I really enjoyed reading your post Curtis.Very well said. Occassionally there are some really good things written here, you just have to filter thru the nonsense sometimes. The link t oGuru Devs page was great. As for Steve Shimer, I knew him well in his later years in napa,calif. we were hanging out with shree Maa at her ashram. He was married to Kathy Unger. He became an acupuncturist and was a truly humble soul to the day he dies in Aug of 2005. We put his body into the crematorium right there at the funeral home in Fairfield, calif. he and kathy had justurned me on to deeksha a few weeks prior to his passing. The chemofrom his cancer treatment killed him. As for meI love meditating twice a day. Shree Maa once commented tha tMMY had used good dung(fertilizer) on me. My meditations are deeper and more blissful than ever. I think the deeksha is responsible for that and I have had more profound experiences since the deeksha than I had in almost all the previous 30+ years of just doing the TM and TM siddhis. just my observation. MMY got millions of us off onthe right foot. The rest is up to us. It was a good start and we had some great and memorable times and made some great friends. imho NO ONE HAS ALL THE ANSWERS. Not MMY, Amma, Shree maa, AMMABHAGAVAN, SAI BABA etc. I feel respectful to allpaths as long as they are not fundamentalists about it and try t osave me. Ramakrishna has said "As many people, so many paths." Om namah shivaya
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