Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-31 Thread Vaj
On Jul 30, 2007, at 3:36 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Him: No, I don't have time to clarify my position right now but you might remember that I don't doubt the notion of continuous witnessing (in fact, I've had very long

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-31 Thread Vaj
Thanks for your thoughtful and poignant post New Morn: On Jul 30, 2007, at 10:07 PM, new.morning wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I have found as long as I am claiming C.C., G.C., or U.C., and Brahman has not yet claimed me, I am not

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-31 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 30, 2007, at 3:36 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Him: No, I don't have time to clarify my position right now but you might remember that I don't

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-31 Thread Vaj
On Jul 31, 2007, at 9:59 AM, jim_flanegin wrote: Yet this is just new age speculation. The tradition itself is very clear on what UC, videha-mukti, is and it is not a transitional state. You must be misintepreting that. Its a very subtle difference between Brahman and UC. Each could be

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-31 Thread Rory Goff
On Jul 30, 2007, at 3:36 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: This reminds me of what Rory said a few posts back about CC, GC and UC being transitory states. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yet this is just new age speculation. Au contraire, mon frere -- it is my

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-31 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 30, 2007, at 3:36 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: This reminds me of what Rory said a few posts back about CC, GC and UC being transitory states. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-31 Thread Rory Goff
On Jul 30, 2007, at 3:36 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: This reminds me of what Rory said a few posts back about CC, GC and UC being transitory states. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: Yet this is just new age speculation. Rory wrote: Au

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-31 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 31, 2007, at 9:59 AM, jim_flanegin wrote: Yet this is just new age speculation. The tradition itself is very clear on what UC, videha-mukti, is and it is not a transitional state. You must be

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-31 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yet Jim in a post yesterday dismissed the analogy of acid induced states of being as not valid because they were not permanent. Though it was Rory who said that, I did want to add that the quid pro quo regarding drug

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-31 Thread hyperbolicgeometry
---except for the natural drugs (neurotransmitters) produced by your own body, some of them similar to the drug DMT. In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: Yet Jim in a post yesterday

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-31 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hyperbolicgeometry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---except for the natural drugs (neurotransmitters) produced by your own body, some of them similar to the drug DMT. Probably a matter of quantity in those cases.:-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread Marek Reavis
Excellent conversation. Thanks. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Him: I said, about your enlightened friend: Good for him. Really. But no big deal. Why would it be? Me: I didn't say it was. Neither would he. But I was somehow under

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Him: No, I don't have time to clarify my position right now but you might remember that I don't doubt the notion of continuous witnessing (in fact, I've had very long stretches of it) nor even of celestial vision/ god

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Him: No, I don't have time to clarify my position right now but you might remember that I don't doubt the notion of continuous witnessing (in fact,

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Him: No, I don't have time to clarify my position right now but you might

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread Rory Goff
Rory wrote: Yes, I have found as long as I am claiming C.C., G.C., or U.C., and Brahman has not yet claimed me, I am not fully liberated, and am still attached or bound to experience. Along these same lines, when you were asking about how we fall into ignorance, I find that

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rory wrote: Yes, I have found as long as I am claiming C.C., G.C., or U.C., and Brahman has not yet claimed me, I am not fully liberated, and am still attached or bound to experience. Along

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread Rory Goff
jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: Hi Rory- yeah, but the diff in Brahman is that consciousness concentrates into the particle, but doesn't really collapse into it- snip There is or can be a total collapse, as Krishna/Karttikeya begins to be enlivened, but not one in which the

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is why I say, as Brahman I am the Cosmic Consciousness of my particle(s), instead of I am in C.C., and as Krishna/Karttikeya I am the God Consciousness of my particle(s), instead of I am in G.C., and so on -- I

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: Hi Rory- yeah, but the diff in Brahman is that consciousness concentrates into the particle, but doesn't really collapse into it- snip There is or can be a total

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread Rory Goff
jim_flanegin wrote: Hi Rory- yeah, but the diff in Brahman is that consciousness concentrates into the particle, but doesn't really collapse into it- snip Rory Goff wrote: There is or can be a total collapse, as Krishna/Karttikeya begins to be enlivened,

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jim_flanegin wrote: Hi Rory- yeah, but the diff in Brahman is that consciousness concentrates into the particle, but doesn't really collapse into it- snip Rory Goff wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, *each* bindu point remaining absolutely true to its self, and yet veritably exploding with Bliss-- pretty cool, huh? Yes :-) Which brings me to the word, ignorance, a word which many seekers don't like. At

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: Yes, *each* bindu point remaining absolutely true to its self, and yet veritably exploding with Bliss-- pretty cool, huh? Yes :-) Which

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I have found as long as I am claiming C.C., G.C., or U.C., and Brahman has not yet claimed me, I am not fully liberated, and am still attached or bound to experience. Along these same lines, when you were

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: Yes, I have found as long as I am claiming C.C., G.C., or U.C., and Brahman has not yet claimed me, I am not fully liberated, and am still

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this may be due to states of consciousness' being temporarily attained via external means, rather than fully understood in terms of the Self, which is beyond the various states. I have noticed enhancements of

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: I think this may be due to states of consciousness' being temporarily attained via external means, rather than fully understood in terms of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread curtisdeltablues
Thanks for some excellent points and perspectives New! Nothing to add but a high five for being genuine. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: Yes, I have found as long as I am claiming

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip And a side point, going back to posts of last week: the discussion on how do you know you are awake and not in a dream. (That is in a state as analogous to waking as is dreaming). How do you know for sure you are

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tying to Danas post, he ask cogently, the same sorts of questions / observations of Dr Tart (Charlie to many on campus). Jim may be eternally free -- Rory plays with his particles, Tom has his hardrive loaded every

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for some excellent points and perspectives New! Nothing to add but a high five for being genuine. And the alternative would be being ...a giraffe?:-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And a side point, going back to posts of last week: the discussion on how do you know you are awake and not in a dream. (That is in a state as analogous to waking as is dreaming). The answer, -- was weak in my

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: Tying to Danas post, he ask cogently, the same sorts of questions / observations of Dr Tart (Charlie to many on campus). Jim may be eternally

[FairfieldLife] Re: conversation with Dana Sawyer

2007-07-30 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: Tying to Danas post, he ask cogently, the same sorts of questions /