On May 17, 2012, at 8:02 AM, Share Long wrote:
John Hagelin found a correlation between the 5 mahabhutas and the 5
spin types.
What correlation is that? They both have the number 5 in them?
Now that's some advanced mathematics!
On May 17, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Jason wrote:
Hyper-religiosity is a mental disorder like myriad
psychological disorders that exist on this planet.
From an old TM teacher (Estes Park):
http://www.lorinroche.com/dangers/homeless.html
On May 16, 2012, at 1:38 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
Thanks, I got nearly 1.35 minutes into it before switching off.
Good of him to admit there is no scientific consensus on what
he says but he then went on to claim that superstring theory is
the unified field etc. There's no consensus on that
On May 16, 2012, at 10:59 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
So are you saying that the TMO dictum consciousness is primary,
matter is secondary, echoing the sentiments of Shankara, is a
falsehood?
I would say it's a falsehood as I can't see any evidence to
support it, I assume it's a case of
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/arianna-dalai-
lama_b_1519694.html
According to the Dalai Lama, science and Buddhist thought share many
things:
On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a
deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes. ... Both Buddhism
On May 14, 2012, at 8:26 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
authfriend:
Two HUGE mistakes in this post, even more ignorant
than Vaj's claim that the philosophy of Idealism
is a falsehood.
Not to mention that Mahayana Buddhism is based on
Idealism as propounded by Vasubhandu, the second
Buddha,
On May 14, 2012, at 12:46 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
The only thing is I never declared the philosophy of idealism
a falsehood! Sounds like Judy's making up lies and strawmen
again...
Oops!
Yeah I know. You have to be pretty stupid to confuse Hegel with
Shankara
On May 14, 2012, at 1:27 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
In philosophy, idealism is the group of philosophies
which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it,
is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise
immaterial.
Interesting. Points out the difference between
On May 14, 2012, at 1:51 PM, turquoiseb wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
Either way, you can't deny Shankara's hate of scientific
materialism...IIRC he said it should be eradicated. And
eradicate it he did. The traditional Indian scientific
On May 14, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
How 'bout everything is consciousness? In fact it would be pretty
hard to prove that everything isn't consciousness. ;-)
Yeah, as long as they don't bump their head or stub their toe! :-)
On May 14, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
On 05/14/2012 11:44 AM, Vaj wrote:
On May 14, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
How 'bout everything is consciousness? In fact it would be pretty
hard to prove that everything isn't consciousness. ;-)
Yeah, as long as they don't bump
http://tinyurl.com/7fw2fd2
The Templeton prize is awarded to the Dalai Lama for encouraging scientific
research and harmony among religions, and honours those who 'affirm life's
spiritual dimension' .
http://tinyurl.com/7rwohay
The Dalai Lama has said that last summer's riots were the fault of
On May 12, 2012, at 8:18 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote:
Question put to Maharishi in the Assembly Hall, Seelisberg:
Maharishi, do you like to be with us ?
Maharishi; I would rather stay in my room and read Yoga Vashistha
Probably one of the most profound Hindu teachings I ever received was of
On May 12, 2012, at 4:37 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
I stumbled upon this little 2006 gem while pursuing my
fascination with Bron/Broen/The Bridge. There was a
little Similar to note at the bottom of the page
saying that the murder plot was similar to this film.
So of course I had to find it and
On May 12, 2012, at 6:19 PM, cardemaister wrote:
http://www.zrii.com/products/zrii-amalaki-drink.html
Chopra Center prices...
On May 11, 2012, at 3:59 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:
Coincidentally, King Tony's latest youtube offerings touch on this topic.
Whaaa! Where's the crown? And what's with the tan, he's supposed
to be a monk! He looks like Don
On May 11, 2012, at 7:55 AM, cardemaister wrote:
Just curious, what kind of vibes do you get
from this pic?
http://is13.snstatic.fi/img/468/1288333146212.jpg
She appears to be suffering from JPEG compression disease. :-)
On May 11, 2012, at 8:06 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@
wrote:
Anyway, I sure hope for the theories sake that they find the Higgs boson
because
On May 11, 2012, at 9:15 AM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On May 10, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote:
Yes, this is what it (kensho/satori) is like, no sense of center,
the sense of individuality
On May 10, 2012, at 6:34 AM, raunchydog wrote:
No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to
perseverance. ~Ramana Maharshi
Great quote!
being scanned in a fMRI. The EEG was only ever seen once before, in
lineal Patanjali yogis who could demonstrate the samadhi of their
tradition.
