[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-08-02 Thread Robert Gimbel
--What's the still mind thingy as mentioned below.. anyone know? - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 24, 2005, at 1:32 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: --- In

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-08-02 Thread Peter
--- Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --What's the still mind thingy as mentioned below.. anyone know? Atma vichara or Self-Inquiry, part of the Ramana Maharishi tradition. - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would love to hear more about the Inquisiton lifetime. Will I have to read your book? The personal parts won't necessarily be in the book, except as local color. It'll be fiction. To subscribe, send a

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/22/05 6:18 AM, t3rinity at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you know Hartmut Beyerbach? He was a friend of mine and used to run the press. I think he left in 1977 or so. YES. Yes, he was my first boss. We

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes this was Norbert. He was a big fan of an initiator who imagined himself having been Ernst Röhm, chief of the SA who was executed by

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/23/05 9:16 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I was teaching TTC I told Maharishi that I often had the experience that people would ask a question to which I didn't know the answer, but that I

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually I am not too well versed with history. I think he was a competitor to SS chief Himmler, so I think Himmler had his hand in it. Also Röhm tried to overthrow Hitler and got caught. Yeah, fun times all

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread Peter Sutphen
--- sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/23/05 9:16 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I was teaching TTC I told Maharishi that I often had the experience that people would ask a question to

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread Rick Archer
on 6/24/05 7:55 AM, t3rinity at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boy, he really got around. Wonder where he is now. Maybe still with Arjuna? He told me that there was another guy in the press who was enlightened called Arjuna, whith whom he was in the US. At that time he was living in the US

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread lupidus108
Yep, MMY never had any clue about anything he's talking about. He just read from some script prepared for him by Sanskrit scholars because he couldn't read sanskrit... Have you been in 10 hour meetings with MMY - have you seen the scripts, the literally kilos of scripts this would

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread lupidus108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank god he didn't have formal training. If he had he never would have left India and taught to the West. I'll take Blazing Brahman over formal training any day of the week! What happened to you Doc. - since

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread Rick Archer
on 6/24/05 10:20 AM, lupidus108 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, MMY never had any clue about anything he's talking about. He just read from some script prepared for him by Sanskrit scholars because he couldn't read sanskrit... Have you been in 10 hour meetings with MMY - have you seen

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lupidus108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happened to you Doc. - since when did you become positive to MMY ? Or are you back on to TM ? :-) To understand Dr. Pete we must simply be the same Blazing Brahman of perfect paradox he and MMY are :-) To

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread Vaj
On Jun 23, 2005, at 10:16 PM, sparaig wrote: Yep, MMY never had any clue about anything he's talking about. He just read from some script prepared for him by Sanskrit scholars because he couldn't read sanskrit... Are you being sarcastic or do you really mean what you said? To subscribe,

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 23, 2005, at 10:16 PM, sparaig wrote: Yep, MMY never had any clue about anything he's talking about. He just read from some script prepared for him by Sanskrit scholars because he couldn't read sanskrit... Are

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread lupidus108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/24/05 10:20 AM, lupidus108 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, MMY never had any clue about anything he's talking about. He just read from some script prepared for him by Sanskrit scholars because he couldn't

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll take Blazing Brahman over formal training any day of the week! Now you've done it. First it was 'shaktipat' that was ruined for me with weird associations, then 'Willytex,' and now you've mentioned 'Blazing

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lupidus108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, MMY never had any clue about anything he's talking about. He just read from some script prepared for him by Sanskrit scholars because he couldn't read sanskrit... Have you been in 10 hour meetings

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 23, 2005, at 10:16 PM, sparaig wrote: Yep, MMY never had any clue about anything he's talking about. He just read from some script prepared for him by Sanskrit scholars because he couldn't read sanskrit... Are

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread lupidus108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lupidus108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, MMY never had any clue about anything he's talking about. He just read from some script prepared for him by Sanskrit scholars

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread Vaj
On Jun 24, 2005, at 12:29 PM, sparaig wrote: That was my point. People on this forum have said that MMY was not a real teacher, and certainly not qualified to be Shankaracharya, becaues he wasn't a Sanskrit scholar. Therefore he had to be coached on everything he was saying by someone

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing you can say about a Master is that a Master does not merely dispense teaching by puja but by adhikara--your own unique needs, a personal authorization for practice...or at least provides you with skillful means

