Hello friends, Theresa, Rebecca, universalangel2003, trevor, kohlrabi, Nirodha and Rose, thank-you ever so much for keeping the dialog interesting, ...
Hello, If you use matrimonial sites, you should check Happy Harmony out. You can email and IM other members without paying anything on this site. They also...
Hello friends, a few years ago I led a weekend workshop on jhana in Santa Monica, CA. Millennium Twain, was my gracious host. At that workshop I showed the...
Hello friends the recorded dialogs from the last GWV 10-day Jhana/Samadhi retreat in Gold Hill have now been made available on-line. It took a concerted...
As an Anthropologist looking at religion I find there are a number of purposes for religion. Most notably it is one of the important ways by which people...
I believe the very purpose of the spiritual and/or contemplative life is the intentional cultivation of what is often called a "profound spiritual experience."...
Hello friend Hugh, thank-you for asking your most interesting question regarding ³spontaneous awakening.² First, in most cases of reported ³spontaneous...
Thankyou Jhanananda, If there is no history in either the practice of the healing arts, some of which can be very meditative; and/or there is no history of the...
... Namaste Voltec, Can you define crazy? I mean I studied psychology and there are different answers for different symptoms. I did not finish my degree but...
Dear Hugh: There appears to be two schools on this subject, which I have brought to the attention of the group in the past. Our moderator is primarily...
Regarding a profound spontaneous awakening--Paul has one of the greatest recorded spontaneous awakenings--he was literally knocked off his horse and blinded by...
Beloved Friends, My name is Ma Prem Dharia. I would like to invite those who are interested to the mystery school of a living awakened Master, Swami Anand...
DO IT NOW! http://paroissien.free.fr/ref/doitnow.htm THE EXPLANATION: The only practice there is is called "Abidance as the Self" or "Dwelling in Eternal...
Dear friends please excuse me for my absence from this list serve. I have left Boulder and am now sitting in my van at 10,000 feet above sea level in the...
Hello friends of the GWV, due to continued requests for a comprehensive commentary on the Buddhist canonical point of view on meditative absorption ...
Happy Summer Solstice for the Northern Hemisphere Happy Winter Solstice for the Southern Hemisphere The CANCER 2006 issue of MYSTIC MEANINGS is now online at ...
Hello friends Sue, Timothy, Hugh and Serenity, and thank-you for your contributions. I would like first to dispel one ugly rumor, I am not a Buddhist, nor do...
Was Jesus the Maitraya Buddha? If we examine Siddhartha Gotama¹s prophesy of the future Buddha, we may find evidence that he was predicting the life of Jesus...
Dear Jhanananda, In the following post you mention that Paul's experience of spontaneous awakening may have been datura, a drug... "Regarding .Saul, who became...
Happy Summer Solstice for the Northern Hemisphere Happy Winter Solstice for the Southern Hemisphere The SUMMER 2006 issue of SOVEREIGN SELF is now online at ...
Dear Rose, I hope you don't mind me butting in, but as someone whom has actually partaken of hallucinogens and quasi-hallucinogens -- LSD, Psilocybe mushrooms,...
Dear Nirodha, Thanks for your illuminating comments on the drug scene. You are right to point out that mind altering drugs are part and parcel of most...
Hi everybody, I'm hope i'm not diverting too far from the subject at hand. Re Jhananda's illuminating piece about the Marvel Comic approach too illumination,...
Dear Rose, You're very welcome. I wasn't really commenting on the 'drug scene' though, if by that you are refering to popular recreational drug culture -...
Hi Nirodha, Perhaps I've skipped a few beats and am missing something in the back and forth. But in your post as below you refer to the 'future Buddha'. Was...
