FW: An Evening of the Sedona Method Weds, Mar. 16 - 7:30 PM - Fairfield Public Library
> > > > Bluscout this is concise and well said. It is my opinion and experience > > too. In Fairfield, pursuit of the wider spiritual cultivation is what has > > been much of the history of the last decade or so. > > > > Beyond transcending is what is missed with just TM. Some people look > > pretty bad in fact for lack of dealing with the fitness of the subtle > > bodies. This is a lot of what the saints have come around helping people > > with in their spiritual progress. Bit by bit people are getting it. > > > > More recently John Douglas has been extremely helpful to the inner TM > > circle on and around campus with this. His darshan and also the processes > > as techniques he teaches are chakra based and have been very effective in a > > secular way that is more generally acceptable around here. Thus far people > > are not being kicked out of the domes for having seen John Douglas or > > practicing his techniques. Also, thus far the people organizing for him > > are still in the domes. > > > > And yet the various satsangs all around town attend to this more complete > > growth in their programming. It's a very spiritual place in practice that > > way around Fairfield in fact. On the ground. > > > > -Dug in FF > > > > > > Yep it's true, on the ground here in Fairfield there is a lot of this > particular discipline of spirituality going on. Working with the subtle > systems more directly with intent. It's a lot of where folks have graduated > on to in their practice. > > Look down the list of active satsangs (the FF Directory of Active Spiritual > Practice Groups) Most all the groups are about this as an adjunct to having > come here as vanilla TM'ers. There is a reality to it and there is a lot > going on this way in practice and experience. Eventually science will catch > up with it. But the weekly cycle of things here is full of subtle system > spirituality. Saturday at the Divine Mother Church for example was a guided > meditation which was particularly about this aspect of the chakra subtle > system, life force and ensoulment . It was quite well done in presentation, > highly knowledgeable, and particularly in facilitating the experience. > > On Sundays in Fairfield the meditator community's churches, synagogue and > temples are quite busy with it in their different 'transcendental' quietism > on the one hand and esoteric inspired ways on the other. All the various > 'satsangs' are busy with it too, meditating and chanting. This goes on > through the week. It's all really quite pervasive now. A high spiritual > quotient that is quite nice in town. > > -Dug in FF > > The Directory of Active Spiritual Groups in Fairfield: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/265390 > > For instance: http://www.divinemotheronline.net/ > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Well it would mean some are reaching the "bottom" of the ocean (TC) in > > > > the bubble diagram, and others are only 'blanking out' at one of the > > > > subtle waves towards the bottom, in a laya (Non-TC). > > > > > > This is my opinion as well: Much of what is described in TM transcending > > > is only laya. Think of the sleeping elephants. They are blockages you > > > haven't dealt with. You are only partly awake. Some of these blockages > > > are the so-called knots associated with different chakras, so called > > > granthis. > > > > > > So actually only part of the system is 'awake', the other part sleeps. > > > The crucial difference is, that this partial transcending, mental laya, > > > is not the awakening of the Atma, the soul. > > > > > > Chakras, Soul, are not mentioned in the argumentation of Lawson and Judy. > > > If you mention them, they ignore it as if you have never said anything. > > > Ramana Maharshi says, that in awakening, there is a very fine nadi > > > between Sahasrara and heart, which gets activated, the socalled > > > atma-nadi. Shankara speaks of the same in his Brahma Sutra commentary. As > > > long as the Atma is not awakened, your transcendence will only be laya. > > > You could go on with laya forever, it doesn't lead to the Atma. Unless > > > you don't realize the Atma, according to Vedanta, there will not be any > > > realization. > > > > > > > > > > > > > If you think "that's OK" that seems like a pretty bad rationalization > > > > to accept. It's effectively resigning yourself to a limbo. > > > > > > > > > >
