[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

I feel for all those who are anxious—and that includes some in my own family. Fortunately our specialty—and for many of us, our profession—is (in essence) making lemonade out of lemons. Maharishi left the deep silence of the Himalayas to eliminate suffering, to reconstruct the entire world for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

..On both sides of the political divide people are feeling anxious and concerned about the possible outcomes, and many are worried as to whether or not tensions will continue to rise afterwards. Many people are left feeling powerless by all of this — they are feeling that all they can do is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Letting social agitation dis-organize our spiritual body.. “A belief has emerged in America that we are surrounded by hidden dangers that will strike when we least expect it and with a terrible fury. We are enraged when others don’t see it, for the same reason someone being ignored when he says

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Related, of a 'Disordered', damaged or frayed spiritual fabric.. Olliesedwuz wrote in 430768: A: Yeah, it is a curious problem these days, with tech providing us with 'super-powers', yet we still struggle to rise to the consciousness that will make tech less disruptive, and more

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Of the damaged and social fabric ‘frayed’, this NPR critique does highlight the new order of imperative for directly pursuing a program of collective meditation in what will be the period following the national election.The critique gives good reason to do this that we know.. With the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

# ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : excerpts from a FF coffee haus satsang.. " ..but this is where we are at right now. We have an entire environment right now that is in such wildly varied levels of understanding and comprehension of this stuff.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

excerpts from a FF coffee haus satsang.. " ..but this is where we are at right now. We have an entire environment right now that is in such wildly varied levels of understanding and comprehension of this stuff. Because of all kinds of questionable reasons, the whole thing of computers

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Of The Electronic of Postmodern, "..I have just worked with a string of these. I can’t prove it but my feeling is that it is that these situations got debased. That there are parts of them that knew this was wrong, it was going in a bad way, and in cases people kill themselves to get out of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Yep, that shit is insidious. Once you start believing it, the ego can co-opt quite a story from anxieties, etc. Just stay in the body, not so much in the head, and live moment by moment. Negative perspectives are often a reflection of the state of the body and the mind. They can almost appear

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

The postmodern 'Social Problem'.. Example even on FFL: "I don't know about the rest of you but I am very nervous to watch the first debate." Postmodernism is largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality. ---In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

"So then what happens in the emotional fields of the subtle system astrality is if that (agitation) persists then one, it is debasing; it, two, also starts to impact because the emotional body is so close, we could say, it in such an intimate relationship to the physical body, then the angry

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

“..Being compassionate about all this makes it very interesting. It makes you feel for them. The spiritually disorganized. One can do a lot of praying for them, ask “Help, please! This is big”. “Here is an angel level situation here, could you come and help right now!” And, angels are

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

It seems not uncommon to run into friends and associates who are suffering in agitation by the media of current events. Suffering even to a point of disability. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Fairfield, Iowa spiritual satsanga observes what with

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

The Fairfield, Iowa spiritual satsanga observes that with the collective agitation in politics, the world, and media, the recommendation is: “..keeping our core steady with spiritual practices, being engaged with good works and good people, keeping our focus there” Around a table, one

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Postmodern mental and emotional commotion.. Vritti, literally "whirlpool", is a technical term in yoga meant to indicate that the contents of mental awareness are disturbances in the medium of consciousness. ..There are bodies, energy sheaths in the system. They are called kosha. This is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

"What happens in astrality, the astral, and again my understanding (experience) might not be perfect but it seems to be part of this is that it seems to be the astrality can have this incredible burden of emotionality, this emotional material that is not being processed so it is bombarding the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Q: spiritual practice? A: “..So in the subtle system, a beauty of subtle energy work [spiritual practices] is that it is so unequivocally divine. In a way it is giving the system an opportunity for that moment, and then again for this moment all they have to do is go back to it. But in that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Q:With some awareness you could use all the Maharishi programs to actually remove chaos? A: Absolutely, if it is understood that way. ] Q: In behavior and ethics, what is good and what is bad action relative to, does behavior help base an energy system or where does behavior debase it,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

A: "This really comes down to physics because either behavior and practices raise the vibrational rate or lowers it. That should be the criterion, it is not that you are evil, it is just if it is becoming lower vibration or higher vibration. Is the energy system more durable or not?" -FF

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Your observation and caution is quite fair. For instance, Guru Dev (Brahmananda Saraswati in his discourses) talked about it, Yogananda discerned it in his writings, David Hawkins used to advocate that people avoid what he called, the ‘austral circus‘ of realms of spirits, voices and such

