had escaped my attention. I was told during the sidhi prep courses that we produce soma in the stomach and only if we have soma being produced can

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread awoelflebater
http://minet.org/www.trancenet.net/secrets/soma/index.shtml http://minet.org/www.trancenet.net/secrets/soma/index.shtml ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Its the ninth mandala actually, but it was never phrased so that I remember - also it is significant that M who

[FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : BTW, here's the transcript of the tape: http://minet.org/www.trancenet.net/secrets/soma/soma2.shtml http://minet.org/www.trancenet.net/secrets/soma/soma2.shtml Answering my own question below: It's definitely the Trancenet

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Jackson
: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 1:46 PM   What a bunch of manipulative honking you haters are doing against TM here. You are cherry-picking some 'god

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Jackson
...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 1:49 PM   ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Jackson
. On Thu, 4/3/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 1:46 PM   What

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread authfriend
Actually, as I recall, they were planning to do some studies to see whether soma could be detected. Whether they ever did them, with no result, or called them off, I don't know. You are hilarious! I recall someone on the sidhi preps asked something like that - a nurse I think she was and the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Share Long
Actually, Michael, his name is Doug not David. Just to help everyone keep track, etc. On Thu, 4/3/14, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Share Long
Ann, I think it would be pretty involved and costly for the TMO to perform endoscopies on hundreds of sidhas in order to have a valid study about soma in the stomach! For one thing, I've always been put under when I have mine done. On Thursday, April 3, 2014 8:49 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Share Long
Judy, I've gotten the impression over the years that the TMO prefers to do non invasive procedures for finding the physiological correlates of long term TM and TMSP. One non invasive avenue they could take with regards to soma in the stomach, is to test long term TMers for good digestion,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Share Long
Steve, one of the meta issues that fascinates me about all this is how in Catholicism we supposedly ingest the body and blood of Christ. What it suggests to me is something that the mythologist Joseph Campbell might notice, that in all cultures around the world, there's some notion of ingesting

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread TurquoiseBee
From: Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2014 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods   And then there's the whole issue of scientists' finding brain cells in the stomach

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread authfriend
Actually, they wouldn't have to do endoscopies on hundreds of sidhas. Why would you need that many? Remember, what they'd be looking for is an unfamiliar substance never before documented to exist in the human stomach. All you'd need would be a few samples of the substance. Then you'd have to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Share Long
@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2014 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods   And then there's the whole issue of scientists' finding brain cells in the stomach... Not a mystery at all. You are what you eat. :-) Return of the living Dead - BRAINS!!  

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Share Long
Right, Judy and that's another reason why the whole issue seems extremely challenging. Theoretically they could even find soma in the blood. But, as you say, it would have to be identified as soma, etc. As I mentioned in another post to you, I think it's more practical to make predictions about

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Share Long
. On Thu, 4/3/14, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 1:49 PM   ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Actually, as I recall, they were planning to do some studies to see whether soma could be detected. Whether they ever did them, with no result, or called them off, I don't know. You are hilarious! I recall someone on the sidhi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Share Long
it. That's all. On Thu, 4/3/14, steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 3:49 AM   You know Michael, I wish I knew more

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Ann, I think it would be pretty involved and costly for the TMO to perform endoscopies on hundreds of sidhas in order to have a valid study about soma in the stomach! For one thing, I've always been put under when I have mine

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread authfriend
I am, you may be surprised to learn, in 100 percent agreement with you and Doug on this. I'd add that IMO, Maharishi understood Life, the Universe, and Everything on the purely metaphysical level, the common denominator, as it were, of science and religion and every other area of human

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Share Long
Judy, this reminds me of when I was a really new TMer in Dec 1975 and Maharishi attended a physics conference at MIU and someone said, about the alleged connection between TM and physics: Maharishi, what if it turns out NOT to be true. And I'm paraphrasing what Maharishi said: then we will

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Jackson
: Thursday, April 3, 2014 7:47 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods  Cultmania 101. Isolation, mind altering practises, culturing a sense of uniqueness and superiority through revelation of secret and privileged knowledge... it's all there. The paranoid, controlling and utopianist

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread salyavin808
Indeed, and why bother? Anyone who has read the 9th Mandala of the Rig Veda will know it's a drink made from plant extracts. Soma (Sanskrit सोम sóma), or Haoma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haoma (Avestan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avestan), from Proto-Indo-Iranian

