i was on a residence course with john black in california circa early 90's when
one morning i arrived fifteen minutes late for the meeting. black exonerated me
for my lack of punctuality and questioned my deserve-ability as a student of
tm. my excuse for being late was being in a dream that morning that involved a
wonderful winged snake flying up my spine to the center of the universe with my
awareness in it. black screamed at me and said we never discuss the details of
un-stressing in the tm movement in a group of people. i told him the dream
wasn't stressful, i liked the dream. to my credit patanjali in yoga sutras
states that dream analysis is a technique for enlightenment. sorry i don't have
the reference but it's easy to find yourself online. anyway john black was a
major douche bag.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk" <shempmcg...@...> wrote:
>
> I've never had that experience myself. But Muktananda says that seeing a
> snake during meditation is very auspicious.
>
> I have had, on two occasions, the classical "snake slithering along the spine
> experience." It literally felt as if a snake was inside my body. Had I not
> had at least some understanding of kundalini and its relation to snakes and
> all that, I can see how I could have had really big problems dealing with it.
> Instead, I rather enjoyed the experience. But I can see how people can
> really freak out without some intellectual understanding when such
> experiences happen.
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon <mdixon.6569@> wrote:
> >
> > anybody ever see a cobra in meditation? A couple of years ago, while I was
> > meditating, I suddenly saw a cobra slither out from under my arm chair,
> > between my feet. It skeerd the crap out of me and I raised my feet off the
> > floor and crossed them in the chair! On my six month course, another fellow
> > I knew, used to have a cobra appear in most meditations and sway back n
> > forth in front of him.>
> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Fri, February 12, 2010 9:30:23 AM
> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Cobra paying homage to Lord Shiva
> >
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> > Dinamalar- Miracle on January 15, 2010 -
> > >>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Solar Eclipse day[Translation]
> > >>Â
> > >>Â
> > >>Â News in Dinakaran - Dated: January 16, 2010
> > >>Â
> > >>Â Kumbakonam: People here got excited seeing a Cobra
> > >>Â picking Vilva leaves and doing Archana / pooja for
> > >>Â Siva Linga.
> > >>Â
> > >>There is a famous Temple for Sri Viswanatha at
> > >>Â Thepperumanallur near Kumbakonam.
> > >>Â
> > >>Here, yesterday the priest opened the sanctum doors
> > >>Â at about 10:30 AM and went to fetch water.
> > >>Â
> > >>At that time he noticed a Cobra descending from the
> > >>Â Temple Vilva (Bilva) tree carrying a Vilva leaf in its mouth.
> > >>Â
> > >>It entered the Sanctum of Sivalinga, went around the
> > >>Â Vigraha and dropped the leaf on top of the Linga.
> > >>Â
> > >>Then they saw the same being repeated one more time
> > >>Â carrying a Vilva leaf and putting it on the Siva Linga.
> > >>Â
> > >>The Priest explained "It is doing the archana during
> > >>Â the Solar Eclipse time to wash off its sins".
> > >>Â
> > >>Â The Naga Serpent has been regularly visiting the Siva
> > >>Â Idol for the last three SOLAR ECLIPSES.
> > >>Â
> > >>The priest and some locals had arranged for a
> > >>Â photographer a few months back during Sooriya Grahanam.
> > >>Â
> > >>In fact, they had kept milk offering also for the Naga.
> > >>Â But the snake did not appear on the day.
> > >>Â
> > >>On this particular  SOLAR ECLISE Grahanam day
> > >>Â when the priest opened the Sanctum Sanctorum he saw
> > >>Â the snake on the top of the Siva Linga idol.
> > >>Â
> > >>He immediately called Mr. Thenappan the photographer
> > >>Â who lives in Thrunagesvaram a kilo meter from this village.
> > >>Â
> > >>Meantime a dozen or more people including my house
> > >>Â caretaker had assembled to witness this miracle.
> > >>Â
> > >>In front of their eyes the Naga went back to the
> > >>Â "Vilwa tree" plucked the leaves and came back all the way
> > >>Â to drop it on the Siva Linga.
> > >>Â
> > >>All these have been photographed by Mr. Thenappan
> > >>Â (photos received directly from the photographer annexed).
> > >>Â
> > >>Â It may be pertinent to note that many of the residents
> > >> of this  VILLAGE (Agaraharm) are named Nagarajan
> > >>Â or Nagalingam for a few generations .
> > >>Â News seen in Tamil News papers âDinamalar.
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