--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Irmeli" <irmeli.matts...@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_esq@> wrote: > > > > Your ideas in this discussion are well intentioned. But there must be a > > reason why MMY insisted on practicing these siddhi techniques. > > > > I don't doubt this. Certainly there was a reason for it. An important one is > that it brought an active component to meditation, and many people felt they > got more of their meditation practices. All of that is fine. > > The severe problem was how it got implemented. The tools and tactics used > belong to the category of fanatic fundamentalism. This implies to me that > Maharishi was in his personal structural development still at > mythical-fundamentalist level due to his cultural background.
Whose model of development are you using? > > Majority of the westerners are already beyond that level, although they may > have some pockets in their personality with fundamentalist structures or > below. This explains why so many westerners have fallen prey to eastern > fundamentalist dogmas. However as a big part of their personality is actually > already beyond those behavioral patterns and illusions that belong to the > picture, sooner or later they have become out from their regression to that > dream reality. >
