[FairfieldLife] Maharishi on charismatic Christianity

2017-12-23 Thread srijau
Maharishi certainly was not anti-Christian nor anti-Jesus but I heard him definitively oppose charismatic Christian practices as having no lasting benefit.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking in Tongues

2017-12-23 Thread srijau
gibberish has nothing to do with the Veda. Nothing. You could listen to the Torah the same way, that would be analogous, Glossalia might be a valid spiritual practice in some way. Don't waste your time listening to it. Or don't waste our time saying it is worth listening to until you have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking in Tongues

2017-12-23 Thread srijau
he is just a blowhard. there is so many of them.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking in Tongues

2017-12-23 Thread srijau
it has nothing to do with what Maharishi said. nothing

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking in Tongues

2017-12-23 Thread srijau
well thats not how Maharishi Mahesh taught Patanjali, he taught it only as something intelligible. You only use the sutras in sanskrit if you understand the meaning. Dr Tony Nader teaches it is equivalent to the a way of percieving the physical structure of the brain, by you don't get to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking in Tongues

2017-12-23 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I felt this an interesting response inside this thread below. I find that different X-ians evidently have a developed technical jargon that while it is their own seems to match up with other’s mysticism in other spiritual lines, in language meaningful to something experienced as universal

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking in Tongues

2017-12-23 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Carde, MMY was saying that you don't have to understand sanskrit to reap the benefits of reading its ancient texts. The sounds of the works by Jaimini and others are enough to give benefits to the reader. In Pantanjali's case one can levitate or disappear from one's environment. ---In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking in Tongues

2017-12-23 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Emily, According to the guru in the video, there is also an unexpected benefit to glossalalia. It can give the practitioner an enhanced spiritual vision and hearing. This seems to tie in with MMY's assertions about reading

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking in Tongues

2017-12-23 Thread emily.ma...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The act of glossolalia, speaking in unknown (or ecstatic) speech has many pre-Christian roots. In a lengthy journal article for the American Scientific Affiliation (an association of Christian scientists), Dr. Pattison summarizes the publications of numerous historians on this topic by saying

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2017-12-23 Thread FFL PostCount ffl.postco...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking in Tongues

2017-12-23 Thread srijau
yes and also recordings of speaking in tongues have been analyzed by linguists and found to be gibberish.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking in Tongues

2017-12-23 Thread eunnerst...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
As a Christian, who has recently become a meditator, I find this very helpful. I have experienced 'speaking in tongues' and when I had my first day of TM instruction, during the "puja" I heard words that were familiar to me in my charismatic experience. I am wondering lately if the unified

[FairfieldLife] Indian asrams raided

2017-12-23 Thread eustace10679
BBC News Hour a series of Indian ashrams are raided following allegations of sexual abuse. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172vr1jhn7mrht http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172vr1jhn7mrht Fast forward to 45' (to 60').

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking in Tongues

2017-12-23 Thread he...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife]
The main problem here might well be that if you have next to no idea what the text is about and of the individual grammatical and semantic elements, or stuff, your brains are very prone to misinterpret the input from your ears: http://kissthisguy.com/ http://kissthisguy.com/

[FairfieldLife] Lvttion par excellence??

2017-12-23 Thread he...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife]
I guess most people in the US of A already seen this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ7l-Fi5nJY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ7l-Fi5nJY