[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment..

2005-11-08 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "brahmachari108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > --- brahmachari108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > snip > > > > > > > > > > > Reading your words and most others o

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment..

2005-11-07 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "brahmachari108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "brahmachari108" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yah

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment..

2005-11-07 Thread brahmachari108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "brahmachari108" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > Are you and I even all that different

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment..

2005-11-07 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "brahmachari108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you and I even all that different? > > > > We are One but we are quite different. > Explain please? -

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment..

2005-11-07 Thread brahmachari108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 1, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Peter wrote: > > > > > > > --- brahmachari108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > snip > > > > > >> > >> Reading your words and most others on their > >> proclamations betrays the level of so cal

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment..

2005-11-07 Thread brahmachari108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "brahmachari108" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoog

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment..

2005-11-07 Thread brahmachari108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- brahmachari108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > snip > > > > > > > > Reading your words and most others on their > > > proclamations betrays the level of so called > > > enlightenment. > > > Do you think th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-11-02 Thread Vaj
On Nov 2, 2005, at 1:17 AM, sparaig wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Nov 1, 2005, at 3:38 PM, brahmachari108 wrote: Notions of CC, GC, UC are inventions of Mahesh Yogi. Where in Veda are these mentioned? What is above or below in the state of Turiya

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-11-01 Thread Robert Gimbel
Yes, speaking from personal experience, is the gift. Knowledge in the books, stays in the books; Until someone can live what is written. It's all just words on a page. In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PRO

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-11-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 1, 2005, at 3:38 PM, brahmachari108 wrote: > > > Notions of CC, GC, UC are inventions of Mahesh Yogi. > > Where in Veda are these mentioned? > > What is above or below in the state of Turiya? > > > CC = samkhya an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment..

2005-11-01 Thread Vaj
On Nov 1, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Peter wrote: > > > --- brahmachari108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > snip > > >> >> Reading your words and most others on their >> proclamations betrays the level of so called >> enlightenment. >> Do you think that if someone were truly enlightened, >> he would feel th

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment..

2005-11-01 Thread anonymousff
> --- brahmachari108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > snip > > > > > Reading your words and most others on their > > proclamations betrays the level of so called > > enlightenment. > > Do you think that if someone were truly enlightened, > > he would feel the need to tell > > "others?" What "oth

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment..

2005-11-01 Thread Peter
--- brahmachari108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip > > Reading your words and most others on their > proclamations betrays the level of so called > enlightenment. > Do you think that if someone were truly enlightened, > he would feel the need to tell > "others?" What "other" exists in enligh

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment..

2005-11-01 Thread Vaj
On Nov 1, 2005, at 3:55 PM, brahmachari108 wrote: > Reading your words and most others on their proclamations betrays > the level of so called > enlightenment. > Do you think that if someone were truly enlightened, he would feel > the need to tell > "others?" What "other" exists in enlightenm

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-11-01 Thread Vaj
On Nov 1, 2005, at 3:38 PM, brahmachari108 wrote: > Notions of CC, GC, UC are inventions of Mahesh Yogi. > Where in Veda are these mentioned? > What is above or below in the state of Turiya? CC = samkhya and yoga GC = mimamsa and Vaishnava devotionalism. UC = Badarayana sutras and numerous oth

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment..

2005-11-01 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "brahmachari108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "brahmachari108" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > snip > > > > > > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment..

2005-11-01 Thread brahmachari108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "brahmachari108" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > snip > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paula Youmans" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-11-01 Thread brahmachari108
> > > > > > Objectively? > > > > > > I belive MMY says that levitation is proof of samadhi. > > > > > > I suppose this means that if a person who is a known TMSP-practitioner > > > repeatedly can take-off, hoover and settle down in a controlled > > > manner, chances are this person is CC or abo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-16 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...mucho snipt...] > > No, we're talking about a definition of, or criteria > > for, real levitation. *You* brought up the notion of > > "proo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-16 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > No, we're talking about a definition of, or criteria > > for, real levitation. *You* brought up the notion of > > "proof" for the pur

