What a positive post heading into the new year. Thanks for posting this.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "I am the eternal" <l.shad...@...> wrote: > > I have been an avid reader and participant of FFL for many years. > Because I don't want to blow my cover with the TMO I have taken a > pseudonym. I am overjoyed when I read the debates on global warming, > on the Middle East situation and other controversial matters on FFL > these days. Maharishi told us that we'd have difficulty seeing the > changes TM brought in us because consciousness takes on the form > knower, knowing and known and as the knower and process of knowing > changes, refines, the known appears different. Maharishi said that we > wouldn't notice great differences in ourselves because the process we > use in knowing would also change. > > So y'all might not notice this, but if you drag up debates on these > very formerly heated discussions on FFL, you see that there's a big > difference between now and a decade ago, 5 years ago, 3 years ago, > just a couple of years ago. Take Israeli. I've seen Israeli attacked > in the last couple of days over and over again. And in my opinion, > rightfully so. Israeli isn't the only bad guy. So many different > sides have blood on their hands and have been stirring the shit for so > many decades. But it seems to me this is the first time that one can > express displeasure with Israeli without immediately being attacked as > an anti-Semite. This is good, IMO. FFL used to be so polarized, so > full of hate, so full of attacks, of ad hominims, so full of jingoism. > Now it's possible to explore all sides of an issue and not get and > stay in a dog fight. > > I have some real doubts about my participation in the cult of TM. > Some real questions about the ME, the usefulness of the numbers in the > domes and of the pandits. What I can observe, as Yogi Berra would say > "with my own eyes", that there's so much more maturity, so much less > rancor on FFL. How can a bunch of people who follow all sorts of > spiritual paths be so full of hate and wanting to go for the jugular? > Those questions always bothered me. > > I am pleased and heartened by what I see here now. It's an awfully > good sign to me that the times they are a changin'. >
