[FairfieldLife] Re: Vying for #1 Spiritual Experiences..

I guess if your Job sitting outside the Dome on the pavement scraping scabs off your legs with a piece of broken glass having an Throne of God experience nobody is going to believe you. Maharishi and I thought having a MEG machine would be a good idea , but John Hagelin thought is was to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vying for #1 Spiritual Experiences..

At least the meditating community is sympathetic to these consciousness experiences as ‘shifts of state’ of Being. Enlightenment. In the FF Coffee Haus satsanga there was chatting about this theme recently with someone practical and wise with this development who folks may turn to

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On the ‘sharing’ about ‘number one’ experiences, from the FF Coffee Haus satsanga.. “On the assembly on the long program, appreciating the experience of the finest relative, it is interesting, fascinating. They are devatas, it is interesting but it is very ordinary. It is just how it

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Sharing the number one experiences? Deluding the ignorant.. An answer from the FF meditator satsanga, a classical conservative meditator’s frank response: Deluding the ignorant publicizing spiritual experience is too much like ‘throwing pearls before swine’. Swine are fine but, cultivate and

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Sharing the number one experiences? Asking this question around in the Fairfield, Iowa Coffee Haus satsanga… A: Don’t promote the experiences, the critique too easily can get confused with someone saying “I had a drug trip like that”or, “they are crazy, dissociated”. Without context,

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Some casualty along the way to what is a cultural communal expectation for perfect health, ideal life, vastu perfection, and enlightenment... the expectations affect people differently. For some at the end of a life there has been lament, dismay and some depression that they failed in their

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advice from the internet: ..As for how one rates one's state of consciousness, my advice is to stay the f**k away from any such thinking. It becomes clear in time where you are, informed by consciousness itself; established in silence, seeing the world as yourself, or whatever. ---In

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There is some thought being given recently to publishing some of the ‘number one’ experiences such that people outside the Domes could have some insight as to what is going on inside. Maybe even inspire meditators to come to the collective meditation and meditate again. This ‘experience

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Briefly, according to state of experience, three categories used to discern level of ‘number one’ spiritual state are: “Madhuchhandas” ..Maduchandas is recorded as having seen the entire extent of the Veda. http://www.globalgoodnews.com/education-news-a.html?art=1178744947286297

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Another levitating Saint, relatively modern (died in 1903): Saint Gemma Galgani. Still waiting to hear about the TM "experiences". http://www.stgemmagalgani.com/2009/01/life-of-st-gemma-galgani.html http://www.stgemmagalgani.com/2009/01/life-of-st-gemma-galgani.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vying for #1 Spiritual Experiences..

Thx, so what was the experience? fyi: among all of the more than 200 claimed cases of Catholic levitators, there's not a single record of a public display. Witnesses to the such levitations spied on the Saints as they were in an ecstatic trace state. 'After returning to the ground, the

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For some the assembly format of sharing the number one meditational or spiritual experience also can serve a means of being seen in an otherwise mostly anonymous group (Top-down patriarchal). And of course of human nature this can roll over into being of a type of heady specialness for the ego

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The discernment of Number One Experiences generally gets programmed into three levels of experience as they are told and then commented on. Yeah, and that dang Joseph at Cupertino always was an attention getter trying to be special, a real pain in the ass in the monastery community.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Cupertino#/media/File:San_Giuseppe_da_Copertino_si_eleva_in_volo_alla_vista_della_Basilica_di_Loreto.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Cupertino#/media/File:San_Giuseppe_da_Copertino_si_eleva_in_volo_alla_vista_della_Basilica_di_Loreto.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vying for #1 Spiritual Experiences..

Hagelin's jyotish chart shows he has the Moon in the 7th house. Thus, his facial feature is rounded like the Moon. Nonetheless, the Moon shines too, although more noticeable at night. The Moon is also the 5th lord which aspects his first house, representing the body. As such, he has

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vying for #1 Spiritual Experiences..

Something quite fair to admire about the meditation Assembly is that like most other projects that Maharishi undertook he used the facility of the project to have scientists conduct science research in to the effects of meditation. From the beginning of the IAA that too has been going on

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vying for #1 Spiritual Experiences..

I couldn't find any shiny people, except for John Hagelin. He's pretty shiny. This caught my eye from 2008. http://www.invincibleamerica.org/emailing/2008_10_26.html http://www.invincibleamerica.org/emailing/2008_10_26.html ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vying for #1 Spiritual Experiences..

For some years a daily feature of the Invincible America Assembly meditation (IAA) in the Domes is to break mid-morning for a few minutes and have people share what came to be dubbed their ‘number one’ experience from their meditation practice or as result of the practice. These are self

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A numbering system is problematic given the large numbers of Traditions, each with its own set of priorities. An easy solution to the philosophical problem of "Awakening" vs relative experiences: simply erase the vs and insert "and". Problem solved. In early Jewish mysticism (100 BCE -