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-16 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > Lawson is talking about a *theoretical* way of verifying > > > > something he has never witnessed. He's talking about a > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-16 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Apples and oranges, Judy. If Lawson wer

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-16 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Lawson is talking about a *theoretical* way of verifying > > > something he has never witnessed. He's talking about a > > > theoretical way that someone who believes in something > > > could use to convince someon

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-16 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 10/15/05 10:54 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Maybe I'm wrong, or maybe none ofthem are attempting to beat the > > world record. The olympic level athletes reportedly have at least > > short-term h

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-16 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I'm talking about events like the New York City > > Marathon that all kinds of ordinary people run > > in, BTW--people who have regular

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-16 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Apples and oranges, Judy. If Lawson were saying he > > had *witnessed* true levitation, then we'd be comparing > > apples to apple

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-16 Thread TurquoiseB
> > > > > > The kind of levitation/floating that MMY claims to be > > > > > > referring to is the kind that you can photograph and > > > > > > perform > > > > > > before a skeptical audience. > > > > > > > > > > Hmmm. I would be one of those skeptics. Exactly where, > > > > > after 30 years o

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-15 Thread Rick Archer
on 10/15/05 10:54 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Maybe I'm wrong, or maybe none ofthem are attempting to beat the > world record. The olympic level athletes reportedly have at least > short-term health problems after the run. This topic has morphed. It would be good to change the sub

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfrie

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > I don't know that running a marathon could b

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 15, 2005, at 9:39 AM, authfriend wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Typical. Avoid the question. Why are you afraid to answer that > >> question Judy? > > > > Vaj, the qu

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-15 Thread Vaj
On Oct 15, 2005, at 9:39 AM, authfriend wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Oct 14, 2005, at 3:38 PM, authfriend wrote: >> >> The Patanjali sutras are yoga/samkhya darshana Judy and what is the result of yoga darshana Judy? I'll giv

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am also not sure any more whether the technique > actually *does* anything or whether it merely > tricks practitioners into forgetting that they > *can't* do something, and as a result, they can. That sounds like the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
> > > My guess is that there is some level on which most > > > yogic flyers don't *really* believe true levitation > > > (i.e., hovering and beyond, not just Really Big Hops) > > > is possible. They may believe it on an intellectual > > > basis, but not in their gut. > > > > Exactly. I think tha

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > I am also convinced that many of them al

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Whatever floats your boat, I guess. > > Are you addicted to your boat floating? I think you may be onto something here. The thought of the opposite gives me a sinking fee

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I am also convinced that many of them also have reached the required > > physiological degree of purity to sustain that state which

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
> > > The kind of levitation/floating that MMY claims to be > > > referring to is the kind that you can photograph and > > > perform before a skeptical audience. > > > > Hmmm. I would be one of those skeptics. Exactly where, > > after 30 years or so, are these photographs that show > > "the ki

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread akasha_108
TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whatever floats your boat, I guess. Are you addicted to your boat floating? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I am also convinced that many of them also have reached the required > > physiological degree of purity to sustain that state wh

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am also convinced that many of them also have reached the required > physiological degree of purity to sustain that state which allows > them to levitate, but that the ambient atmosphere is fore-checking > this an

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I suspect it all depends upon the level of conditioning > > that the fanatic was exposed to. Consider fanatical > > sects within

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Vaj
On Oct 14, 2005, at 1:09 PM, peterklutz wrote:I think serious seekers in the TMO are far closer to E than they might realize, the reason being the fact that they live in a world (until this summer) controlled by Kali. Didn't M. say the opposite, that people would be surprised (at how advanced the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread peterklutz
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > The kind of levitation/floating that MMY claims t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
> > > > > > > > Haven't you ever considered the possibility that > > > > > > > > Maharishi just said that to get people to pay a > > > > > > > > lot of money for his made-up "Patanjali" tech- > > > > > > > > niques, and to keep practicing them? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Okay, I am getting a bit