See: http://www.pnas.org/content/101/46/16369.full
What are you typing on Vaj? A number of characters are not
displaying correctly when I read
On May 9, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On May 9, 2012, at 5:43 PM, sparaig wrote:
Of course. As I point out in a subsequent post. Even if one can
float around a room, and that ability is predicated upon
On May 9, 2012, at 7:52 PM, Yifu wrote:
consciousness beyond the brain - precisely; dead people with subtle
bodies. Likewise, Buddhas existing in varous Buddhalands beyond the
physical. You doubt the existence of life after physical brain
existence? How curious.
I didn't say that, now
‘‘Out-of-Body’’ Experiences; Self-Referent Functions Disorganized in
Space
‘‘Out-of-body’’ experiences help us understand how the sense of a
physical self
arises. During a classical, brief, ‘‘out-of-body’’ state, the
experience includes: (1)
the displacement of the center of
. The EEG was only ever seen once before, in
lineal Patanjali yogis who could demonstrate the samadhi of their
tradition.
See: http://www.pnas.org/content/101/46/16369.full
This is an interesting article Vaj. But we need to know what the
EEG of a practitioner experiencing rigpa
On May 10, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote:
Yes, this is what it (kensho/satori) is like, no sense of center,
the sense of individuality is totally obliterated.
I didn't realize you were a Zen practitioner, I thought you were a TMer?
On May 10, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Emily Reyn wrote:
These characters showed up in my email in your Re:, but for me,
did not show up in Vaj's original email that came through my email.
People who rely on the web interface have a number of oddities to
deal with, like not receiving photos,
On May 10, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote:
Brahman is always there, and Brahman alone sees Brahman, this is
seeing one's true nature, which the Tibetan Buddhists call Rigpa.
Brahman and rigpa are not synonyms Xeno.
On May 9, 2012, at 3:48 AM, sparaig wrote:
Everything in the universe is comprised of observer, process of
observation and observed.
What about the primordial Seven Rishis? Are you implying they did not
have direct perception?
On May 9, 2012, at 1:53 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:
All of reality is consciousness, so of course it guides evolution.
So we've abandoned empiricism then. Or are you joking, I can't tell.
One of the many falsehoods the TM Org
On May 9, 2012, at 4:23 PM, sparaig wrote:
Falsehood?
There are two ways you can appreciate consciousness is primary, matter is
secondary:
!) allegedly, someone in Unity Consciousness perceives this directly as a
result of how their brain operates.
I have no personal experience
On May 9, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote:
I hope this has properly expanded on Judy's comment. Vaj's statement was too
superficial to get at the crux of the problem of truth. The idea cannot be
proved either false or true. Thus I would conclude, by virtue what he has
said
On May 9, 2012, at 5:43 PM, sparaig wrote:
Of course. As I point out in a subsequent post. Even if one can float around
a room, and that ability is predicated upon being in Unity Consciousness, one
still can't assert (in the Western philosophical sense) that one is one with
the universe.
On May 9, 2012, at 5:43 PM, sparaig wrote:
Rishi, devata and chhandas have different shades of meaning, depending on
context.
What context is that? Any guru can make up there own “context” and that’s OK
with you? Rishi, Devata and Chhandas has a very specific meaning to mantrin,
there’s
On May 8, 2012, at 3:29 AM, sparaig wrote:
MMY presented at least SOME ideas that are falsifiable. Some of
them HAVE been falsified in fact and have led to changes in the
theory of how and why TM works.
...or why it doesn't work.
On May 7, 2012, at 10:27 PM, feste37 wrote:
I've never heard of Dan Fogelberg. Is he some kind of pop singer?