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread Vaj
On Jun 24, 2005, at 1:32 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing you can say about a Master is that a Master does not merely dispense teaching by puja but by adhikara--your own unique needs, a personal authorization for

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 24, 2005, at 1:32 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing you can say about a Master is that a Master does not merely dispense teaching by puja but

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread Rick Archer
on 6/24/05 11:47 AM, lupidus108 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Grief, your understanding is simple to say the least; Guru Dev wanted Maharishi to become Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math being that rare person who lived His teachings. But He understood it (obviously) to be impossible since

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip It's almost hilarious this adulation which fringes on the insane. There's adulation which fringes on the insane and puts the teacher on a pedestal, and then there's disgust with knee-jerk, pile-on, often unfair and/or

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 24, 2005, at 12:29 PM, sparaig wrote: That was my point. People on this forum have said that MMY was not a real teacher, and certainly not qualified to be Shankaracharya, becaues he wasn't a Sanskrit scholar.

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 24, 2005, at 1:32 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing you can say about a Master is that a Master does not merely dispense teaching by puja but

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/24/05 11:47 AM, lupidus108 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Grief, your understanding is simple to say the least; Guru Dev wanted Maharishi to become Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math being that rare person who

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip It's almost hilarious this adulation which fringes on the insane. There's adulation which fringes on the insane and puts the teacher on a

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-24 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 24, 2005, at 1:32 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing you can say about a Master is that a Master does not merely dispense teaching by puja but

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. I am of course not referring to the TM itself, but to the explanation that is given especially at the second day checking, that is stress release, and thought being an expression of it. The idea that stresses,

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An elephant has two kinds of teeth, two to show and two to chew. Elephants are sure getting their fifteen minutes of fame here lately. :-) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. I am of course not referring to the TM itself, but to the explanation that is given especially at the second day checking, that is

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Jeff Fischer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You become conscious of something hiding in the unconscious and get rid of it thereby. You don't find this in the indian Samskar theory. Can you describe the Indian Samskar theory? Jeff To subscribe, send a message

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Llundrub
Can you describe the Indian Samskar theory?Jeff---I think different times of the day have different melodies. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Jeff Fischer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you describe the Indian Samskar theory? Jeff ---I think different times of the day have different melodies. Like Merry Melodies? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you describe the Indian Samskar theory? Jeff ---I think different times of the day have different melodies. Like Merry

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Hubbard modelled his Dianetics after Psychtherapy. He surely was aware of Samskaras, but in Indian thought samkaras are usually not being rid of by just making them conscious. This is typically Freud. You become

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Hubbard modelled his Dianetics after Psychtherapy. He surely was aware of Samskaras, but in Indian thought samkaras are usually not being

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Yes, understood. But in Indian terms, getting rid of Samskaras wouldn't necessitate reliving the energy of it. In Indian and I guess Buddhist terms, Samskaras are desires or latent impressions giving rise to the

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You become conscious of something hiding in the unconscious and get rid of it thereby. You don't find this in the indian Samskar theory.

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The explanation is phantastic. Thats the upside. The downside is, that if you believe in it, you are hooked up to a kind of cypernetic model of having to do something, and unless you do it, i.e. release stresses one

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. I am of course not referring to the TM itself, but to the explanation that is given especially at the second day checking, that is

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] MMY never said that anyway. He said that stress is repaired during the inward stroke of TM, and that thoughts arise as part of the activity of repair. If there was no repair to be made (no samskaras left), no

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip What I remember being told is that the content of thoughts that arise likely have nothing at all to do with the content of the stresses

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Jeff Fischer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, when did Hubbard start talking about things in terms of stress? Hans Selye didn't coin the word until relatively recently. Hubbard talked about things in terms of survival, not stress. Jeff To subscribe, send a

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .Let's say you expect a friend to come, and you will associate the *feeling* with the present event. But the feeling will be reminescent of the stress being released according to 2nd day checking. I remember we were

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Jeff Fischer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: samskara: Impression. The imprint or traces left in the mind after an experience, whether in this or previous lives. Root impressions, especially from profound events, which mold character and guide actions. t3rinity,

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: samskara: Impression. The imprint or traces left in the mind after an experience, whether in this or previous lives. Root impressions,