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suspect it all depends upon the level of conditioning > that the fanatic was exposed to. Consider fanatical > sects within the Catholic Church or Muslim faith or > whatever, in which doubt is not only not tolerated,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Haven't you ever considered the possibility that > > > > > > > Maharishi just said that to get people to pay a > > > > > > > lot of money for his made-up "Patanjali" tech- > > > > > > > niques, and to keep

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
> > > > > > Haven't you ever considered the possibility that > > > > > > Maharishi just said that to get people to pay a > > > > > > lot of money for his made-up "Patanjali" tech- > > > > > > niques, and to keep practicing them? > > > > > > > > > > Okay, I am getting a bit confused here. > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogro

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.c

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfrien

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > (Oh, and the techniques aren't "made-u

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > (Oh, and the techniques aren't "made-up 'Pat

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Peter
--- TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- sparaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > snip > > > > > > The kind of levitation/floating that MMY claims > to > > > be referring to is > > > the kind that you can ph

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > (Oh, and the techniques aren't "made-up 'Patanjali' > > techniques." You might want to have a look at the > > Yoga Sutras sometime.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- sparaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > snip > > > > The kind of levitation/floating that MMY claims to > > be referring to is > > the kind that you can photograph and perform before > > a skeptical > > audience. > > B

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > > > > Haven't you ever considered the possibility

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Don't know about less experienced TMSP practitioners, but there's the > > Vastu thing to consider, andof course, the claim that the Mah

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > The kind of levitation/floating that MMY claims to be referring to > is the kind that you can photograph and perform before a skeptical

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Paula Youmans
Objectively? I belive MMY says that levitation is proof of samadhi. I suppose this means that if a person who is a known TMSP-practitioner repeatedly can take-off, hoover and settle down in a controlled manner, chances are this person is CC or above.   I’m thinking if what has a

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Paula Youmans
So, when we stop living the surrealistic reality of our assumed limitations, and become free, we are said to then be 'enlightened'. But it is merely relative to what our past experience has been.     Hi Jim …thanks for your reply. I was thinking about that line you wrote above

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Peter
--- sparaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip > > The kind of levitation/floating that MMY claims to > be referring to is > the kind that you can photograph and perform before > a skeptical > audience. But this has never happened, right? So why not talk about the man in the moon? > > > >

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Peter
--- TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > Haven't you ever considered the possibility that > > > > Maharishi just

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Vaj
On Oct 14, 2005, at 3:07 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:On the other hand, I disagree completely with levitation being any measure of one's state of consciousness.  It's  just a skill.  You can either do it or you can't.  It don't say bupkus about your state of consciousness.   If it was then you'd have to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Haven't you ever considered the possibility that > > Maharishi just said that to get people to pay a > > lot of money for his made-

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Vaj
On Oct 13, 2005, at 11:20 PM, sparaig wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz"  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  wrote: --- In Fairfiel

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Don't know about less experienced TMSP practitioners, but there's the > > Vastu thing to consider, andof course, the claim that the Ma

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread peterklutz
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paula Youmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > I told Tom he was enlightened and he t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > I believe MMY said that fully-perfected levitation (i.e. > > > floating) > > > (or other sidhi) done on-demand at any time o

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
Irmeli: It puzzles me also, why people, when they stop identifying the 'I' with an image of one's personal self, say there is no 'I' anymore. Peter:Because no "I" or psychological sense of "me" is present. It can't be found. When people (in avidya) say "me" they are refering to a sense of sepa

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don't know about less experienced TMSP practitioners, but there's the > Vastu thing to consider, andof course, the claim that the Maharishi > Effect exists and would have an effect on individuals during group > practi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (Oh, and the techniques aren't "made-up 'Patanjali' > techniques." You might want to have a look at the > Yoga Sutras sometime.) I have. So, obviously, has Maharishi. He took one look at the verses and said to him

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Paula Youmans
Hi Akasha,     First, many here and elsewhere have so many understandings of the term, use of such a label, in contrast to direct descriptors of an experience, has little communicative value IMO. I know lol. I hear that word used so much, and I swear ….I don’t know what it means lol

