---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote :
I'm surprised they didn't kick you out of the academy for playing such a film. I guess it depends who's running the show. In the old days of the academy I probably would have been burned at the stake for bringing any sort of non-Marshy movie into the sacred grounds. But the couple who were running things when I was there were pretty cool, they knew that not everyone is suited to a life of devotion and studying the vedas, so they let us be ourselves. Not that some other visitors didn't object, some of the sponsors were outraged that money they had donated for a TV for watching "knowledge" tapes was being used for entertainment, the horror. It's like they gave money to live the spiritual life by proxy, we were intended by them to be purusha when we weren't anything of the sort. From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 5:25 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] How to tell if you are awakened... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> ...apparently. http://thespiritscience.net/2014/06/23/21-traits-of-an-awakening-soul/ http://thespiritscience.net/2014/06/23/21-traits-of-an-awakening-soul/ It's amazing to me how many of these supposed "traits of an awakening soul" can be seen as traits of something else. It's even more amazing to me that the idiot who wrote this -- and many of the people who'll read it -- can't see that. Psychiatrists would see numbers 1, 3, 5, and 7 as indicators of a person on the brink of a psychotic break, unable to cope with everyday events and attempting to turn that into a supposedly positive thing. Yes, not very invincible is it? It does kind of remind me of being in the TMO with all those fragile types in the academies. I remember the night I thought I'd educate everyone into cool modern movies by renting Pulp Fiction for the staff movie night. You've never seen a room clear so fast! No awakening for me obviously... Similarly, numbers 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21 are all signs of delusional narcissism, otherwise known as runaway ego or out-of-control self-importance. In other words, if your first reaction to reading through this was to think, "Wow! I'm really close to being awakened," you're much closer to "awakening" into a full-blown personality disorder than you thought. I liked this bit: "We naturally gravitate toward healing fields, acupuncture, reiki, Qi-Gong, yoga, massage, midwivery" I'm fairly sure that midwivery doesn't count as an alternative therapy, seems like it's a bit more useful Reiki anyway...
