--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > Nablusoss this is beautiful really. He was on script to the end. > > > > Did you notice that the number of proclaimed meditators on FFL is on the > > rise? Vaj more recently definitively said he was a meditator. > > -Buck > > > > And CurtisDb too admitted recently here that he had come back to meditation > too.
Actually I talked about this from when Maharishi died but you kept me on the "others" team for emotional traction. The thing is the term "come back to meditation" is a misnomer because I don't buy any of Maharishi's teaching about his technique, from the medically bogus relieving stress in the nervous system to the fanciful rebranding of dissociative disorder symptoms as higher states of consciousness. Of course I have to accept that the people in the domes are creating World Peace by leaning on their chair jacks and snoozing but that has been proven! The whole team concept gets in the way of an interesting series of questions: 1. What does TM do in the brain and how does it change the way the brain communicates with itself? This is the most interesting area for me and I believe with be the most fruitful. We have to be open minded about this. It may be good or bad and I suspect that dosage matters a lot. There IS a too much of this alteration IMO from my experience. 2. When people do enough TM to shift into the kind of experiences Maharishi describes ad higher states of consciousness, does it improve anything that matters to us or is it just another POV? Ad billed it gives deeper insight into reality. If this is the case can anything be demonstrated that might indicate this or is it just a cool buzz for the person with no added cognitive abilities that you could get from a few bong hits at a Phish concert followed by a night of shrooms with a co-ed in a peasant dress and the new Earth shoe, Sketchers. But yes I like my TM. Not to cultivate the promised benefits, but as a delightful change of gears like when I am preparing for a show after a long drive. I think some version of meditation is useful in any hominid tool kit, till we find out it creates brain lesions that makes people crazy. If that turns out to be what they find then I'll have to switch to the more traditionally popular show preparation of coke and hookers. I have a healthy respect for tradition. > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" <anitaoaks4u@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Proof that MMY was primarily concerned with spreading Vedic culture in > > > > Society in general and not interested in individual enlightenment per > > > > se, only a personal Guru could/would want to do that! > > > > > > > > (that's OK too) > > > > > > > > > Maharishi's first priority was the welfare (enlightenment) of the > > > individual, then the ushering in The Age of Enlightenment, Utopia. The > > > one could not happen without the other. > > > "Spreading Vedic culture" was a bi-product, a leasurly activity when he > > > felt the AoE was on safe grounds. > > > > > >