Folk-Rock.
http://integrallife.com/member/paul-smith/blog/six-varieties-
christians-and-their-churches-part-one-tribal-and-warrior-churc
Six Varieties of Christians and their Churches | Part 1: Tribal and
Warrior Churches
Christians and their communities of faith exist in rich diversity
today. Why
On May 7, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Rick Archer wrote:
Even Oprah will be amazed at how many people have been abused and
neglected by this organization.
The Opranator's already smoking the TM crack pipe, so I doubt she'll
even notice. She certainly didn't notice Dr. Oz's outdated lies on TM
On May 7, 2012, at 2:13 PM, turquoiseb wrote:
But you can't deny that Oprah's involvement with TM
hasn't resulted in support of Nature for her:
Oprah Winfrey Network Losses Approach $330 Million: Report
Whoa, that's a huge loss! Got Coherence?
On May 7, 2012, at 2:31 PM, feste37 wrote:
The perfect post for FFL. Here's the formula:
1. Write something that slams the TMO. Talk vaguely about lies and abuse.
Nothing specific is needed.
2. Send it to the moderator, who will post it for you.
3. Fly away, scot-free, leaving your
On May 6, 2012, at 7:24 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seekliberation seekliberation@...
wrote:
I see how mcdonalds and soda can be guilty, but how so with
computers/games?
I supplement my income by editing medical papers before
they are submitted to
mechanisms that kick in there? Meditative texts are filled with lists of the
side effects of such meditations, what if there’s something to them?
Vaj: But no one really knows what it all means. It makes me wonder IF
pathologic introversion does cause this in humans, what does compulsive
On May 6, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Susan wrote:
Re digital introspection - I wonder how long it takes for such brain changes
to be established to the point they could be passed on to offspring. I would
guess it will take a few generations for us to see the full (possibly horrid)
impact of this
On May 3, 2012, at 3:49 PM, emptybill wrote:
I was at the Fiuggi 2000 course and we did not sign or pledge
anything.
Learning the param-para puja and bBecoming a TM teacher was itself
considered a pledge.
Then get selling mantras dude! Perhaps at your next Yonge Khachab
retreat you vent
On May 3, 2012, at 5:41 PM, cardemaister wrote:
FWIW:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/akandabaratam/message/29172
Nice find Card. Comments interleaved:
Makuta, Chandrajnana and Parameshvara Agama
(...)
There is a major disconnect between what we read of Hinduism in the
vedas,
Meanwhile, in Mordor...
http://www.thinkatheist.com/profiles/blogs/bill-nye-bood-in-texas-for/
Bill Nye, the harmless children's edu-tainer known as The Science
Guy, managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a
presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit
On May 3, 2012, at 10:11 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
While amusing, from my POV the Waco Wackos have nothing
on the people around here who have been discussing the
historical Krishna as if he actually existed.
Reading scripture destroys brain cells.
The Vaishnavite Bhagavad-gita is actually
On May 3, 2012, at 10:57 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
No, but everyone knows that when you become a
TM Teacher you bow down to your guru and pledge
to keep the teaching pure - it's in the Guru Dev
puja that you used to recite every day and it's
in the TTC pledge you made.
What if, as we
On May 2, 2012, at 4:41 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
...who tend to be homophobic and look down their noses
at Buddhist monks who protest Chinese atrocities by
committing suicide. Consider the case of Aravan, who
offed himself to ensure a victory during the glorify-
war era of the Maharbarata. That
On May 2, 2012, at 3:01 AM, cardemaister wrote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/01/mindfulness-meditation-
doctors_n_1456870.html?ref=mostpopular
For years there's been a special 10-day physicians and scientists
course in Mindfulness that consistently sells out, as leading
On May 2, 2012, at 12:13 PM, turquoiseb wrote:
It occurred to me, after writing an earlier post today
about the way I view scripture, that I don't remember
the subject of how others here view scripture having
been discussed.
Anyone up for such a discussion? Are there writings
from *any*
On May 2, 2012, at 1:33 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
Mindfulness for docs!