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I believe MMY said that fully-perfected levitation (i.e. > > floating) > > (or other sidhi) done on-demand at any time outside of sutra > > practice > > would be a sign of fully-established Unity, not CC. > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paula Youmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > I told Tom he was enlightened and h

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "brahmachari108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Forgive please but what does your believing have to do with the > Truth of it? Interesting it is in this group how so many are so > eager to let others know what their thinking is on enlightenment. > > Menta

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "brahmachari108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paula Youmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I told Tom he was enlightened and he

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paula Youmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I told Tom he was enlightened and he told me that I > > was enlightened, so there. > > > > Haha.have you ever had someone tell

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread akasha_108
MDG: Then who is the "I" that is doing this switching, that "could switch between 'ME' and 'me'", that says "the sense or glow of 'ME' was stronger and more switchable with 'me' when I wanted it"? Akasha: Its a form of the intellect that knows itself, and the difference between "Me" and "me". Inte

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread akasha_108
Hi Paula, Pleasant is always good, if not the best. My response, though "serious" in content, had a jocular intent. There is a cetain "joke" underlying the question and answer. In a similar vein to Judy's statement "I just don't want to be overshadowed anymore". As you may know from my posts, I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread peterklutz
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paula Youmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > I told Tom he was enlightene

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread akasha_108
Peter: > > > This is one of the clearest responses articulating the > > > condition of "I" after realization. It's brilliant. > > > Wondering what happens to the "I" in enlightenment is > > > like asking what happens to the knot after it's > > > untied; what happens to the darkness when the light

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread Paula Youmans
Yikes, not at all. And if I did, asking would hardly help me (as I was stating). I ask because people speak of enlightenment as if they know what it is and have never been able to find out. So to answer your questions I want to know you couldn’t pay me to take such a la

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paula Youmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I told Tom he was enlightened and he told me that I > > was enlightened, so there. > > > > > > > > > > > > Haha.hav

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Full awareness, > > but no "I" to lay claim to be doing anything. There is > > nobody home, but all the lights are on and everything

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread akasha_108
> Peter > I told Tom he was enlightened and he told me that I > was enlightened, so there. Paula > Seriously.how does anyone ever know??? Who wants to know? Do you feel you would be enhanced with such a christening or label? If so, isn't that telling? Doesn't that in itself convey the answer?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "brahmachari108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > snip > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paula Youmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > Seriously.how does anyone ever know??? > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flaneg

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread peterklutz
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "brahmachari108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paula Youmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I told Tom he was enlighten

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread brahmachari108
snip > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paula Youmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Seriously.how does anyone ever know??? > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > I don't believe anyone ever does, in an absolute sense. Life is o

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread brahmachari108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paula Youmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > I told Tom he was enlightened and he told me that I > > was enlightened, so there. > > > > > > > > > > > > Haha.ha

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread peterklutz
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paula Youmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I told Tom he was enlightened and he told me that I > was enlightened, so there. > > > > > > Haha.have you ever had someone tell you that you had reached enlightenment? > > It's a lot like someone inform

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > And yet, once this state of inner and outer freedom is reached, life > > goes on, relative responsibilities and achievements

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And yet, once this state of inner and outer freedom is reached, life > goes on, relative responsibilities and achievements continue, and > one day we will look a long way back and realize > that 'enlightenment',

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paula Youmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I told Tom he was enlightened and he told me that I > was enlightened, so there. > > > > > > Haha.have you ever had someone tell you that you had reached enlightenment? > > It's a lot like someone info

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread Paula Youmans
To be like Shiva. He does it all the time.     Plus Ostriches are cool, and by cool I mean totally sweet! Fast as hell they are…. Swsh :-D   To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread akasha_108
Peter wrote: > I told Tom he was enlightened and he told me that I > was enlightened, so there. And then you rolled over and told Tom to quit hogging all the blanket? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Ma

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- jim_flanegin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > Full awareness, > > > but no "I" to lay claim to be doing anything. > > There

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