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Similarely in TM the stresses are being released when the thought arises. I am not aware that in indian theory the arising of thought is seen as getting rid of Samkaras. I am not saying that it cannot work. I am just

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Jeff Fischer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My notes say: (translated from german): 'The quality of the stress determines the quality of thought.' Then it gives the example I just had given, of the joy causing a stress in the past, and how the mind picks up the

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .Let's say you expect a friend to come, and you will associate the *feeling* with the present event. But the feeling will be reminescent of

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Dianetics, one would not have to relive all such imprints to become Clear. The collapse of the Reactive Bank (that portion of the mind that works on a totally stimulus-response basis) can occur rather quickly -

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Llundrub
Samsaras are anything that revolves like a wheel lifting one up and then casting one down. All of life is like this. All our emotions are like this. You cannot dig out hatred because it is a natural emotion. You cannot dig out any emotion, or get rid of anything because if you're alive

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Jeff Fischer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess in not being overshadowed by the experience, i.e. just being the witness? In a sense, yes. A goal of Scientology is to be stably exterior which would be the equivalent of witnessing 24/7. As you continue to

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem here is that TM (like scientology) assumes that the stresses are located physically. Thats not the same with the samskara theory. Therefore it assumes that you have to release them one by one, resulting

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread t3rinity
Like it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Samsaras are anything that revolves like a wheel lifting one up and then casting one down. All of life is like this. All our emotions are like this. You cannot dig out hatred because it is a natural emotion. You

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess in not being overshadowed by the experience, i.e. just being the witness? In a sense, yes. A goal of Scientology is to be stably

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread jim_flanegin
- Original Message - From: t3rinity To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 2:13 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques) Like it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh shit,

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and thanks Jeff, for yours. I enjoy hearing about the Dianetics stuff because specific terminology aside, it is a wonderful explanation of the psycho-dynamics we engage in with ourselves, seeing thoughts and

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Jeff Fischer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My thanks as well. You explain Scientology very clearly and with feeling. The feeling comes through. Unc Aw shucks, Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My notes say: (translated from german): 'The quality of the stress determines the quality of thought.' Then it gives the example I just

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Scientology, the stresses (engrams) are not located physically. When one dramatizes the earlier event, one will reexperience the physical pain associated with it. Got your head chopped in the French Revolution

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess in not being overshadowed by the experience, i.e. just being the witness? In a sense, yes. A goal of Scientology is to be

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My thanks as well. You explain Scientology very clearly and with feeling. The feeling comes through. Aw shucks, Unc I'm just saying

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh shit, aren't you the guy who hates everything I say? Now what am I gonna do? Nothing. And with style. Makes all the difference. :-)

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Do you remember a German guy named Norbert from that course? Yes, Norbert Weiss from cologne. He was quite a character Do you know Walter Schemper. Was on Vittel TTC around '75 or'76. Blondish Hair, Blue Eyes.

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Jeff Fischer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He first was in Cologne and then went to Nuremberg where I am from. Thanks for the update. Your English is incredibly gut. I studied German in gymnasium (FisCher) but all I really rememeber is Noch zwei, bitte when I

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Jeff Fischer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very nicely said. You're good at this, Jeff. Do you get a chance to perform auditing yourself, or other- wise teach within the organization? Unc Thanks. Yes, I'm an auditor and lecturer. I deal mostly with people

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread TurquoiseB
Very nicely said. You're good at this, Jeff. Do you get a chance to perform auditing yourself, or other- wise teach within the organization? Thanks. Yes, I'm an auditor and lecturer. I deal mostly with people for whom it is all brand new. Cool. Back in the TM world, I used to

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Jeff Fischer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just saying it because IMO it's good to get feedback on that sorta thing from time to time. Being able to express one's dharma in writing in a way that reaches people intellectually is one thing. Being able to

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I first got in to TM I was such a zealot that my friends would start to roll their eyes whenever I came around. I finally got it and stopped taliking about it. Yet, after a full year of consciously not

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Jeff Fischer
There's an old New Yorker cartoon that I loved. It's at a typical NY cocktail party, two people in the foreground are talking to each other. Across the room is a guy with a kind of beatific smile on his face and no one around him. One of the guys in the foreground is saying to the other,

