--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > Good post, Buck. I had similar thoughts about this paper, > > but you expressed them better than I could have. > > > > The author does seem to realize that the TMO doesn't > > quite fit the model he describes, especially regarding > > the TM-Sidhis. I think you nailed the problem: he > > considers the program's goals "supernatural," which > > is appropriate from his perspective, but as far as he's > > concerned that means wholly imaginary. > > And I would agree with that. We were quite surprised when the whole siddhi > thing came up, with constant 'news' from various courses about the latest > attainments. I didn't think that supernatural feats was really I was > aspiring, but we were told, in golden brochures, that enlighetnment is not > complete without attainment of the siddhis. I still remember the first > brochure I saw, it was called 'enlightenment and the siddhis' (still written > with two dd), and actually full of the most phantastic and inspiring > experience reports.
I don't think that MMY ever denied the siddhis. At the start, he said they were a distraction but later changed his tune. HOwever, he still insisted that they were a relative phenomenon compared to pure consciousness even though their practice would help stabilize pure consciousness in activity. Lawson
