emptybill: Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert is music that stays with me. I only posted Joe MacDonald because, back in 1967, the metaphysical context of this particular song carried with it the alteration of my consciousness under LSD. And the extraordinary confrontation I felt of my individual egohood. In some sense, under the influence of psychedelic drugs I dreamed of being able to go through the reality of The Tibetan Book of the Deadand attain some kind of consummation of consciousnessfirst experienced under drugs. And Maharishi and TM did in fact produce the ultimate resolution of my LSD experienceand took "Grace" by Country Joe and the Fish to its logical spiritual limits. This was Unity Consciousness
So I was not posting this in order praise the music. I don't listen to Joe MacDonald any more. But had it not been for drugs and music like this (which contextualized the psychedelic experience) I would never have taken up TMor gone anywhere near an Indian Guru. Before drugsand the pantheistic experiences they producedI felt the alienness of the Eastand its gods of enlightenment. But when I listened to "Grace"back then in 1967I knew I would never be the same, and I sought to do justice to what has been revealed to me under LSD. Maharishi and TM went way past this experience, and provided me with the most profound realization of this ego death and oneness of everything experience I could have imagined. so, then, emptybill, I was only posting this in order to make a point: To participate in the context of experience suggested by Country Joe and the Fish's "Grace" was, for me at least, to implicitly aim one's life in the direction of the Eastand that state of awareness which would be a permanently altered state of consciousness. And this in fact is exactly what happened. LSD was the gateway drug to TMand enlightenment. For me now listening to this music I only get the sense of the beautiful hallucination of it all. Same with what happened to me via TM: my purported enlightenment. Jefferson Airplane and Tomorrow Never Knows are the same. If it weren't for the psychedelic experience and the sixties, TM and Maharishi would never have caught on. LSD and the sixties 'made' Maharishi. If not for these cultural revolutionin terms of the metaphysics of consciousnessMaharishi and TM would be hardly known at all in the world. The Beatles, for example, they catapulted Maharishi into the stratosphere of fame, and until the late seventies, he never came down. You see, then, emptybill, I was only making a point about how I came to devote my life to attaining enlightenment through Maharishi and Transcendental Meditation. It started with listening to music like this. The universality of experience where egos were asked to die into the oneness of this love. It was a lie. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" <emptybill@...> wrote: > > WTF ??? > > We are to be impressed by a songwriter praising Joe Stalin and Mao Ze > Dong? > Or is this just a play on Barry's name? > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0SIAR9TRxk > > >
