--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall <thomas.pall@> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Buck <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > > Turqb, what a fabulous opportunity in life that you had, to > > > have been there at that very pivotal moment of world > > > consciousness in the 20th Century. That Merv Griffen show. > > > Would be like having witnessed the moments of Eckhart Tolle > > > on Oprah, a moment of broad change in world consciousness. > > > > > > You, should just shake off this faint-heartedness of yours > > > and be with us here in Fairfield again. It would do the > > > world some good also. Bring CurtisDB along too. I pray for you. > > > > > > Jai Adi Shankara, -Buck > > > > Usually, I just delete posts from this fellow. But I happened > > to read this one and found it amazing. It revealed much about me. > > I discovered reading this that I increasingly take life as it is. > > There's no need for drama. I'm OK without it. > > Exactly. More important, as you suggest below, there is > no need for the layers and layers of self importance that > many seem to feel the need to surround themselves with. > > > There appear to have been long stretches of time as hunter > > gatherers in which things didn't change much at all, that a > > new discovery happened once every hundred thousand years. But > > a couple thousand years ago things sped up and they are > > speeding up more and more. How on Earth can someone believe > > he is so special that he is in a millenia time, an end of > > the Old Days and the beginning of the New Age? > > From my POV it's just normal human self importance. If > you're like me, Tom, you probably made a bundle off of > the hysteria surrounding Y2K and the turn of the millen- > ium. Remember all the hysterical predictions at that time? > > Well, some of the more sensible articles did some research > and found that *there has never been a time in human his- > tory* in which large numbers of people DIDN'T believe > that they were in the "end times," or on the cusp of some > grand transformation from one state of existence to another, > "higher" or more "cosmic" one. It turns out that this belief > is just plain human nature. Everyone wants to believe that > he or she is the center of the universe, living in the > most importantest time in human history, and acting out > the most importantest events in that history. Trouble is > that it's not true now any more than it was at any point > in human history. People are just living their lives and > then dying, just as they always have, in most cases > leaving no trace that they ever existed, much less > changing the flow of life forever. > > > That wasn't so every single year over the last couple thousand > > years? Why is it that we, and we alone are so special to be > > living in a time in which life and outlooks are changing? > > Have life and outlooks not been ever changing? Seems like at > > a certain level of psychological development we need to believe > > that we're not just living in a changing world, we're living in > > the Golden Age, the Dawning of the Age of Enlightenment. > > But then some of us grow up. Others, not so much. > > > Can't we just, perhaps be living, gathering more common > > knowledge and experience, with natural ebbs and flows just > > as the latest fashion has skirts long this year, shorter > > next year? > > Exactly. And none of those fashions really means diddleysquat. > They're just passing fads and fashions. So was Maharishi's > "Age Of Enlightenment." Some people got over it. Others are > still trying to sell granny skirts as the only "true" way > of dressing. >
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_25z8AoByw Turq, Does this sum up your relationship with the Maharishi?