Vaj:
...they're automatically able to control their
thoughts and reactiveness.
these results provide support for the idea that
one long-term effect of OM meditation may be
reduction in the propensity to 'get
On May 1, 2012, at 1:26 AM, emptybill wrote:
The presence or the absence of thinking is incidental to vidya/rigpa.
Rigpa is always free of thought and always free of clinging. By
definition, thoughts are concepts and thus the conceptual attitude of
forming thoughts is redundant rhetoric.
King owns a great radio station in Bangor which he converted recently
to a liberal talk-show station. It's great, we get Pat LeMarche and
Stephanie Miller in the morn and Ed Schultz and Randi Miller in the
afternoon radiating like a coherence wave out over the Tea Bagger
masses. It's a
On May 1, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
Well, I guess it's settled then. Not one single FFL informant
will speak up for their guru, MMY. Rick: don't even bother
to shut it down. Sad.
Well I will: I'm happy Maharishi helped popularize meditation and
meditation research, even
On May 1, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Emily Reyn wrote:
Story from April's Sun Magazine - Reader's Write section:
What state of consciousness in TM might this correspond to?
Off the Program Consciousness.
On May 1, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
I think you mean Randi Rhodes not Randi Miller.
Yes, sorry my bad, Randi Rhodes.
Too bad he doesn't have
Thom Hartmann on at that time.
Thom's on in the evening.
Randi is too much of an Obama apologist
for my tastes. Randi is still on
On May 1, 2012, at 2:02 PM, emptybill wrote:
I know who he is - I've have his book. I found it's mode of
presentation confusing in explanation - especially for people
without a teacher. Perhaps he does better now.
I like his writings, esp. on Dzogchen, but what I don't like is when
he or
On May 1, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
What is the format of King's other station?
Classic rock.
He's also used it for emergencies. In the ice storm of '98 when there
was no electricity or gas north of Portland, i.e. most of the state,
King had generators helicoptered into Bangor
On Apr 29, 2012, at 9:22 PM, Emily Reyn wrote:
To quote Xeno:
I thought the title Vaj used 'Thought-Free Wakefulness' is a bit
misleading because it is not a matter of having thoughts or not, it
is the identification with thoughts that is the problem. One can
have thoughts
On Apr 30, 2012, at 12:46 AM, emptybill wrote:
Bullshit.
He uses the phrases interchangeably
both in the article and in the book. It is confusing
for many people and reinforces the view that
Buddhist yoga and meditation is cultivation of a
blank state of mind.
Perhaps for you. I've never had
On Apr 29, 2012, at 10:23 PM, wgm4u wrote:
On my TM Teacher Training Course, one of our instructors broke the
news that we don't experience...pure consciousness until the last
stress is gone.
So in other words, all that pure consciousness research is just BS?
Not really that
On Apr 30, 2012, at 11:20 AM, emptybill wrote:
Patrul Rimpoche, in his commentary on Tsig Sum Nedek, emphasizes
that bliss, clarity and non-thought are just temporary states and
must be disrupted for someone to become established in rigpa.
And, yes, that is correct.
Noetic emptiness is
On Apr 29, 2012, at 12:39 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote:
In your opinion, are there more child abusers and rapists amongst the tibetan
Buddhist abbottery than in the Catholic glergy ?
Apparently, child abusers are involved in the Transcendental Meditation
community in Fairfield, IA and the
On Apr 29, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Susan wrote:
From what I can see, there are child abusers and rapists in all cultures and
traditions. They don't seem to congregate in a few spots. Kind of like most
diseases - mental illness, heart disease. You can try to cure them, but
mostly child abusers
On Apr 29, 2012, at 8:36 PM, emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:
Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche (CNR) –
CNR : Thought is samsara. Being free of thought is liberation.
Emptybill:
If being thought free is liberation then even the beings absorbed in
prakriti (prakriti-laya) or those beings
On Apr 27, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote:
I thought the title Vaj used 'Thought-Free Wakefulness' is a bit
misleading because it is not a matter of having thoughts or not, it
is the identification with thoughts that is the problem.
