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(below: Peter says E not caused by a physiological state. ) I
don't believe various groups of people are saying that. They are
saying correlation, not cause. We can point to at least 3 known
groups of people whose
--- Re: US News and World Reprt, July 24, 2006, An Alarming Link;
New studies say diabetes leads to Alzheimer's. Still, that raises
hope for novel brain treatments.
More Evidence that Alzheimer's is Type 3 diabetes:
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Controlling blood
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The flying program was not wonderful. A total failure.
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and check out his website at http://www.samharris.org
Here's an except from the above tinyurl in which Harris compares
Western religion and Eastern Mysticism (particularly Buddhism).:
With respect to spiritual practice, however, the disparity clearly
runs the
Note: Orthodox Christianity is all about getting Resurrected
(acquiring a renewed body - a celestial Spiritual body); not becoming
Enlightened.
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--- hyperbolicgeometry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
---Can't find pics of these Dudes, but they claim to be Enlightend
devotees of Ramana Maharshi. Website at http://www.satramana.org
Various criticisms of interest; (the usual messing around with
disciples wives, mismanagement of money
--- hyperbolicgeometry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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--- hyperbolicgeometry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A closer examination of some of the Source material of the Neo-
Advaitin school (Andrew Cohen, I Nome, Arunachala Ramana, Adyashanti,
Gangaji...etc); reveals a distictive body of arguments designed to
convert the aspirant to an immediate, radical
---
--- hyperbolicgeometry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Douglas Harding is an important Neo-Advaitin by virtue of his first
book, On Having No Head...which ironically is all about a stage,
or
progressive level of attainment on the road to Enlightenment, but
not
quite there. His subsequent
--- HMuktananda's case differed since strong evidence points
to the victims being underage. Thus, they (some, many, all?) were
not adults. Thus, they were victims.
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--Right, Charlie wasn't interested in the Sidhis crap. The
question is, what's right for YOU?
Try the following program, and you will see noticeable benefits in
30 days:
1. Practice TM
2. Take one tablet of Vinpocetine sublingual before meditation.
(warning - be careful if you are taking
Some of the early quantum pioneers considered the relationship
between pure Consciousness and phenomena, concluding that the
Transcendent in the context of Brahman points to analogous concepts
in physics; but contrary to what MMY would have people believe, there
is no physics of his Unified
The QM theories of Hagelin, et al; are relative considerations and have
nothing to do with the topic of Pure Consciousness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_SU(5)
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good question!!
Where was God?'
The leader of 1.1 billion Roman Catholics also prayed for peace in
his native German, which he has mostly avoided to not hurt Polish and
Jewish sensitivities. He was forced to join the Hitler Youth and
drafted into the army during the war.
---
Paul Kurtz says no. (Free Inquiry, June/July, 2006, p. 33 Why I
am
a Skeptic about Religious Claims):
...theists maintain that one cannot be good unless one believes in
God. Skepticism about God's existence and divine plan does not imply
pessimism, nihilism, the collapse of all
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from http://www.secularhumanism.org
Evolution
Today the theory of evolution is again under heavy attack by
religious fundamentalists. Although the theory of evolution cannot be
said to have reached its final formulation, or to be an infallible
principle of science, it is nonetheless
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2. If religion were necessary for morality, there should be some
evidence that atheists are less moral than believers.
People of faith regularly allege that atheism is responsible for some
of the most appalling crimes of the twentieth century. Are
---
Religion Paranormal
The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the
Paranormal
by Paul Kurtz. Published by Prometheus Books.
Guide Rating -
Is there some basic connection between religious beliefs and
paranormal beliefs? Some commonality which helps
---
---Now I'm wondering if the Scientology Dark Lord Xenu was one of
these Mormon gods in another universe.
--- http://www.utlm.org/faqs/faqgeneral.htm
Interesting set of questions and answers by Evangelical Christian
(and great-great-granddaughter of LDS leader Brigham Young); Sandra
During the 70's a large Monastery existed in the Topanga/Malibu area;
which was unfortunately leveled by a fire (not surprising, since
fires are frequent in those hills).
In regard to the contributor a few posts back who remarked that
the karmic explanation for such events often serve no
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], hyperbolicgeometry
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No words can describe it,
No example can point to it,
Samsara does not make it worse,
Nirvana does not make it better,
It has never been born,
It has never ceased,
It has never been liberated,
It has never been deluded
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], hyperbolicgeometry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Get a synchronistic picture of your psychological state before and
after meditation. Pics change each minute and are sent in from around
the world:
http://www.humanclock.com
Click on to the square at top (view the clock
-More jewels of wisdom (below). In addition, most Buddhists are
nihilists and have been duped into the false idea that after getting
Enlightened, dropping the body (and all subtle bodies) is a higher
state of evolution than maintaining a body. Even on logical grounds
this is baloney since the
--Or, they are really Enlightened but Enlightenment isn't what it's
cracked up to be.
