--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steven klayman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:06:32 -0000 > From: "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Digest Number 4658 > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steven klayman > <thedoc108@> > wrote: > <snip> > > The fact is many people in the movement are > receiving > > deeksha because it gives direct experience of the > > Divine, is not a path or a spiritual technique, has > no > > teachings, no scriptures to read nor is obedience or > > loyalty to any gurus needed. It is just pure > > experience. > > When and how does this experience occur, and what is > it > like? (I know, "pure experience" isn't "like" > anything, > but...) If it's life-changing, in what sense is it > life-changing? > > > Deeksha is a phenomenon, not a practice. It is the > Divine Grace bestowed on the recipients crown chakra > thru the hands via someone who has been initiated into > the process of giving deeksha. it is a 21 day process. > If it had been earned thru years of tapasya you might > call it a siddhi but since it is a power given > technically it is not, however anyone who goes thru > the initiation can give it at will. > I was turned on to it by the late Steven Shimer and > his wife KAthy Unger. They told me the y had made more > spiritual progress in the past 3 weeks than they had > in the last 10 years. > Now i understand what they were saying. (Taste the > strawberry, dont talk about it). The Divine > Intelligence is supremely intelligent so each person > starts to wake up in their own way based on their own > physiology, their own karmas etc. The Divine > Intelligence starts repairing what you need repaired > so it starts to quiet down the parietal lobes and open > up the frontal lobes. It is a bloodless brain surgery. > The chatter of the mind gets less, quietness settles > in (meditation get so much deeper) and life gets more > blissful. That is my experience. > Giving it is a trip. My own experience of the divine > has deepened, and my connection with the Divine has > become very personal. > Life has become very much fun again. It had become > rather boring. > Namaste > steve
Not to complain but to explain from another perspective, Steve's description above is how this phenomenon is viewed by and presented by one particular group. But it's a very common phenomenon in the spiritual smorgas- borg, referred to by other names such as empowerment, transmission, shakipat, or whatever. IMO, the name doesn't matter, and the particular method of trans- mission doesn't matter. As Steve says, it's about experience. And the bottom line is that teachers in many other traditions have mastered this ability to *give* the experience of higher states of consciousness. For those who are more interested in experiencing enlightenment than in reading about it or in hearing somebody else talk about it, these techniques of transmission may have a value. 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/