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Yes, I see your point. However, I don't think that being ignorant of oneself is much different, be it astrally, divinely, emotionally, etc. I do agree that straight up psychotherapy is useful sometimes to unravel the stories people build in their heads. A lot of magical thinking or at least a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Your particular observation here and caution is quite fair. For instance, Guru Dev (Brahmananda Saraswati in his

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

non-attachment is an overused concept, but if thought of impersonally, it is the only way we can exist both free, and aware of the astral spectrum. Built in, not added on. Otherwise, if we indiscriminately use our ability to access the astral realms, we can be led astray by the many entities

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Q: “Held in the Astrality” What do you mean, ‘held in the astral’?… A: ..‘De-based’. Debasing because of an injury, or a separation or shock, exacerbated by influence, it is held in the astral. There are bodies, energy sheaths in the system. They are called kosha. This is in ayurveda.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Within the spiritual energetics of postmodern technology: “..But it is a tall order. There is so little spiritual support yet in the environment and certainly because there is so little of it in the realm of where they are looking. If one is looking into bestiality, if you are looking into

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

It is interesting. Fairfield, Iowa is full of cultivated long time spiritual practitioners, folks who have been aware and consciously disciplined in cultivating an inner life, many folks for three, four, five and some for six decades. The satsang here by this experience is fabulously

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

I don't get it - Is this an observation, a proclamation, a warning, what is it? I don't understand the attention this one facet of life is getting, as if it is something that needs attention. It sounds like the speaker is implying something outside their self be fixed to their satisfaction,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

This person sounds as though he or she is seriously stressed out... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : De-grading.. "Usually for most of us mere mortals it seems to be sort of a graduated evolutionary process that allows for these higher vibrational values

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

De-grading.. "Usually for most of us mere mortals it seems to be sort of a graduated evolutionary process that allows for these higher vibrational values to keep going. When you have in place and you have in play in this other agitated realm what you have is phenomenally bad, I am saying bad

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

I am not criticizing them personally. When I said they must be mood-making, it was because of the suggestion from your quote that the Internet, or 'smart phones' or something in that direction, was making it more difficult for spirituality to exist (I am paraphrasing). My point was that inner

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Stop describing any and all criticism, no matter how mild, as "character assassination," Doug. You've been the target of *real* character assassination; you ought to know better than to use the term when it's not warranted. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Actually these people, the maha teachers and the ‘ordinary spiritually awakening’ around here do agree with your prescription, Ollie. You would find them practical and real in life as you are teaching. But to assume and castigate them as moodmakers seems just more ad hominem, character

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Agreed. Also, if these 'spiritual teachers' are concerned about the effects of the astral world, they need to meditate and integrate their silence more. There is a natural momentum upwards towards sattva once sufficient sadhana is done. If the astral is still grasping or they are overly

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

As householders we don't have much choice but to go full steam ahead - it's our karma in action, karma yoga. Much of the stress we sometimes experience is due to being unable to balance spiritual life with work life. Apparently that's why the siddha yogis of ancient India invented tantra

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Yep, maybe describes a societal agitation of a Trump in mass-media. A difference is that these spiritual insights by contrast offer what can be used directly as a remediation to what is seen as a spiritual societal agitation in meditation, study, engaging socially to be of help to others.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

I have to laugh and shake my head at this "commentary" because it sounds so much like Trump's "Be afraid, be very afraid" speech at the convention--not so much the specifics, but the "sky is falling" tone. I agree totally with Olllie; it's the silliest kind of moodmaking. And when it comes from

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

A Postmodern marination of the Etheric bodies in mass [digital technology] media of horrific image, violent gaming, pornography.. A Fairfield, Iowa Coffee haus Satsang commentary: So what do they do? It is like an addiction, is that they don't know where to look so they keep looking back into

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Ollie, you are right on both levels. I am journalizing here about what [great] spiritual people also are observing in their experience. Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama proly say the same thing, my sister-in-law who is deep with the SRF [Yogananda] spiritual movement reports similarly, that a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Am I reading this right? This notion that being connected to the Internet somehow destroys our inner silence? That sounds like mood-making. There is nothing that can destroy the silence within, unless it is unstable and not yet established. Once established, it quietly radiates. That's it.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

