Monotonous Plan? That was before we had Transcendental Meditation and the
Spiritual Regeneration Movement. Seize the day, we Know a lot more today. Make
use of your time while you're here, the doors open at 7am for group meditation
in the Domes everyday.
-Buck
He said: “Ours is an age
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Although I cited the Gnostics with approval a few posts above I have
to confess than when I read their literature there is definitely
something slightly sinister about their texts. Too much distaste for the
body and sex; too much yearning for escape.
Re The average lifespan in the Middle Ages was 30, meaning that fewer than
half the humans born reached that age. :
Average lifespans are a dodgy statistic as in older societies with their very
high infant-mortality rates that can badly skew the figures.
Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima
Why quote such a psuchophantic bullshitter. He committed seppuku without the
honor of serving faithfully. Which one of MMY's seven states is this?
Why quote such a psuchophantic bullshitter.
Because he was a great novelist.
My favourite is The Temple of the Golden Pavilion in which a novice burns down
the temple that has obsessed him. It's based on a true-life event but is
essentially about someone desperately trying to escape from
An-artaxios sez:
I recall reading something long ago about the gnostics, that our awareness is
imprisoned, and there are seven levels to this prison and we have to escape
each one before we are free.
These stations are known as the toll-houses of the soul. Each one is
controlled by an
Right, as in the Sant Mat Tradition where the first main goal is rising above
bodily consciousness...i.e. a near death experience without the near death.
The subtle bodies separate out from the physical, which may (they say) appear
as if dead. Then, the astral body is left behind and the
Maybe where you live.
But, it's all pretty much laid out in Nader Raam's book, cited below.
You probably wouldn't have read this book, since it costs $450.00, and
you're not anywhere near a Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge, where you
might have access to a copy. There's a copy at Radiance, the TM
On 12/11/2013 10:42 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
The ancient Gnostics had a wonderful myth that awakened souls after
death found themselves raised to the Moon
There are many reason for identifying the Gnostic movement with the the
appearance only theory of the Buddhist Mahayana, a fact that
Although I cited the Gnostics with approval a few posts above I have to confess
than when I read their literature there is definitely something slightly
sinister about their texts. Too much distaste for the body and sex; too much
yearning for escape. That could simply be a literary trope of
I don't know where MMY got this schemata either. It is not some seven states
schema found in some distant yogic or vedantic literature. I think MMY just
made it up.
However, I believe he made it up with a view towards traditional Vedanta's
categories of states of consciousness. That
I don't know either, but a lot of history regarding spiritual traditions is
lost to us, how different traditions might have traveled the roads in the past
and intermingled.
I recall reading something long ago about the gnostics, that our awareness is
imprisoned, and there are seven levels
Re the gnostics, that our awareness is imprisoned, and there are seven levels
to this prison and we have to escape each one before we are free.:
The ancient Gnostics had a wonderful myth that awakened souls after death
found themselves raised to the Moon (which gave the Moon its light and
the perception of the different lokas maybe.
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:42 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
Re the gnostics, that our awareness is imprisoned, and there are seven
levels to this prison and we have to escape each one before we are free.:
The ancient Gnostics had a wonderful
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