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yudhishtira wrote:But I feel it's important for those who identify with being BKs to be heard and seen here.

If I may be so presumptuous, I think everyone here is very glad that you do, yudhishtira :D.

However, if you have ever attended or taught the Positive Thinking course you will know that much of that stuff is left out and the knowledge condenses into what could be said was a psychological therapy course. I liked the Positive Thinking course. It wasn't so 'Indian' and 'Obscure' as the offici...

^^Pretty much a definition of Zen, john! :) :wink:

So, after a few minutes I woke and stood up to get ready for class, when I noticed things were not quite right around me. In particular, a part of the window sill was moving and drawing my attention intently. This strangeness pulled my attention until I felt almost sucked into it, then with a jolt ...

My second meeting was a lot less glorious. Maybe it had something to do with being shacked up with some real loonies in my dorm, and how one of them would jump out of bed at 3am every morning and have flashbacks of Vietnam or something with a whole flurry of dropping to the floor on his stomach and...

In Philosophy 101, back in community college, the teacher told us about how our perception of reality will always be colored by the lenses we see it through. For example if you look at the sky through a red lense you will believe the sky is red, a green lense and the sky is green. Neither of which ...

Very interesting post, thanks Paul :) One of the ways that I choose to be with G is when I manage to go deep inside and sit in stillness and then I 'feel' the connection being made. It feeds me what I need in order to always move forward. I know that this this method is taught by the BKs' but it wor...

Yes, its always after we die in religions that we get our reward. What a gip! I don't meditate at all now, I really appreciated your intoxication thread. I think its just a legal drug. Nothing wrong with that I suppose, but its not God is it? Alas no ... but self-brainwashing is like that, huh! :ro...

Ahhh :) a man after my own heart Mr G! Luckily, a shred of my innate scepticism remained and so I was never wholly 'captured' by the BKs...never got to the stage of believing in "Baba" when I was uh, 'asked to leave' lol. If I can truely say I have experienced any type of deity then I will...

I think they don't say so directly. That is the vibe that I think many of us got (and continue to get.) No need to SAY anything :mrgreen: ... insinuation is all that's needed ... as fear of losing your 'status' (and hence the senior's praise/affirmation of your rapidly rising spiritual prominence w...

Here we see a disjunction between the qualities and possibilities of an individual that a therapist might help to draw out, compared with the evaluation of a BK recruiter. The recruiter will tend to neglect the value of an individual unless he or she is able to convert others or to do practical wor...

^^I have, and it is indeed relaxing ... but has been deemed illegal now in Australia because some idiotic Norwegian who already had cirrhosis took an overdose of it and died of liver failure :roll:. Probably still available in the UK & US though. Unfortunately I seem to be allergic to valerian ....

Something I've been reading from a book 'Hardcore Zen' by Brad Warner 'If you do meditation long enough, this kind of thing can happen. Its a kind of sickness. Any kind of enlightenment that requires some mystical state is worse than useless. It just reinforces the belief that your "self" ...

Just imagine ... really famous people, utterly vulnerable and at a crisis point in their life ... what a better time to jump on them and turn them into Micropones! We can have Kate Moss, Mel Gibson, Anna Nicole Smith ... (OK, forget that last one, we can channel Anna Nicole Smith) ... I think it is...

I joined kinda by mistake lol Through misinformation by the medical profession who thought that I had a mental rather than a physical problem. But I was never looking for anything "spiritual" or "esoteric" in the slightest. Just pain relief :P. Which - thankfully! - made it fairl...