Plus I also think that many TM'ers have a "wooden" idea of what enlightenment is. Since it is basically the experience of the transcendent along with activity that experience can vary somewhat depending on one's samskaras ( or "remains of ignorance").
Peter wrote: > Sal, I never saw her experience as being related to her brain tumor. Three > reasons. First, many people before and after her have reported similar > experiences. Two, I had identical experiences as she did and to the best of > my knowledge, I don't have a brain tumor. Three, her symptoms don't match any > sort of neurological dysfunction that would occur from a brain tumor. > Remember, I have a master's degree in science! ;-) > > --- On Mon, 8/9/10, Sal Sunshine <salsunsh...@lisco.com> wrote: > > >> From: Sal Sunshine <salsunsh...@lisco.com> >> Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Suzanne Segal >> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >> Date: Monday, August 9, 2010, 1:39 PM >> On Aug 9, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Rick >> Archer wrote: >> >> >>>> Bullshit karma but at last she gave it up, >>>> >> realized the illusion and worked to help other people. >> >>> Until she died of a brain tumor. I think part of her >>> >> problem was that she had been away from any spiritual >> teaching for several years before her awakening, so maybe >> her understanding had gotten rusty. Also, as many say, the >> actual experience turns out to be quite different from what >> we had conceptualized it to be. >> >> I think her "awakening" was little more than a major case >> of depression~~ >> starting during her pregnancy and continuing on >> afterwards, >> not to mention being in a foreign country, her dad being >> seriously >> ill, etc~~that went perpetually untreated. Not a nice >> thing for >> her "friends" to have let her deal with quite alone, it >> would seem. >> And then try and rationalize her obvious desperation by >> putting the >> above spin on it, and any number of similar ones over the >> years >> since her death. >> >> Sal >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> To subscribe, send a message to: >> fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com >> >> Or go to: >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ >> and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com >> >> >> >> > > > > > >
