--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ultrarishi writes:(Snipped) > Codependents and Adult Children of Alcoholics, and the like, are very > common on the elightenment circuit and embrace consciousness raising > practices wholeheartedly. However, unlike more healthy people, > meditation and the like, become short cuts to dealing with are own > pain and issues. We know we want to evolve, but we don't know who we > are. Because of the abuse we've experience in growing up we are in > denial about the desires and emotions we think we want to transcend. > > Tom T: > Those in the movement get really good at step 11. Sought through > prayer and meditation to etc, > The basic pproblem is that ultimately you have to do all 12 steps. You > can not transcend away all that stuff we have inside. If you don't do > it then it gets done. > Step 1 I am not in control of you fill in the word blank. If you tilt > that about 90 degrees you end up with I am not the doer. One can > suddenly discover they are not the doer and they never had the I they > thought they did. Very disconcerting to stumble on to that baby. > Bottom line, own your stuff take it back into the wholeness you > already are and discover joy and freedom. Tom T
Some researchers were able to look into one of the big evangelical megachurches, I think in CA., with very fundamentalist views - really into the rapture and the apocalypse. They expected to find the members to be less educated and poorer, but found them to be fairly avg concerning most demographics. The one thing that stood out was close to 75% were raised in a home with at least 1 alcoholic parent or parental figure. My informal research comes up with a similar figure for hard core tmers - not your avg meditator but people who really got into the movt in a fundamentalist kind of way. Lots of possible reasons - the need to view MMY as perfect and trust him explicitly, using him as the ideal parental figure they didn't have as a child. Also the tendency to want to view life in black and white terms. The need for a closely knit family-like group that eventually leads to a culty-like group. Other reasons I'm sure. Unfortunately the inner tmo discouraged any kind of emotional healing for years and it's now clear that meditating alone doesn't heal these type of deep emotional wounds. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
