--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_reply@> wrote: > My homework is to > > support whatever it takes to reach atonement with that Cosmic Self. > > > > A Greatness views life through us all. The bible, and every other > > scripture I've ever read, speaks about these things, so I'll end with > > a quote from the sermon on the mount. It's all about letting go and > > letting God. Ain't nuttin' like what gets done when Infinite Sleeves > > get rolled up. Stand back, let a Professional do the job. > > > Nicely put. I remember years and years ago Maharishi saying that the > baseline state of conciousness during the Age of Enlightenment would > be Cosmic Consciousness, or atonement/attunement with the Cosmic Self. > > Such a thing seemed so mystical and fantastical and utterly > unimaginable at the time. Now its kind of a, "well, no duh":-) > > The world is speeding by faster than any of can comprehend, and CC > seems to be the bare minimum for us in order to get through modern > life with any hope of a frictionless flow. It is not really spiritual > practice as separate from life anymore, it is just survival; The > Basics. :-) > Which reminds me- What *IS* the "Age of Enlightenment"? I began thinking about it in terms of the ripened Industrial Age, and how that one started out with steam engines in the mid-19th century, flourished with electricity and the internal combustion engine at the dawn of the last century, and pretty much peaked with the moon landing.
Perhaps we are at a nascent stage with the A of E, similar to the period when automobiles came on the scene, some electric, some steam, some gasoline, some deisel. With all the flavors of teaching now, and many of the "symptoms" of enlightenment more and more commonplace in our world, perhaps we are truly there, somewhere between the dawn and the full sunshine of what a wise old Indian man has been talking about for the last 30 years. Perhaps this is the way all Ages begin- confused, messy, a lot of the old stuff still hanging around, and yet strong bright beams of change shining through it all, not yet recognized as the coming thing by the mass media, but treated as a we can't get enough of this weirdness story, yoga always makes the news. It is common now to hear in the West words associated with spirituality, no matter how superficial their use; mantra, karma, meditation, etc. And to find objects previously associated with cloistered spirituality- I recently used the example of the Buddha t-shirts and stauary at Target as an example. So this is it- the Age of Enlightenment, when enlightenment and its symptoms are becoming common and everyday. Not really being able to see how specifically the world will transform as this becomes fully accepted into everyone's awareness, but it ain't goin' away anytime soon either. :-)