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Bhairitu
Somehow the post title reminds me of Reuben and the Jets. (Or maybe Soma and the Gods would make a good band name). So the vedic seers were meth heads? :-D On 04/03/2014 11:47 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Indeed, and why bother? Anyone who has read the 9th Mandala of the Rig Veda will know it's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread salyavin808
Must have been something excitable, what with all the trouble they gave the black skinned Rakshasas in the Golden Age... I think Soma and the Gods would make an excellent band name. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Somehow the post title reminds me of Reuben and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread authfriend
You mean, anyone who has read the Ninth Mandala in the translation TM uses will know that's how the Ninth Mandala in that translation describes soma. But they won't necessarily know to what degree that description is symbolic/poetic/metaphorical rather than literal, or even whether the original

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Jackson
Oh yeah! I had forgotten that all the demons in the vedas are said to be black skinned! That'll create controversy and sell more books and films! On Thu, 4/3/14, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread steve.sundur
@... mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 11:41 AM Am I missing something, because isn't that what

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread salyavin808
Are you for real? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : You mean, anyone who has read the Ninth Mandala in the translation TM uses will know that's how the Ninth Mandala in that translation describes soma. But they won't necessarily know to what degree that description

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread steve.sundur
You know Share, some people compare it to cannibalism. I don't. I don't see anything wrong with it. As rituals go, it seems as good a one as any. I don't know if it was corrupted along the way somehow. It's been a while since I've read the Bible, but supposedly that's the way it played out

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Jackson
didn't see M flee a room just because chairs were upended. On Thu, 4/3/14, steve.sun...@yahoo.com steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 9:10

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread steve.sundur
. On Thu, 4/3/14, awoelflebater@... awoelflebater@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 1:49 PM ---In FairfieldLife

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread steve.sundur
. On Thu, 4/3/14, steve.sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 3:49 AM

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/2/2014 10:49 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote: But do you really think they needed this to try to make a case of Hindu roots for TM? The roots of TM can be found in the ascetic tradition of the indigenous inhabitants of South India - based on the yoga tradition; the yogins and ascetics

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Jackson
: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 9:48 PM   If Unity Consciousness is a reality, if God Consiousness is reality, in my opinion

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread authfriend
Bit of a problem responding intelligently, eh, Salyavin? Are you for real? You mean, anyone who has read the Ninth Mandala in the translation TM uses will know that's how the Ninth Mandala in that translation describes soma. But they won't necessarily know to what degree that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread steve.sundur
the word came down to give 'em back to the Movement. I think its a very interesting bit of Movement history. On Thu, 4/3/14, steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods To: FairfieldLife

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread steve.sundur
] Re: Soma and the Gods To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 9:48 PM If Unity Consciousness is a reality, if God Consiousness is reality, in my opinion there would be some

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/3/2014 1:34 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: The whole IDEA of them is that these supposed gods and goddesses are so neurotic and so insecure that they'll respond to being praised by puny-ass humans praying to them and offering them fruit and hankies and large sums of cash. You probably

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/3/2014 6:04 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: That's what the governors who taught the courses told us and those would be Greg Palma, Walter Gibbons and Paul Potter (for those here who love to have sources quoted). Never pass up an opportunity to fink on your old friends if that can help

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/3/2014 6:41 AM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote: Evidently that is something the Vedas concern themselves with. The sacramental basis of the Vedic Religion was the preparation and consumption of a decoction obtained by mixing the juices of various psychoactive ingredients, one of which may

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/3/2014 8:03 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: TM teachers paid for pretty much *everything* they gave away at the TM centers or otherwise distributed or made available to meditators there. Tapes, promo materials, books, etc. Many people who never became TM teachers themselves seem to think that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Bhairitu
On 04/03/2014 03:20 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote: Michael aside from the philosophical question of we are enlightened, we just aren't aware of it, what I am speculating is that if there are states of enlightenment, and I believe there are, there are likely to be unique chemicals that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/3/2014 10:08 AM, Share Long wrote: Theoretically they could even find soma in the blood. Maybe, but after all, the ancient Vedic rishis used to drink the soma but the recipe was lost thousands of years ago and the plant does not grow in India. But, I think the point is that you only

[FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-02 Thread authfriend
The unforgettable image of ravening Gods jostling each other to feed at the stomachs of TMers around the world to get their share of the mythical Soma--is this Maharishi's image, or the image of the guy who wrote this essay, Michael? (I've read the transcript of this tape, by the way, so don't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-02 Thread steve.sundur
You know Michael, I wish I knew more about Soma, about the Vedas, about the Vedic Gods. But I don't. There are some who think it is all a bunch of jibberish. I think Barry may be in this camp, and I hope I am not misrepresenting him. But I do generally have respect for ancient traditions.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-02 Thread salyavin808
Cultmania 101. Isolation, mind altering practises, culturing a sense of uniqueness and superiority through revelation of secret and privileged knowledge... it's all there. The paranoid, controlling and utopianist leader is optional to cults but rather common. Soma and Xenu seem to be