[FairfieldLife] Re: question for MZ

2012-06-19 Thread merudanda
The four questions were:
1. Is Robin Carlsen Enlightened?
2. Are the Techniques for the Discovery of Grace compatible with the
Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program?
3. Is Robin Carlsen's teaching in the World Teacher Seminar a violation
of the purity of the teaching of the Holy Tradition of Maharishi and
Guru Dev?
4. It is Maharishi's desire that Meditators, Sidhas, and Governors of
the Age of Enlightenment not influenced by Robin Woodsworth Carlsen's
ideas, seminars, or his techniques?

http://tinyurl.com/c78cwta

from Vincent P. McCARTHY, Plaintiff,. v. The IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Defendant. No. 84-1768. Court of Appeals of Iowa
Discussion by Cynthia Ann Humes
http://tinyurl.com/bmvea2k
SACRED SCHISMS: How Religions Divide by James R. Lewis  Sarah M. Lewis,
Schisms within Hindu guru groups: the Transcendental Meditation movement
in North America  pp. 287-305

Interesting in a book entitled Goddess of Blood, Goddess of Love:
Divinity and Power in the Devi Mahatmya and Vindhyachal Temple (SUNY)
forthcomin by Cynthia Ann Humes :In Gurudev\'s Words: the Everyday
Teachings of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati.  Hindi speeches compiled by
Rameswar Tiwari.  English translation from the Hindi and Sanskrit,
Edited, with Commentary and Annotation which focuses on the cult of
Vindhyavasini and contemporary recitation of the goddess text known as
the Devi Mahatmya.
She  is also interested in ritual and sacrifice, and Transcendental
Meditation in the United States.
Cynthia completed her Ph.D. in Asian Religions at the University of
Iowa, where she specialized in Sanskrit literature and Indic religions.
She has been a research scholar at Banaras Hindu University, and is a
Foreign Language Area Studies, Fulbright, NEH, Woodrow Wilson, and
American Institute of Indian Studies Fellow.

She also co-edited and contributed to Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in
Cultural Contex contributed chapters to this compilation of essays on
the city long considered the most sacred pilgrimage site of Hinduism.
This work attempts to provide greater insight into Hindu religion by
interrogating and broadening the category of what  have  been
traditionally classified as religious, as well as by examining
phenomena through a multidisciplinary lens, especially through recent
fieldwork rather than mere texts.
http://www.amazon.com/Living-Banaras-Religion-Cultural-Context/dp/079141\
3322

In A Meeting with Imam Khumayni  an authentic historical document and
testimony describing   the experience of thousands or perhaps millions
of human beings who have had an opportunity to encounter the great
charisma, charm, and faith emanated by an authentic disciple of
Islaminclude list of his publication

http://www.al-islam.org/al-tawhid/kashkul.htm

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, at_man_and_brahman
at_man_and_brahman@... wrote:

 Would you care to share the specifics of the questions (assuming you
remember them)?

 Also, given that you appear to be perhaps the only person in history
to have gained unity consciousness and then later denounced it as some
sort of put-on or hype or illusion, do you believe there's a real form
of higher spirituality? If so, what do you think it is and how might one
progress toward it?

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@ wrote:
 
 
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, at_man_and_brahman
at_man_and_brahman@ wrote:
  
   Hi. I'm a long-term lurker and very occasional poster on FFL. I
had a close high school friend who went to MIU a few years before I did.
He, as a freshman, attended your meetings and got royally confused and
left MIU and the Movement, enrolling in Messiah College. From Maharishi
to Messiah. These days, he's a Calvinist.
  
   By the time I got to MIU as a staff member, it was clear that RC
was a dirty word. I picked up bits and pieces of the melodrama during
that time and in later years.
  
   If you would, please tell me what the questions were you put to
Maharishi in the lawsuit and what his responses were. I've wondered that
for years.
 
  RESPONSE: Nothing wrong with being a Calvinist, I think. Those
questions put to Maharishi (and the sounds he made in answer to them)
are part of an incredibly complicated legal and dramatic conflict
between MIU and the Movement I was creating. When (as it were) a gun was
put to Maharishi's head, he refused pointblank to endorse my tampering
with the Sidhis by acknowledging my enlightenment. The questions were
designed to extort from Maharishi a response which would have meant the
destruction of the purity of The Teaching. By his perfunctory answers
(to speak euphemistically) he gave expression to his extreme unhappiness
that I by my sincere but quixotic actions had created in him. The tape
of his responses—played in court by Bevan Morris—was strangely
and inexplicably unsatisfactory. Nevertheless, the questions—all
about my putative enlightenment and my right to amend the
sidhis—were answered (if one can count 

[FairfieldLife] Re: question for MZ

2012-06-19 Thread merudanda
sorry wrong excerpt chapter from SACRED SCHISMS: How Religions Divide by
James R. Lewis  Sarah M. Lewis,
I'm sorryPlease forgive meThank you
I love you
Happy Ho'oponopono loving yourself to everyone.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@... wrote:

