[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-06 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Nelson wrote: --- Gillam wrote: The impulse to speak was vague, amporphous, but the sentences worked. I find that phenomenon interesting. Maybe it's related to all this. +++ Maybe similar to hearing your voice speaking to someone without your direct attention on it and finding

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-06 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Nelson wrote: --- Gillam wrote: The impulse to speak was vague, amporphous, but the sentences worked. I find that phenomenon interesting. Maybe it's related to all this. +++ Maybe similar to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-06 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, it's not uncommon for writers to have the experience of what they write coming *through* them from somewhere else, almost as if they were taking dictation. I'm not a writer, but I've had that experience a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-06 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Nelson wrote: --- Gillam wrote: The impulse to speak was vague, amporphous, but the sentences worked. I find that phenomenon interesting. Maybe it's related to all this. +++ Maybe similar to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-06 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam jpgillam@ wrote: --- Nelson wrote: --- Gillam wrote: The impulse to speak was vague, amporphous, but the sentences worked. I find that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-06 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: FWIW, it's not uncommon for writers to have the experience of what they write coming *through* them from somewhere else, almost as if they were

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-06 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Where the person who experiences this flow chooses to believe it flows *FROM* is another question, one that is all wrapped up in personal beliefs

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-06 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Where the person who experiences this flow chooses to believe it flows *FROM*

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-06 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Where

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-06 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-06 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Nelson wrote: If I am sitting with a group of vegetarians enjoying my cheeseburgher and thinking how good it is, I would doubt that thought would be anyone elses. Oh, come on -- you know they want it! ; - ) Good point to make, though, in this context: Even though consciousness may be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-06 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Nelson wrote: If I am sitting with a group of vegetarians enjoying my cheeseburgher and thinking how good it is, I would doubt that thought would be anyone elses. Oh, come on -- you know they want it!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was:

2006-02-06 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Judy writes:snipped With one of my clients, every once in a while as I'm editing his work, I'll come upon a really rough patch and find myself effortlessly rewriting it, even adding stuff that should have been there but isn't. He's always thrilled when I do that. I kid him by telling him that for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-06 Thread TurquoiseB
A guy once told me, in the process of training me to teach meditation, If you encounter a person in your talks who consistently wants to start an argument with you, *don't* argue with them. That's what they *want*. It's part of the mechanism they have developed for staying miserable.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-06 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam jpgillam@ wrote: --- Nelson wrote: --- Gillam wrote: The impulse to speak was vague, amporphous, but the sentences worked. I find that phenomenon

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-06 Thread anonyff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I take ownership of my speech, but could that ownership be just as much of a delusion as the individual ego in ignorance? Those thoughts could be in the thought sphere, available for pickup by me or anyone.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-06 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonyff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: I take ownership of my speech, but could that ownership be just as much of a delusion as the individual ego in ignorance? Those thoughts could be in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-05 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- sparaig wrote: --- Rick Archer wrote: I've heard both Maharishi and local enlightened friends say that they're often surprised by the things they find themselves doing. ... Another friend said, I was going to the post office but found myself at the coffee shop, implying

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-05 Thread Vaj
On Feb 5, 2006, at 12:13 PM, Patrick Gillam wrote:What do people think of this? Does it jibe with your experience? If so, it speaks to the influence of collective consciousness on the individual. I would add that they are simply non-local--that is they aren't exclusive to you. Therefore when a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment,

2006-02-05 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Patrick Gillam wrote: What do people think of this? Does it jibe with your experience? If so, it speaks to the influence of collective consciousness on the individual. Vaj writes: I would add that they are simply non-local--that is they aren't exclusive to you. Therefore when a thought

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-05 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip There's a school of thought that individuals pick up thoughts the way radios pick up signals. Maybe we find ourselves surprised at thoughts and actions because they're not really ours. I got to thinking

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-05 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam jpgillam@ wrote: snip There's a school of thought that individuals pick up thoughts the way radios pick up signals. Maybe we find ourselves surprised at

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-05 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Nelson wrote: --- authfriend wrote: I sometimes find that I seem to know things I have no normal basis for knowing. ... It's only when I stop and ask myself, How do I know this? that I realize there's a discrepancy, that it seems to have bypassed the usual routes by which I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was: Money Smuggling

2006-02-05 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Nelson wrote: --- authfriend wrote: I sometimes find that I seem to know things I have no normal basis for knowing. ... It's only when I stop and ask myself, How do I know this? that I realize