The metering of Shakti.. fair observation here about Shakti, that spiritual presence of life force.
A couple weeks ago I was at a meeting where there were about 20 new students who had just learned to meditate. One of them asking from their own new experience now how to more quickly develop this presence? Hence, the recent FFL thread here about ‘advice to new meditators’. Yes, an experience with awe to see is the awakening that can happen while initiating someone in ™ as they open up to the presence of shakti. In nature. Anybody meditating over a relatively short time should have developed in internal "Shakti meter" than enables them to discern the Shakti, especially when the Shakti is highly concentrated (such as the Domes perhaps). A Shakti was certainly noticeable when the Invincible America Assembly began, called for in 2006. Right away meditators veteran of the old meditating movement gathered to Fairfield from all over the world. Lebanon had fallen into civil war that summer. The Russians, it seemed all of Islam, the US, and Europe were looking at the outbreak of a world war in the Mideast. The call went out for meditators to come to assembly in Fairfield, Iowa. The old meditating movement assembled and there was some powerful palpable Shakti back in the area then. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <yifux...@yahoo.com> wrote : Thx, (somebody put in "Meissner-like"). That's a good thing, since the actual Meissner effect is an observable electromagnetic field. Wasn't the "ME" previously called the "Maharishi-Effect"? How ridiculous! But I suppose that Meissner-like is ok with the "like" qualifier; i.e. an unobservable Shakti effect that people can feel especially when radiated by certain Gurus (like Muktananda) through "Shaktipat". Instead of attempting to appropriate a sense of scientific validity by using scientific jargon, just call it what it is: Shakti. Anybody meditating over a relatively short time should have developed in internal "Shakti meter" than enables them to discern the Shakti, especially when the Shakti is highly concentrated (such as the Domes perhaps). Since I've never been in a Dome, I can't testify to that, but I've been in other places such as the 'Ramakrishna Vedanta Temple in Hollywood. .... On another topic, tampering with TM in an attempt to make it more "palatable" to those unfamiliar with it, may easily backfire. Since, if one eliminates the puja in a bogus attempt to say that TM has no religious roots, a major source of Shakti is eliminated. Simply learning the mantras from a book will eliminate the Shakti altogether, although a small remnant may remain in certain mantras such as "OM NAMAH SHIVAYA"., and the Shakti may be magnified by tuning into the Youtube presentations of experienced Pundits chanting that and other mantras. SHALOM