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes this was Norbert. He was a big fan of an initiator who imagined himself having been Ernst Röhm, chief of the SA who was executed by Hitler later on. My understanding is that it was specifically Hermann Goering who

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes this was Norbert. He was a big fan of an initiator who imagined himself having been Ernst Röhm, chief of the SA who was executed by

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He first was in Cologne and then went to Nuremberg where I am from. Thanks for the update. Your English is incredibly gut. I studied

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Jeff Fischer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lower case: Alt + 0252 ü Upper case: Alt + 0220 Ü http://www.starr.net/is/type/altnum.htm Danke, Card. :-) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool. Back in the TM world, I used to like doing intro lectures. I wound up giving a lot of advanced lectures at centers and residence courses, but to be honest the best thing I liked about them was not the prepared

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Rick Archer
on 6/23/05 3:41 PM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very nicely said. You're good at this, Jeff. Do you get a chance to perform auditing yourself, or other- wise teach within the organization? Thanks. Yes, I'm an auditor and lecturer. I deal mostly with people for whom it is

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/23/05 3:41 PM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very nicely said. You're good at this, Jeff. Do you get a chance to perform auditing yourself, or other- wise teach within the organization? Thanks.

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My notes say: (translated from german): 'The quality of the stress determines the quality of thought.' Then it gives the example I just

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Dianetics, one would not have to relive all such imprints to become Clear. The collapse of the Reactive Bank (that portion of the

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem here is that TM (like scientology) assumes that the stresses are located physically. Thats not the same with the samskara theory.

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/23/05 3:41 PM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very nicely said. You're good at this, Jeff. Do you get a chance to perform auditing yourself, or other- wise teach within the organization? Thanks.

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Rick Archer
on 6/23/05 9:16 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I was teaching TTC I told Maharishi that I often had the experience that people would ask a question to which I didn't know the answer, but that I would start with a few words and then the answer would just come out. Maharishi

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Rick Archer
on 6/22/05 6:18 AM, t3rinity at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you know Hartmut Beyerbach? He was a friend of mine and used to run the press. I think he left in 1977 or so. YES. Yes, he was my first boss. We left on the same day the press, he for 6 month course and I for phase I. (After him

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Peter Sutphen
--- Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/22/05 6:18 AM, t3rinity at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you know Hartmut Beyerbach? He was a friend of mine and used to run the press. I think he left in 1977 or so. YES. Yes, he was my first boss. We left on the same day the press,

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-23 Thread Peter Sutphen
--- anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-22 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, MY understanding is that MMY used Shankara's description of meditation as dying the cloth, combined with the traditional Patanjali discussion of mind fluctuations, all wrapped up in western terminology ala

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-22 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could the vast majority be characterized as from a particular sector, e.g. fundamentalist or conservative Christian? It always seemed to me

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-22 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/21/05 5:17 AM, t3rinity at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of the time in the movement I was sort of on an island within the movement, agroup between 10 to max. 30 people, who were sworn together, and that was

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-22 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, MY understanding is that MMY used Shankara's description of meditation as dying the cloth, combined with the traditional Patanjali

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-22 Thread Vaj
I have followed with some interest the career of rocket scientist John Jack Parsons and Hubbard. In fact Parsons just had a new biography published. Hubbard and Parsons worked together on a ritual called the Babalon working which was a rite to incarnate Babalon, essentially a form of Kali, in

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-22 Thread Vaj
On Jun 22, 2005, at 10:16 AM, Vaj wrote: I have followed with some interest the career of rocket scientist John Jack Parsons and Hubbard. In fact Parsons just had a new biography published. Here a online review of the biography of Jack Parsons called Strange Angel: The Otherwordly Life Of

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-22 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is all very Gnostic. In fact if one looks closely at Hubbards system, it clearly has parallels to the Neoplatonic idea of the *idios daemon*--the personal Daemon That would be more like a Guardian Spirit? Not the BT's,

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-22 Thread Vaj
On Jun 22, 2005, at 11:32 AM, t3rinity wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is all very Gnostic. In fact if one looks closely at Hubbards system, it clearly has parallels to the Neoplatonic idea of the *idios daemon*--the personal Daemon That

[FairfieldLife] A Sense of Sangha (was Re: balancing techniques)

2005-06-22 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, MY understanding is that MMY used Shankara's description

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