--- sparaig wrote: > > --- Rick Archer wrote: > > > > I've heard both Maharishi and local enlightened > > friends say that they're often surprised by the > > things they find themselves doing. ... > > Another friend said, "I was going to the post > office but found myself at the coffee shop," implying > > that something other than an > > individuality was in the driver's seat. > > That's true regardless of enlightenment or not. We are creatures of > habit and unexplained behavior. Surely you've noticed this in > yourself? And MMY's assumptiona bout someone needing to hear what he > had to say sounds like his OWN interpretation of his own unexplained > behavior. THat's not to say he wasn't correct, only that MMY had no > more clue about the explaination for the unexplained than anyone else > did.
There's a school of thought that individuals pick up thoughts the way radios pick up signals. Maybe we find ourselves surprised at thoughts and actions because they're not really "ours." I got to thinking about this upon reading the following at the Wikipedia page for Rudolf Steiner: "In his epistemological works, he advocated the Goethean view that thinking itself is a perceptive instrument for ideas, just as the eye is a perceptive instrument for light." What do people think of this? Does it jibe with your experience? If so, it speaks to the influence of collective consciousness on the individual. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