Actually it the title the Shambhala
On Apr 27, 2012, at 12:11 PM, martyboi wrote:
The world is as you areMMY
The world is an old perv dressed as a monk who molests young women and pretends
to be a guru?
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/04/seeing-in-the-dark-a-new-series-about-buddhism-film-by-rev-danny-fisher-gary-gach/
Welcome to a new, regular exploration of Buddhism and film at
elephantjournal.com. We call it “Seeing in the Dark.”
You can read more about us at the very end of the blog,
On Apr 28, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
The world is as you areMMY
Vaj:
The world is an old perv dressed
as a monk who molests young women
and pretends to be a guru?
We know you're a fibber, but do you have to be
a hypocrite as well, Vaj?
What’s so
On Apr 28, 2012, at 1:46 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote:
He was reffering to the Buddhist Llama who raped his secretaries and gave
AIDS to a number of people.
No I was referring to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, an Indian businessman.
On Apr 28, 2012, at 1:15 PM, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:
At least Krishnamurthi, at the very end of his life had the guts to admit
that his teachings had been a failure because not a single soul had reached
transcendence from his lifelong teachings.
Noone transcends by
Get mopping then!
On Apr 25, 2012, at 10:26 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
Vaj:
The Mind's Own Physician...
Anyone can practice anything 'mindfully',
such as taking a walking or mopping the
floor. But, the mediation techniques Jon
Kabat-Zinn seem to be taken straight out
On Apr 26, 2012, at 3:15 AM, turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:
To be a successful program for the military or for
the general public, either mindfulness or TM would
IMO have to divorce itself from its religious roots
and stick to being Just A Technique. I do not believe
that the TM
On Apr 26, 2012, at 1:15 PM, turquoiseb wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:
It's not an either/or thing. The Buddhists who practice
TM also practice other techniques as well.
But would you be given a dome pass if you admitted
to having learned
On Apr 26, 2012, at 12:11 PM, turquoiseb wrote:
Plus, it would have *significant* advantages when dealing
with PTSD because (even though Nabby in his blissful TM-
induced ignorance doesn't understand this) mindfulness is
not necessarily a meditation technique in the sense that
he thinks of
On Apr 26, 2012, at 7:01 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
So, how many tools such as mantras and yantras
do you think the average person needs in order
to live the spiritual life?
I don’t know - how many? I’ll promise to write it down this time.
On Apr 24, 2012, at 9:30 PM, sparaig wrote:
If you won't list the papers, I won't respond. If you do list the
papers I won't respond.
I'm just saying don't waste your time unless it's something new -
I've heard it all before.
:
Thing is, Unc, I've cited it many times. Vaj just ignores it.
Research on the physiological correlates of pure consciousness
found during TM practice:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7045911
Breath suspension during the transcendental meditation technique.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
On Apr 25, 2012, at 5:11 AM, sparaig wrote:
Sigh. Unc, all you're doing is taking sides. Vaj says you never
show any research... no don't bother.
Actually you've showed this steaming pile of turds before. Thanks for
showing it again. It's all been refuted. Before.
On Apr 25, 2012, at 5:22 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
So you admit that your only point in this is to prove
Vaj and these other researchers wrong. NOT to say anything
positive about TM.
That was my whole point.
We've discussed this before, the reasons it's BS has been explained
to Lawson many
this interpretation. If
you disagree, please supply the TM study that tests for
exactly the same variables and in the same testing con-
ditions, and show how the findings for TM are more
integrative. If you cannot, I don't see how you can
possibly expect anyone here to believe that Vaj spins
things
or health education.[10][11][12] Skeptics have called TM
or its associated theories and technologies a pseudoscience.[13]
[14][15]
Sorry, Vaj, but that seems to me like a brown noser of the Big
Pharma talking... ;D
Nope, just an ER physician who knows how to read research and how to
spot BS...