 The four questions were:
 1. Is Robin Carlsen Enlightened?
 2. Are the Techniques for the Discovery of Grace compatible with the
 Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program?
 3. Is Robin Carlsen's teaching in the World Teacher Seminar a
violation
 of the purity of the teaching of the Holy Tradition of Maharishi and
 Guru Dev?
 4. It is Maharishi's desire that Meditators, Sidhas, and Governors of
 the Age of Enlightenment not influenced by Robin Woodsworth Carlsen's
 ideas, seminars, or his techniques?

 http://tinyurl.com/c78cwta

 from Vincent P. McCARTHY, Plaintiff,. v. The IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR
 JEFFERSON COUNTY, Defendant. No. 84-1768. Court of Appeals of Iowa
 Discussion by Cynthia Ann Humes
 http://tinyurl.com/bmvea2k
 SACRED SCHISMS: How Religions Divide by James R. Lewis  Sarah M.
Lewis,
 Schisms within Hindu guru groups: the Transcendental Meditation
movement
 in North America  pp. 287-305

 Interesting in a book entitled Goddess of Blood, Goddess of Love:
 Divinity and Power in the Devi Mahatmya and Vindhyachal Temple (SUNY)
 forthcomin by Cynthia Ann Humes :In Gurudev\'s Words: the Everyday
 Teachings of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati.  Hindi speeches compiled by
 Rameswar Tiwari.  English translation from the Hindi and Sanskrit,
 Edited, with Commentary and Annotation which focuses on the cult of
 Vindhyavasini and contemporary recitation of the goddess text known as
 the Devi Mahatmya.
 She  is also interested in ritual and sacrifice, and Transcendental
 Meditation in the United States.
 Cynthia completed her Ph.D. in Asian Religions at the University of
 Iowa, where she specialized in Sanskrit literature and Indic
religions.
 She has been a research scholar at Banaras Hindu University, and is a
 Foreign Language Area Studies, Fulbright, NEH, Woodrow Wilson, and
 American Institute of Indian Studies Fellow.

 She also co-edited and contributed to Living Banaras: Hindu Religion
in
 Cultural Contex contributed chapters to this compilation of essays on
 the city long considered the most sacred pilgrimage site of Hinduism.
 This work attempts to provide greater insight into Hindu religion by
 interrogating and broadening the category of what  have  been
 traditionally classified as religious, as well as by examining
 phenomena through a multidisciplinary lens, especially through recent
 fieldwork rather than mere texts.

http://www.amazon.com/Living-Banaras-Religion-Cultural-Context/dp/079141\
\
 3322

 In A Meeting with Imam Khumayni  an authentic historical document
and
 testimony describing   the experience of thousands or perhaps
millions
 of human beings who have had an opportunity to encounter the great
 charisma, charm, and faith emanated by an authentic disciple of
 Islaminclude list of his publication

 http://www.al-islam.org/al-tawhid/kashkul.htm

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, at_man_and_brahman
 at_man_and_brahman@ wrote:
 
  Would you care to share the specifics of the questions (assuming you
 remember them)?
 
  Also, given that you appear to be perhaps the only person in history
 to have gained unity consciousness and then later denounced it as
some
 sort of put-on or hype or illusion, do you believe there's a real form
 of higher spirituality? If so, what do you think it is and how might
one
 progress toward it?
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@ wrote:
  
  
  
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, at_man_and_brahman
 at_man_and_brahman@ wrote:
   
Hi. I'm a long-term lurker and very occasional poster on FFL. I
 had a close high school friend who went to MIU a few years before I
did.
 He, as a freshman, attended your meetings and got royally confused and
 left MIU and the Movement, enrolling in Messiah College. From
Maharishi
 to Messiah. These days, he's a Calvinist.
   
By the time I got to MIU as a staff member, it was clear that RC
 was a dirty word. I picked up bits and pieces of the melodrama during
 that time and in later years.
   
If you would, please tell me what the questions were you put to
 Maharishi in the lawsuit and what his responses were. I've wondered
that
 for years.
  
   RESPONSE: Nothing wrong with being a Calvinist, I think. Those
 questions put to Maharishi (and the sounds he made in answer to them)
 are part of an incredibly complicated legal and dramatic conflict
 between MIU and the Movement I was creating. When (as it were) a gun
was
 put to Maharishi's head, he refused pointblank to endorse my tampering
 with the Sidhis by acknowledging my enlightenment. The questions were
 designed to extort from Maharishi a response which would have meant
the
 destruction of the purity of The Teaching. By his perfunctory answers
 (to speak 

[FairfieldLife] Re: question for MZ

2011-06-23 Thread maskedzebra


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, at_man_and_brahman 
at_man_and_brahman@... wrote:

 Hi. I'm a long-term lurker and very occasional poster on FFL. I had a close 
 high school friend who went to MIU a few years before I did. He, as a 
 freshman, attended your meetings and got royally confused and left MIU and 
 the Movement, enrolling in Messiah College. From Maharishi to Messiah. These 
 days, he's a Calvinist. 
 
