--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" <willytex@> wrote: > > > > "Master Fwap told me that most people who have been > > enlightened in their previous incarnations would > > normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment > > -if they lived at sea level-at around the age of > > twenty-nine, when their astrological Saturn return took > > place.
At age 29, when Saturn transited my natal Saturn, I was living on the beach. > He said that living in or near sacred mountains, > > because of their beneficial auric influences, often > > made past-life returns happen even faster." When I was 59 and Saturn passed my natal saturn, I was living in the sacred mountains. Apparently I did not meet the first criteria. (Both rather intense periods -- and clear demarcations in my life -- one reason I don't reject jyotish outright as many of my esteemed colleagues here -- and elsewhere -- appear to have done.) > > > > Read more: > > > > 'Surfing the Himalayas' > > By Frederick Lenz > > St. Martin's Griffin, 1996 > > http://tinyurl.com/334g2eg > > Worked that way for me, dude. I had my first > enlightenment experiences in this lifetime > between the ages of 27 and 30. Didn't you? > > :-), but it's actually true. > > For your information, Willy, I haven't bothered > to read this book since shortly after it came > out. Thanks for the reminder; I should go back > and read the two pop Rama books again to see how > they "read" to me now, many years later. > > The first one ("Surfing The Himalayas") did > not exactly knock my socks off. I'd read his > earlier books, in which (IMO) both his writing > and his state of consciousness were of a higher > order. As for the second of the pop Lenz books > ("Snowboarding To Nirvana") I am not completely > convinced he even wrote it. > > Really. I was starting to fade out of the Rama > trip while he was still writing it, and had left > before he finished, but "word on the street" > was that he assigned many (if not all) of the > chapters in the book to selected students, > ostensibly as a "writing exercise." According > to these rumors, he gave them the plot of the > chapter, then told them to write it in the > style of one of the then-famous New Age authors. > > I never knew the truth of these rumors, and had > almost forgotten them until the book finally > came out, and I read it. I was so disappointed > with it that I can now believe the rumors, and > suspect that he may have in fact published their > stories under his name. I know for sure that the > story of the Danish girl Nadia whom he (as the > author) supposedly meets in a youth hostel and > has an affair with is lifted *in its entirety* > from an experience had by one of his students. > The *student* was actually in Tibet and did have > an affair with a Danish girl, and told Rama about > it. Imagine his surprise when it wound up in the > pages of "Snowboarding To Nirvana," as if it had > happened to Lenz himself. > > As far as I know, the dude never even *went* to > Tibet, in his entire life. The period of time > in which he was supposedly there according to > "Surfing The Himalayas," he was actually "doing > soft time" in a California juvenile detention > center for selling pot. Go figure. >
