Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-26 Thread Mark Landau
I hear ya. I sometimes have the same ailment. But let's not let counter-reaction to our ailments push us from dealing with could possibly be simple veracity...:-) On Oct 25, 2011, at 9:42 PM, seventhray1 wrote: I certainly agree. But I have a condition (as in ailment). I have to be

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-25 Thread Mark Landau
Yes, well thank you for your ancient wisdom. I was one with the creation in '65 and pretty much through '69, when a variety of things seemed to curtail it, and then through a lot of the '70s, etc., and so on through the present. A good chunk of my life has been lived in that state. But now,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-25 Thread Mark Landau
Why thank you, Steve. I keep thinking I should read Shakespeare. And yes, the money thing can get you down. Also my physical well being isn't that great. There's a good deal of pain in this ole body. But I do believe those things needn't *necessarily* rule one, though they probably are

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-25 Thread maskedzebra
Dear Mark, My own psychedelic experiences took me into Maharishi's universe. Having rejected Maharishi's universe (and therefore the ontological fit between my experiences under TM and reality) I am forced to reject the validity [the extent to which these pantheistic experiences correspond to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-25 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau m@... wrote: the world which I somehow still seem to be inextricably linked to (one, on some experiential level, with the collective). I think many of us feel this way. Of course you can open yourself to some subtle ridicule here, but I have

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-25 Thread Mark Landau
Yes, I agree, and also feel that many are linked but have not fully consciously perceived or accepted it. But, simultaneously, many seem to have been but have now been liberated from that connection and are quite glad of it, feeling much lighter, freer, clearer, etc., that we no longer need to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-25 Thread Mark Landau
Thank you, Robin, I appreciate this. Your vision of the cosmos, I must say, is significantly divergent from mine, but the thing about that article that most interested me in conjunction with what you have written that I have read here was more along the lines of equating the Vedic Gods with

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-25 Thread seventhray1
Yea, that's all interesting. I think I am in the second camp that you speak of. Okay, I just looked up Boddhisatva vow. Really, I am reluctant to buy into that because I am afraid it would feed my ego. But I can't help but come to the conclusion that we did, at some time, make a committment

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-25 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau m@... wrote: Yes, I agree, and also feel that many are linked but have not fully consciously perceived or accepted it. But, simultaneously, many seem to have been but have now been liberated from that connection and are quite glad of it,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-25 Thread Mark Landau
Just one proviso, I don't think entertaining the possibility of having taken the Boddhisattva vow need feed ones ego. I think, over the millennia, millions of souls, many of whom were not necessarily that advanced, took those vows out a simple desire to be of service and, perhaps, for more

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-25 Thread seventhray1
I certainly agree. But I have a condition (as in ailment). I have to be careful of grandiosity. I mean I think Ihave been pretty successful in dealing with it for quite a few years now. But I just as well stay away from anything too high minded, even if to others it may seem to be a very

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: Please just stay... Second this, too. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau m@... wrote: LOL... I actually might give it a few more days, or even more.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-24 Thread Mark Landau
Thank you! Me, too. I loved Chris Hedges, too. Maybe it's actually beginning to happen, what we couldn't pull off in the 60s because it wasn't time. If so, who'da thunk it would begin with an Arab spring and OWS? I mean did anyone prophecy that??? I really think Eisenstein is right about

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-24 Thread Mark Landau
Why thank you, Ravi. You do surprise me. So many emails, so much mind-stuff, so little life force/time seemingly left in/to me. Maybe that will change. Maybe I'll finally free myself of these would-be rakshasa parasites (and/or my very own debilitating conditioning/ego-mind) and learn to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-24 Thread Mark Landau
Did you get to the part from The First Apocalypse of James where it talks about those who are from the Fallen Sophia? On Oct 23, 2011, at 11:55 PM, maskedzebra wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau m@... wrote: Hey Robin, Have you read this? I thought it might

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-24 Thread Mark Landau
Thank you, Judith. These have touched me. Beyond FFL, I am pretty isolated, though I've started to do a little volunteering. On Oct 24, 2011, at 12:53 AM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: Please just stay... Second this, too.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-24 Thread Ravi Yogi
Well Mark, I guess - been there, done that - part of the process. What is it that keeps us feeling alienated, isolated, separated from our creation? The fact that you feel these overwhelming emotions is great, it shows you are sensitive, that you are on the journey and will reach home soon. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-24 Thread seventhray1
Mark, I can relate to how you feel in many ways. One thing I have noticed is that financial worries can really put a crimper on things. I mean you may be healthy. You may have some degree of refined awareness. You may generally have a good dispostion. But when you have to confront financial

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-23 Thread seventhray1
Hey Mark, I like your posting here, but didn't you forget to tell us when you'd be unsubscribing again. Like we're down to one day, and 32 minutes. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau m@... wrote: Hey Robin, Have you read this? I thought it might interest you.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-23 Thread Mark Landau
LOL... I actually might give it a few more days, or even more. No promises on this one. Some good things have been coming through lately. I loved that Eisenstein article. A good friend tried to get me to go see him when he was here in Santa Fe, but I wasn't able to at the time, due to that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-23 Thread seventhray1
Well, count me among those who enjoy your contributions. I hope the good things continue to come through! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau m@... wrote: LOL... I actually might give it a few more days, or even more. No promises on this one. Some good things have been coming

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-23 Thread Ravi Yogi
Please just stay... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau m@... wrote: LOL... I actually might give it a few more days, or even more. No promises on this one. Some good things have been coming through lately. I loved that Eisenstein article. A good friend tried to get me to go

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

2011-10-23 Thread maskedzebra
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau m@... wrote: Hey Robin, Have you read this? I thought it might interest you. http://www.realitysandwich.com/Alex_Grey_Mind_Parasites Perhaps others, as well. Sorry if it's already been posted here, I haven't been keeping up. Mark, Nice to hear