On Apr 25, 2012, at 9:34 AM, marekreavis wrote:
I was aware of Swami Rama's demonstrations at the Menninger
Institute in Topeka, but understood that he was able to produce
theta waves that were associated with sleep but still remain aware
of what the researchers were doing and saying
SCI Lesson 34:
In Frederick Travis' paper The Junction Point Model (1994), Fred
associates the 7-9 cps EEG wave to be associated with some
underlying field that in humans are supposed to be to enhanced by
long term TM. Neurologist Dr. James Austin MD states that this cycle
is actually
On Apr 25, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
They keep putting lipstick on their Chevy.
I almost thought you said Cheney there for a second. :-)
On Apr 25, 2012, at 1:41 PM, sparaig wrote:
Only in your own mind.
BTW, referring to someone's professional work as a steaming pile
of turds isn't very compassionate. I thought you were Buddhist.
I was being compassionate, believe me.
On Apr 25, 2012, at 1:40 PM, sparaig wrote:
There's no such thing as proper controls in an EEG study on hand-
picked subjects.
The subjects in many of the Pure Consciousness studies were
selected because they were self-reporting regular periods of Pure
Consciousness
What you meant to
On Apr 25, 2012, at 3:20 PM, turquoiseb wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:
Not all studies require controls. Some of the early Pure
Consciousness studies were merely trying to establish what
physiological correlates (if any) could be found for
On Apr 25, 2012, at 3:26 PM, sparaig wrote:In an exploratory study on Pure Consciousness, the only baseline needed is between episodes of pure consciousness and the rest of the meditation period. The subjects provide their own baseline.Once you establish that there is a distinction that can be
On Apr 25, 2012, at 2:07 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote:
Spiritual growth was never about comparing scientific charts regarding this
or that technique.
Not really. But, extraordinary claims still do require extraordinary evidence.
And we are beginning to see that now in meditative
On Apr 24, 2012, at 5:26 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
In this latest round of the re-enactment, it seems to me
that Nabby, Lawson, and Judy are taking the will to believe
position. Their comments seem (to me) driven by the desire
to believe that Maharishi knew what he was doing in setting
things up
On Apr 24, 2012, at 11:15 AM, cardemaister wrote:
From the POV of kuNDali-yoga (kundalini-yoga), it seems to
me almost the only important naaDii-s are iDaa, pin.galaa (ping-
galaa) and suSumnaa (sushumnaa). YMMV, of course...
He did not seem to be aware of or understand the relationship
On Apr 24, 2012, at 4:04 PM, turquoiseb wrote:
Does 24/7 witnessing constitute your definition of
full enlightenment? I seem to remember Maharishi's
definition of what he considered full enlightenment
(Unity Consciousness) as, Being able to perform
the sidhis, especially being able to
On Apr 24, 2012, at 4:37 PM, sparaig wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
[...]
You were the one who settled for witnessing 24/7 as
a significator of enlightenment (CC), or even the
beginnings of it. I do not. I have higher standards.
I was
On Apr 24, 2012, at 4:59 PM, sparaig wrote:
Radically coherent alpha EEG across multiple leads is hypervigilance?
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...
The type of alpha coherence seen in TMers ain’t any big deal Lawson. And as
Barbara Brown once said
On Apr 24, 2012, at 5:30 PM, Susan wrote:
Vaj, I can't speak to the quality of the TM research, but I wonder why you
are so certain that no one doing TM is witnessing during the day and/or at
night? Witnessing is not such an unusual experience - and I am not talking
about people
On Apr 24, 2012, at 6:50 PM, sparaig wrote:
Sez who? Someone citing an evaluation of TM research from 30 years ago.
Barbara Brown was the person who popularized the use of EEG in the biofeedback
movement. In fact, I believe she actually started the use of the word
biofeedback...
On Apr 24, 2012, at 8:24 PM, sparaig wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On Apr 24, 2012, at 6:50 PM, sparaig wrote:
Sez who? Someone citing an evaluation of TM research from 30 years ago.
Barbara Brown was the person who popularized
On Apr 24, 2012, at 8:28 PM, marekreavis wrote:
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This is a new concept for me. It was never my understanding that not losing
awareness in sleep, as referenced by Maharishi and the TMO, meant remaining
aware of sensory data or awareness of events through mechanisms outside
the physical
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