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on 5/16/05 4:56 PM, Peter Sutphen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got a serious question for everybody and no
implicit criticism
---Right! As a matter of fact, Ramakrishna Himself predicted a
future incarnation of his own, (I believe 200 years after his death)
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
---The assertion that enlightenment results in the cessation of the
expereince of self
In private conversations with Charlie Lutes, he stated that he didn't
approve of the scientific baloney coming out of MIU; and he
questioned MMY's wisdom in bringing the flying siddhi, saying it was
a lot of crap.
I tried to convince him to take over as leader of an alternative (to
MIU and
-Excellent point! but even with evidence the diehard scientific
materialists like the Amazing Randi, Michael Shermer, biologist
Richard Dawkins, etcwouldn't even accept the reality of ordinary
psychic experiences let alone the extraordinary ones. Basically, it
(the paradigm shift) all
--That's the flaw in your reasoning, Peter: supposed multiple
Dharmas. There's just Dharma...not one for CC, one for other
states, etc. In any state of awareness, desires occur since they
are DRIVEN by bodily impulses which are ingrained patterns of
behavior. (occuring before, and after
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btw); the key point is Transcendental awareness. If it (pure
Consciousness, Self-awareness), occurs for you regardless of the
amount of effort, excellent.
Having exposed the primary goal, the question of effort is important
in
---
Imaginary scenario...what are the responses of the Gurus?:
A Guru is lecturing in a hall with devotees, when some terrorist
bandits come in and demand money from everyone; if the money is not
forthcoming, the Guru's fingers will be cut off.
Some people in the group fail to fork over their
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(has a sprinkling of Hindus and Buddhists, but no TM'ers - as a
religion). This shows that the TM'ers are unlikely to develop into
Superheros without some Supernatural guidance.
http://tinyurl.com/j7rpm
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--The bottom like is what is the meaning of redemption, of the
purported substitionary death? I haven't seen any difference in the
karma of fundie Christians and others. They seem to pay karmically
just as others; if so, then the payoff could be after death?
This is speculative. Personally,
---Somebody mentioned that an insult naming an anatomical part would
be inappropriate. Saythe part that follows from go suck
your.. Of course, this would be the elbow since that would not
only be inappropriate, but impossible for most people.
Instead of medications, I would
http://theworsthorse.net/brit.html
---quite true, authfriend, I like your analysis! Looks like she was
on the verge of a genuine spontaneous breakthrough into pure
Consciousness (the Presense mentioned); but the organized Church is
basically incapable of providing a nurturing environment for such
development; since although
--thanks, I have that book; but he's incorrect: the mind doesn't die.
An I associated with mind-identification dies. Mind was a medium
by which the message of Sri Lakshmana was conveyed to David Godman.
Therefore, it's very much alive. Also, shortly after Lakshmana
realized the Self, he went
-`Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked
upstarting -
`Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my
---No, you're wrong. In a broad definition of individual, one can
define an entity as become composed of relative components that do
not converge on a entity called the I. Thus, Ramana Maharshi is
definitely an individual, otherwise he would not dare use such words
as I and me in the context
Individual defined as: (online dictionary).
1. a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
2. a person: a strange individual.
3. a distinct, indivisible entity; a single thing, being, instance,
or item.
4. a group considered as a unit.
5. Biology. a. a single organism capable of
---True, but not all paths have the same objective. Some want the 72
Virgins.
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander
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Thanks, Steve, that sounds really sensible.
steven klayman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I really
---Interesting anti-TM diatribe. Who wrote that, Manning? -ro-flex?
OK, what's his (Manning, if you're reading this...) solution to life's
problems. Do nothing?
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.suggestibility.org/surprise.php
Stumbleupon.com
---Question to anyone: What was MMY's original objective?. Was it
accomplished...if not fully, what %?
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An MUM Governor-faculty member sent this to a friend, as fairly
accurate
notes of today's most historic time of
---Precisely! and btw; promoting just the technique is problematic
since TM is fully entrenched within the Holy Tradition, part and
parcel of Sanatana Dharma; all wrapped within a cake. The frosting
on the cake is the outer covering of what people call religion. So,
no, one cannot really
---Used car salesman. Would that be Werner Erhard of est fame?
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TurquoiseB wrote:
I'm on a few spiritual forums, and on only one of
them has Maharishi's name even come up.
Hey, Barry, you forgot to
http://www.tinyurl.com/2xpc8s
Sunflower Sutra
I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and
sat down under the huge shade of a Southern
Pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the
box house hills and cry.