 By the time I got to MIU as a staff member, it was clear that RC was a dirty 
 word. I picked up bits and pieces of the melodrama during that time and in 
 later years. 
 
 If you would, please tell me what the questions were you put to Maharishi in 
 the lawsuit and what his responses were. I've wondered that for years.

RESPONSE: Nothing wrong with being a Calvinist, I think. Those questions put to 
Maharishi (and the sounds he made in answer to them) are part of an incredibly 
complicated legal and dramatic conflict between MIU and the Movement I was 
creating. When (as it were) a gun was put to Maharishi's head, he refused 
pointblank to endorse my tampering with the Sidhis by acknowledging my 
enlightenment. The questions were designed to extort from Maharishi a response 
which would have meant the destruction of the purity of The Teaching. By his 
perfunctory answers (to speak euphemistically) he gave expression to his 
extreme unhappiness that I by my sincere but quixotic actions had created in 
him. The tape of his responses—played in court by Bevan Morris—was strangely 
and inexplicably unsatisfactory. Nevertheless, the questions—all about my 
putative enlightenment and my right to amend the sidhis—were answered (if one 
can count audible short grunts as answers) in the negative.

But Maharishi himself appeared to be intensely ambivalent about the whole 
thing. Which is why, accordingly, he instructed (I just heard about this 
recently), Bevan to leave Robin alone.

That Maharishi guy, he was really something.The only real romance of my life.

THere is a book in which the lawyers involved in this dispute are quoted 
extensively. It's called Sacred Schisms, and I believe it can be downloaded—but 
I'm not sure about this.

I wish your friend well; if I may be permitted to say it, I think him 
infinitely better off returning to Christianity than remaining at MIU. For I 
think Christianity (Roman Catholicism) ONCE was the Truth. It's just that God 
has withdrawn himself from his Church. Which is why and how the Eastern gods 
invaded the West with impunity. They couldn't do this on such a massive scale 
before. But I have gone beyond what you have asked me.





[FairfieldLife] Re: question for MZ

2011-06-23 Thread at_man_and_brahman
Would you care to share the specifics of the questions (assuming you remember 
them)?

Also, given that you appear to be perhaps the only person in history to have 
gained unity consciousness and then later denounced it as some sort of put-on 
or hype or illusion, do you believe there's a real form of higher spirituality? 
If so, what do you think it is and how might one progress toward it?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, at_man_and_brahman 
 at_man_and_brahman@ wrote:
 
  Hi. I'm a long-term lurker and very occasional poster on FFL. I had a close 
  high school friend who went to MIU a few years before I did. He, as a 
  freshman, attended your meetings and got royally confused and left MIU and 
  the Movement, enrolling in Messiah College. From Maharishi to Messiah. 
  These days, he's a Calvinist. 
  
  By the time I got to MIU as a staff member, it was clear that RC was a 
  dirty word. I picked up bits and pieces of the melodrama during that time 
  and in later years. 
  
  If you would, please tell me what the questions were you put to Maharishi 
  in the lawsuit and what his responses were. I've wondered that for years.
 
 RESPONSE: Nothing wrong with being a Calvinist, I think. Those questions put 
 to Maharishi (and the sounds he made in answer to them) are part of an 
 incredibly complicated legal and dramatic conflict between MIU and the 
 Movement I was creating. When (as it were) a gun was put to Maharishi's head, 
 he refused pointblank to endorse my tampering with the Sidhis by 
 acknowledging my enlightenment. The questions were designed to extort from 
 Maharishi a response which would have meant the destruction of the purity of 
 The Teaching. By his perfunctory answers (to speak euphemistically) he gave 
 expression to his extreme unhappiness that I by my sincere but quixotic 
 actions had created in him. The tape of his responses—played in court by 
 Bevan Morris—was strangely and inexplicably unsatisfactory. Nevertheless, the 
 questions—all about my putative enlightenment and my right to amend the 
 sidhis—were answered (if one can count audible short grunts as answers) in 
 the negative.
 
 But Maharishi himself appeared to be intensely ambivalent about the whole 
 thing. Which is why, accordingly, he instructed (I just heard about this 
 recently), Bevan to leave Robin alone.
 
 That Maharishi guy, he was really something.The only real romance of my life.
 
 THere is a book in which the lawyers involved in this dispute are quoted 
 extensively. It's called Sacred Schisms, and I believe it can be 
 downloaded—but I'm not sure about this.
 
 I wish your friend well; if I may be permitted to say it, I think him 
 infinitely better off returning to Christianity than remaining at MIU. For I 
 think Christianity (Roman Catholicism) ONCE was the Truth. It's just that God 
 has withdrawn himself from his Church. Which is why and how the Eastern gods 
 invaded the West with impunity. They couldn't do this on such a massive scale 
 before. But I have gone beyond what you have asked me.