Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-24 Thread Peter
I think the key here is simple authenticity regardless if the experience is good or bad, pleasant or unpleasant. Most spiritual movements like the TMO generate an atmosphere of subtle (and at times not so subtle) moodmaking that denies one's simple experience if it is not in accord with the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-24 Thread Peter
--- authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The Internet, whatever else it may be, is NOT a suitable forum for satsang, or for any style of teaching that requires the student to perceive the overall vibe

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-24 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/24/06 12:29 AM, new_morning_blank_slate at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there already a silent presumption that Tolle is realized -- and thus a parallel presumption that his words are valid and/or relevant? He says he is, and speaks as though he is. Do you find the words inspiring

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-24 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/24/06 10:15 AM, new_morning_blank_slate at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your comments. My questions are not leading ones. I don't have a goal I am trying to lead readers to. I could answer many of the questions from different angles with different answers. But I find such

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-24 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/24/06 10:28 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not digging in the dirt is the rationale used by many sidhas here when they move into a S-ved home as a way of solving their marital communication

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-24 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/24/06 11:19 AM, shirleybrahman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FFLife is a way to see what's what. It's flavor has changed and since LB and DOug Hamilton, Phil Goldberg and a few others have stopped posting it's a lot less interesting, yet I find there is still something to be gained from

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-24 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/24/06 1:42 PM, new_morning_blank_slate at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several friends who Awakened recently, and they say that soon thereafter, the shit hit the fan. They began feeling guilt and other

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-24 Thread Vaj
On May 24, 2006, at 2:42 PM, new_morning_blank_slate wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several friends who Awakened recently, and they say that soon thereafter, the shit hit the fan. They began feeling guilt and other emotions

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-24 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/24/06 2:02 PM, new_morning_blank_slate at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several friends who Awakened recently, and they say that soon thereafter, the shit hit the fan. They began feeling guilt and other

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-24 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/24/06 2:11 PM, jim_flanegin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I have several friends who Awakened recently, and they say that soon thereafter, the shit hit the fan. They began feeling guilt and other

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-24 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/24/06 3:04 PM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could it be that the post-wakening period you're talking about is similar? Some people have nothing but a good time with it, and others have some issues to work through. But it depends on what they carried with them into the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-24 Thread Vaj
On May 24, 2006, at 4:21 PM, new_morning_blank_slate wrote: My question stems from some/many here appear to reject some /many attributes that MMY associates with CC. Yeah I noticed that to. However there is a tendency to use more convenient parts of those definitions. In almost all cases

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-24 Thread Vaj
On May 24, 2006, at 5:28 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 5/24/06 1:42 PM, new_morning_blank_slate at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer fairfieldlife@ wrote: I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-24 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/24/06 4:28 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 5/24/06 1:42 PM, new_morning_blank_slate at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer fairfieldlife@ wrote: I have

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-24 Thread Vaj
On May 24, 2006, at 6:08 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-23 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/23/06 8:43 AM, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TorquiseB writes: snipped One could, if one swung that way, claim that beliefs are addictions. However, given that claim, to claim that 98% of the US population is 'addicted' means, statistically, that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-23 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/23/06 9:09 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Life 'downloads' all sorts of stuff in our direction. But we don't have to open a port to it. And if we already have, at some point in our lives, all we have to do is open another port and let it flow right out again, without a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-23 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/23/06 10:19 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I was listening to Eckhart Tolle yesterday (Silence Speaks) and he was saying that any thought is a viewpoint, and how liberating it is to realize

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-23 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/23/06 10:47 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 5/23/06 10:19 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer fairfieldlife@ wrote: snip I was

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-23 Thread Vaj
On May 23, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Rick Archer wrote: I was listening to Eckhart Tolle yesterday (Silence Speaks) and he was saying that any thought is a viewpoint, and how liberating it is to realize that. It's like a small segment of a wide spectrum. Other segments, even contradictory

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-23 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/23/06 11:20 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 23, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Rick Archer wrote: I was listening to Eckhart Tolle yesterday (Silence Speaks) and he was saying that any thought is a viewpoint, and how liberating it is to realize that. It's like a small segment of a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-23 Thread Vaj
On May 23, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Rick Archer wrote: on 5/23/06 11:20 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 23, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Rick Archer wrote: I was listening to Eckhart Tolle yesterday (Silence Speaks) and he was saying that any thought is a viewpoint, and how liberating

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-23 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/23/06 2:11 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's interesting because essentially what it points out, from an experiential point of view, is that Tolle has not reached self- liberation of thought. In others words, he ain't very realized. Seems to me you're too quick to judge

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-23 Thread Peter
--- Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 5/23/06 2:11 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's interesting because essentially what it points out, from an experiential point of view, is that Tolle has not reached self- liberation of thought. In others words, he ain't very

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-23 Thread Vaj
On May 23, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Rick Archer wrote: on 5/23/06 2:11 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's interesting because essentially what it points out, from an experiential point of view, is that Tolle has not reached self- liberation of thought. In others words, he ain't very