that's cause you aren't taking amrit, having yagyas done and practicing TMSP as
many hours as possible in a group up in Skelmersdale
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On Sun, 2/16/14, salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Drinking Vedic Coffee and Discerning 'Cult' from
'Sect'
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, February 16, 2014, 1:49 PM
Yes, I used to get a lot of things like that. A
text book progression of enlightened states as espoused by
Marshy. Really amazingly nice and it convinced me I was
going to get there but it all stopped, maybe it will start
up again but I doubt it and it doesn't even interest me
any more, it's like the acid trips I used to do, a great
way to spend a day but is it a good long term
proposition?
At work once I became the unwitting centre of
attention when I slipped into "unity" on a busy
friday afternoon when we were normally running around trying
to wrap everything up. Everyone else just pulled up a chair
and sat round my desk, it was amazing how different yet the
same I was, intensely relaxed but wide awake and flowing all
things good from some centre that wasn't even me but was
everything that existed and it was all lush, powerful and
vivid. Happy days, but it wore off a few hours later and
that was that. What it
all means I cannot say, my guess is nothing, just a phase,
maybe all that bending my mind out of shape suddenly
reflexively threw it into a euphoric state. But whatever, it
doesn't work any more...
--In
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <steve.sundur@...>
wrote:
Wow, I hope you don't me
saying this, but this is the nicest post we've had in
about six months. And it sounds like more than
witnessing.I say that because as I've always understood it,
the transcendental field is without attributes. It is
when we experience it that it becomes blissful. But
otherwise, it is just a silent
witness.Whatever
you were experiencing was creeping into waking
state.
---In
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
<no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Yes,
like being wrapped in infinite cotton wool, all rosy and
warm. During some of those experiences I'd spend days
seeing the world like it's made of christmas tree lights
with that angel hair round them. Then it got even better and
I saw where the light came from and I knew everything
without being able to answer any questions and then it
stopped.
What
the point of it was, other than to make me feel my ascetic
life was paying off, is beyond me. But if it had lasted any
longer I probably would have started a cult myself.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
<steve.sundur@...> wrote:
(-: Hey, neat about
that witnessing experience. I experienced it once, and
didn't realize it till after the fact. But was the
experience "blissful" for you?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
<no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Potayto,
potahto.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
<dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote:
No,
most of what you are offering as definition technically is
about sects. Cults form around charismatic persons.
Sects form out
of specialness, exception or differentiation as in different
denominations of
protestantism or catholicism or denominations or types of
meditation.
Those are sects. Sects are around fragmentation and cults
are
around persons as charismatics. For instance, If
someone really
'charismatic', like earlier defined by Weber, like a
Robin were to show up in Fairfield, Iowa and
take off a bunch of meditators as his followers by force and
power of
personality then we're talking cult, as a sect. That is
different
than the different sects of people out teaching meditations
and some
others out there teaching other things they've
learned.-Buck in the Dome
Salyavin808
writes: You don't need any leader to be a cult. All you
need is a belief system that sets you apart from the
norm.