The Spiritual Fairfield, Iowa Coffee haus Satsanga observes, post-modernism: Debasing, debasing in a sense, it sounds like a judgement but it is not. All it is is in degrees of separation from your spiritual center. All it is is degrees of connection to your spiritual center. Quite

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

We are no longer watering the root. We are losing the (spiritual) arts to distractions of the internet and gradually the subtle disappears from the world. Sit easy in meditation. Do sadhana. Go inside, going inside is very important when one gives up our body (to the 'commotion') then we

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Mental chaos, Vritti, literally "whirlpool", is a technical term in yoga meant to indicate that the contents of mental awareness are disturbances in the medium of consciousness. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : An observation about this within

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

An observation about this within Satsang Fairfield is that: Hologramatic information goes with the light body soul, Epigentic resonance goes with the physical dna as family line. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : "Something internal has to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

"Something internal has to take place.." MMY apparently said, “All stress is in the heart”. Getting to the heart there was an insightful bit of journalism on NPR Marketplace recently. Ostensibly the piece was about racism in America. But within the piece there was an insightful bit

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

In ongoing satsanga in Downtown Fairfield, Iowa the spiritual satsanga observes: that people overburdened and destabilized.. "So then it spins out, the spiritual ego, the sense of “I am a being of light, I am connected to God”, a spirit, a inner life is not there. So then they are tormented

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Dispirited. Interesting by comparison, the coming on of the industrial revolution propelled by technologies that displaced 18th and 19th Century artisan and village life into concentrated urban slums, concentrations of wealth moving people off of land and out of homes, evidently triggered a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

I been reading about the Paris communard of the 1870’s and they talk about this mental agitation of their period as “the social question”. There was lots of mental commotion going on then also with varying models of description about what was going on and the cause. Eventually Marx published

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

I been reading about the Paris communard of the 1870’s and they talk about this mental agitation of their period as “the social question”. There was lots of mental commotion going on then also with varying models of description about what was going on. Eventually Marx published his own

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

This is true, Ollie but here it is observed again about the collective in trend.. I am out in NJ right now on a meditation retreat weekend where a post-modern mental agitation or chaotic disability is again pointed at as a collective phenomena in the subtle or spiritual system of nervous

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

The issue though exacerbated by these digital baby sitters aka smart phones, is the imbalance within. Nothing wrong with communication devices. I sure don't want a return to tethered rotary phones, and have my weekly source of trivia be antenna TV, and "That's Incredible!", with Kathy Lee

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Within Satsang Fairfield, Iowa.. There is satsang, spiritual conversation, going on all the time it seems everywhere you go in Fairfield. In shops, on the streets and sidewalks in passing, at the hardware store, out while pumping gas, in the grocery stores, on porches, in cafes. Active

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

These Fairfield people and Ammachi for example are looking at what seems an ambient mental field ‘agitation’ going on in the collective, and looking at evidently what is debasing that is trend in the rise of the post-modern digital/media age. Someone relating: I worked recently with a dad, he

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Yes, your sensibility about ‘pedal to the metal' is practical advice along with MMY’s ‘dying the cloth’ for ‘meditate and act’ as analogy for spacey-cadet seekers along the way.. And, assuming there is a collective increase in spirituality going on, as you say, to integrate spiritual growth as

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Yep, there are always trade-offs and challenges with any new technology. Not sure why this is a big deal. Sometimes it seems that the increased sensitivity growing from spiritual practices ends up making people weaker and more victimized, which is standing the whole thing on its head. The best

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Mental chaos, of the Post-Modern World.. Someone in Fairfield commenting It depends on the situation but some can have a phenomenal amount of mental agitation. Sometimes when I put my hands out and feel into their emotional body, there is such distress, So much that it throws them

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

On 07/07/2016 06:03 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: No, Empty, Maharishi was very much working on this too in his last technique that he was developing in the last years of his life, the Ved and Physiology technique. This was a technique to cultivate the integration of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

Grace! 'Tis a charming sound, Harmonious to the ear; Heav'n with the echo shall resound, And all the earth shall hear. Grace first inscribed the way To save rebellious man; And all the steps that grace display, Which drew the wondrous plan. Grace taught my wand'ring feet To tread the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Disabling the Post-Modern Human Being..

No, Empty, Maharishi was very much working on this too in his last technique that he was developing in the last years of his life, the Ved and Physiology technique. This was a technique to cultivate the integration of the mental fields and subtle system fields in the body of the human