--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > In our Philosophy of Science core course at MIU in 1977, David > > > > Clay deconstructed the stress theory and clarified its > > > > shortcomings. It was a clarifying if understated moments in my > > > > Maharishi education. > > > > > > I'd be interested to hear whatever you remember of > > > what he said. > > > > The gist of it was, as I recall, Judy (and we've already > > established the reliability of my memory in another > > thread), the stress theory doesn't explain enough of > > the phenomena we observe as a result of people > > practicing TM. Here I'm at a loss for an example, > > though, so please permit me to continue with generalities. > > > > Simply removing stress doesn't explain all the creative > > or growth characteristics of the practice of TM. Those > > characteristics suggest a larger theory at work which > > we may call the consciousness theory. It would seem > > consciousness is a field of all possibilities which, when > > tapped, makes manifest those possibilities daily life. > > > > Sound familiar now? > > > > The stress theory deals with removing something > > physical; the consciousness theory deals wtih adding > > something spiritual. > > Sure, but MMY is very insistent that you can't > really separate the two. Could it be stress, > physical (neurological) impurities, that get in > the way of tapping the field of all possibilities? > > For that matter, is it even *possible* to "add" > anything spiritual, if we are That to begin with? > Excellent question; I would have to say No... more a case of witnessing and unraveling the bodymind's samskaras/habit-patterns, which in being fixed and "grooved" tend to obscure our appreciation of THAT, or THAT's appreciation of THATself through us... :-)
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