Must have been something excitable, what with all the trouble they gave the black skinned Rakshasas in the Golden Age...
I think Soma and the Gods would make an excellent band name. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : Somehow the post title reminds me of "Reuben and the Jets." (Or maybe "Soma and the Gods" would make a good band name). So the vedic seers were meth heads? :-D On 04/03/2014 11:47 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Indeed, and why bother? Anyone who has read the 9th Mandala of the Rig Veda will know it's a drink made from plant extracts. Soma (Sanskrit सोम sóma), or Haoma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haoma (Avestan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avestan), from Proto-Indo-Iranian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma-, was a Vedic ritual drink[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma#cite_note-1 of importance among the early Indo-Iranians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Iranians, and the subsequent Vedic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_civilization and greater Persian cultures. It is frequently mentioned in the Rigveda http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigveda, whose Soma Mandala http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_Mandala contains 114 hymns, many praising its energizing qualities. In the Avesta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avesta, Haoma has the entire Yašt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya%C5%A1t 20 and Yasna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasna 9-11 dedicated to it. It is described as being prepared by extracting juice from the stalks of a certain plant. In both Vedic and Zoroastrian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrian tradition, the name of the drink and the plant are the same, and also personified as a divinity, the three forming a religious or mythological unity. There has been much speculation concerning what is most likely to have been the identity of the original plant. There is no solid consensus on the question, although some Western experts outside the Vedic and Avestan religious traditions now seem to favour a species of Ephedra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephedra_%28genus%29, perhaps Ephedra sinica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephedra_sinica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma Sounds speedy! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> mailto:sharelong60@... wrote : Ann, I think it would be pretty involved and costly for the TMO to perform endoscopies on hundreds of sidhas in order to have a valid study about soma in the stomach! For one thing, I've always been put under when I have mine done. On Thursday, April 3, 2014 8:49 AM, "awoelflebater@..." mailto:awoelflebater@... <awoelflebater@...> mailto:awoelflebater@... wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> mailto:mjackson74@... wrote : I just found it interesting - as I said I think, somehow this particular document had escaped my attention. I was told during the sidhi prep courses that we produce soma in the stomach and only if we have soma being produced can we have experiences of "higher" states of consciousness. That's what the governors who taught the courses told us and those would be Greg Palma, Walter Gibbons and Paul Potter (for those here who love to have sources quoted). But nothing was ever said about the gods eating it and giving us blessings as a result. It would be logical, I would think, for the Movement to have used some of their science-y minded people to test the stomachs of meditators for this supposed soma. Not that hard to do. Stick a scope down there and check it out, retrieve samples. I am sure there would have been hundreds of eager participants. Surely, this is so easy to prove or disprove - maybe not on the presence of soma-sucking Gods - but on the existence of soma at least. I had no idea such a tape existed and I wanted to hear from the TM teachers here to see if they had seen the tape and what they thought of it at the time they saw it. That's all.
