Nice Tart, very well said.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain <no_reply@...> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut <no_reply@> wrote:
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> > People here are talking with other like minded people about their formative
> > years. Along with the techniques we did, also belief-systems were
> > transmitted. If you finish with a technique, you'll still have beliefs and
> > concepts sitting in your system. Better deal with it.
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> Thats a good way of framing it, "formative years". People that started their
> TM years in their 30's or 40's moved on without much deeply embedded world
> views and inner scar tissue. For those of us who started in our teens or
> early 20's, during the "access" days, were totally bought into all/most of
> the vision, the framework, the methods, style, and world view. And on another
> level, it was our formative social and sexual years. Relations bent and
> conformed to the warps in time/space of the movement. On a third level,
> career plans -- again during the formative period when people are figuring
> out what they want to do, testing out life in the workplace and making a go
> of it, many of us got quite warped about the day to day realities of
> supporting self and family with vague notions of support of nature, and the
> momentum of world plans which would push us like low lying lava in a volcano
> to unimaginable heights.
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> When the inevitable meeting up with reality occurred (you can live with
> reality or reality will come to live with you) and we left the sacred holy
> "movement" we rebuilt lives on top of the ruble. But the ruble remained, the
> deep 5 story deep foundations deep within our spirit were still there, even
> though the outer building was now quite different and distinctly
> non-movement. Yet those deep foundations continued to influence us, in many
> deep, often hidden ways. 20 years later, I still held many unexamined,
> unsupported premises of how the universe worked. I remember telling a friend
> who was open minded about many things about yugas and past golden ages
> 100,000 if not millions of years ago -- as if it were fact -- just not
> uncovered yet. With a few innocent questions, the whole pufffed up circus
> tent was on the ground, at my knees, ruffling in the wind.
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> It takes time to go back and re-examine that entire universe of world views,
> mores, principals, ethics, and standards for evaluating truth claims. I have
> found FFL invaluable in doing that work, slowly removing the dead decay and
> rebuilding those deep foundations set many years ago in my teens and early
> 20's. So for those who were not there in their youth in the 60's and 70's or
> who have still not dealt with those old deep movement foundations, it may
> indeed seem strange that people are discussing shit that happened 30-40 years
> ago. For those who are rebuilding, or reconfirming the rebuild of those deep,
> formative years foundations, its as natural and common sense as breathing.
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