Jack Kerouac sat beside me on a busted rusty iron
pole, companion, we
at http://www.tinyurl.com/2p7pvh
Allen says MMY is dim-witted in politics.
---
But why in the world would one want to be internalized in a
disasociative state oblivous to the outside world? The idea that
such a state of Samadhi is somehow an advanced symptom of
Spirituality was propagated by Ramakrishna, who frequently went into
Samadhi, all the while traveling
---except for the natural drugs (neurotransmitters) produced by your
own body, some of them similar to the drug DMT.
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote:
Yet Jim in a post yesterday
---Onward TM Soldiers:
Onward, TM soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of The Mahareeshee going on before.
King Nader, the royal Master, leads against the foe;
Forward into battle see His banners go!
Refrain:
Onward, TM soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Bevan going on
--Be that word our sign in parting, bird or fiend, I shrieked,
upstarting-
Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!- quit the bust above my door!
Take thy
---Below: Robert says we don't get Enlightened in order to perform
magic tricks. First, true Siddhis are not tricks, by definition.
Second, my POV is different. The whole point of Enlightenment is to
reach a platform where (having captured the fort); one is in a
position to evolve further in
---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garab_Dorje
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Huen Tisang was as real/unreal as you or me. Uddiyana was as
real/unreal as the USA.
The muslims jihadists who murdered everyone and turned uddiyana
into a wasteland were as
---It's either us getting control of the oil or them. Better us!
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(snip)
Robert, we understand your point. But we cannot just criticize
the
system in this one particular country. IMHO, the attitude is
---they could be extraterrestrial aliens, in which case they would
be hatchlings.
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I was walking down a street in SF once when I came upon a clutch
(gaggle, swarm, school?) of her sisters walking towards me. I heard
they
---thanks, all has to do with the arrows of time; ie. about 8 semi-
distinct (but all related) apparent, real, (or both) groups of
phenomena which point to a linear progression of events which people
interpret as time. Among the various arrows, physicists are MOST
interested in the Entropic
---IMO : the pure (Consciousness only) neo-Advaitin viewpoint begs
the question of why in the world one would even talk about
Enlightenment, or even accept something such as the statement of a
neo-Advaitin Guru such as HWL Poonja: Ye are already Enlightened.
Doesn't make sense. If they are
-Seeing into the Buddha fields is irrelevant, unless you define it
(the seeing of something) rather broadly. Did Shankara see into the
Buddha fields? Did Ramana Maharshi.??
How about: seeing into the Ramana Maharshi fields as a requirement,
or seeing into the SBS fields??
-- In
http://www.tinyurl.com/ypre54
--
Below - primordial sounds prior to mantras. (Precisely the point of
the Sant Mat Gurus!)the so-called Yoga of Light and Sound.
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote:
On May 23,
--- Thanks, re: MMY not publishing the 2nd half of the Gita, some
speculations have arisen on this point, from different quarters. The
Hare Krishnas believe that he's being ignorant, obstinate, and
malicious in leaving out Krishna-Bhakti.
A few others have mentioned that the inclusion of
--Re: Vaj says that Tibetan Buddhist yidam worship is not really
god worship and therefore (a) is dissimilar to Hindui worship -
being part of wisdom oriented sadhana.(b) doesn't fall under the
scrutiny of Sam Harris' attacks on faith-based religion.
Nope, factually incorrect since the
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote:
On Feb 22, 2007, at 7:45 PM, qntmpkt wrote:
As could be expected, Harris batted Sullivan's pseudo-argument
out of
the park into the next county. I
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My Dome Rejection From Shiva Ma Ryan
FWD:From Shiva Ma Ryan, My Dome Rejection
Please share this letter I wrote to John Hagelin
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-- Nisargadata Maharaj is one of those Neo-Advaitin Nihilists who
states that he's Pure Consciousness, but refuses to acknowledge his
existence in the relative world. (these teachings are inconsistent
with what MMY says...since Brahman has two aspects in One, not one
aspect in One.). Thanks
---Thanks, actually Harris is a Buddhist, (although he tends not to
publicize this fact); but in any event, he's a different brand of
athiest than Dawkins and Dennett. He's not a great fan of scientism,
but would prefer to have rational discourses on the nature of the
mind, in the context of
One might construe N's orientation as being fully non-attached ...or
not; perhaps he lacks interest in relative considerations. Being
external obserers, we don't know what the true situation is for sure.
It's analogous to a Turing machine test: either a computer or a real
person is answering
http://www.tibetancho.com/Assets/Cho.html
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(below): typical Neo-Advaita nonsense. The discussion pertains to
the body, in the relative sense.
You are making assumptions out of waking state. In
realization there is nobody to go anyplace.
--- Jeff Fischer [EMAIL
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