--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero" <yifux...@...> wrote: > > ---Naturally, there will be a lot of selectivity in regard to > the quotes; since Christianity looked at as a whole is populated > by far more Orthodox-dualistic "Saints" than Mystics such as > Meister Eckhart. > But now the Saint is Aaron Eckhart and I'm wondering if I should > see the movie with him and Jennifer Anniston.
You might not be able to. It turns out that the script was very possibly stolen from the two original writers, and they are filing suit to prevent the release of the movie. Word on the street is that they can prove that all that the studio did was rework their original script slightly and credit it to different writers, and that they can prove this. > The MUM people would of course have people believe that any > dualistic talk among the Christian Saints would amount only > to a stepping-stone on the road to pure Impersonalism. But > obviously, the whole point of Orthodox Christianity is the > Person of Jesus, redemption via Sacrifice; a concept which > harkens back long before Jesus with the Judaic practice of > animal sacrifice, including goats and lambs. (thus, the > saying ...."Lamb of Christ"...who taketh away the sins of > the world",...etc). I see this whole compulsion of Maharishi's to "reinterpret" the world's religions and "recast" them in terms of TM as an extension of Hinduism and its original co-opting of the Buddha. Same thing exactly...if you can find some way to claim that the original competing tradition was "really" teaching the same thing that the TMO teaches, but in a "lesser," less-fully-understood way, you simultaneously 1) put that other tradition down, and 2) co-opt it to some extent so that your own students won't be tempted to check it out and thus "stray from the highest path." And, in so doing, take their money somewhere else (or keep it, because many of these other traditions teach for free). As I said about Edg's comment on "threenesses" the other day, I tend to see this trend as "scripture fulfillment fantasies," the projection of one's own scriptures or world view onto another tradition's. In his case, he desired to make the square peg of the three gunas fit into the mention of a triad of forces in physics. In this case, there is a *stated* desire to "interpret" all of these saints' exper- iences *in terms of* Maharishi's teachings and TM. And, as I said then, that strikes me as a fun thing to do if one is doing it just *for* fun, and knows that at best it's creative-but-entertaining bullshit. When done as if it were serious -- or worse, true or Truth -- not so much. If anyone attends, I'd love to hear some of the things taught in such a class. > In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > MUM Review: > > > > Seminar Offered on Experiences of Saints > > > > A unique six-session seminar, titled "In Their Own Words: Experiences of > > the > > Saints of Christianity, Judaism and Islam," is currently being offered > > to > > the community. > > > > Taught by Evan Finkelstein, the seminar is highlighting the divine > > experiences of great saints from these three traditions in the light of > > Maharishi's teachings on higher states of consciousness. > > > > The sessions are being held on six consecutive Wednesday evenings, > > starting > > on September 9. All sessions begin at 8:00 p.m., in Dalby Hall of the > > Argiro > > Student Center. Those who missed the first session may still enroll in > > the > > seminar. > > > > The cost for six sessions is $60 with a 10% discount for Invincible > > America > > Course Participants; the fee for full-time students, faculty, and staff > > is > > $10. > > > > Quotes from Maharishi and many writings of Christian, Jewish and Muslim > > saints are being discussed and explored; there will also be a PowerPoint > > presentation and time for comments and questions. > > > > An example of the quotations is this by Abd Al-Karim Jili: "It is the > > Holy > > Spirit which witnesses to man's innate perfection, the Spirit is man's > > real > > nature and within him is the secret shrine of the Divine" > > >
