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posted May 11, 2008 04:49 AM         

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http://brontebaxter.wordpress.com/where-have-all-the-flower-children-gone/

(I'm not sure about copyright rules, so I'm just posting the link).

It's a very interesting article.

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posted May 11, 2008 04:50 AM         

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http://brontebaxter.wordpress.com/where-have-all-the-flower-children-gone-part-two/

Part 2.

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posted May 11, 2008 09:50 AM         

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"In 1987, when I left TM and Fairfield, I had lived 17 years within the movement’s perimeters. I’d seen the world go from flower power to mantra power. My friends had changed from buoyant folks delighting in free expression to paranoid people with phony smiles and legislated attitudes. It took me two years to break free of the thinking that kept me in Maharishi’s orbit. It felt traumatic, like a failed marriage. I didn’t know what was happening, but I knew I could no longer be part of it".

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posted May 12, 2008 01:49 AM         

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posted May 12, 2008 11:25 AM         

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-------"The mind is now deflected from experiencing pure consciousness in meditation. Advanced techniques inhibit that because the mind is too busy putting out for its deity, the god of the mantra, too busy “bowing down” to That. The gods harvest human consciousness, a source and storehouse of energy. Our life force becomes their food, and they receive it through the worship of advanced meditation."

Hey Listen to Trees, that was a very interesting article. I have a quick question. Why were the gods they were meditating to and doing mantras to able to derive energy from there consciousness. Why would a "god" need that?

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posted May 12, 2008 03:37 PM         

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I don't know. I am just a fellow pilgrim, searching for answers.

I like to keep an open mind about things.
Things which are neither provable, nor disprovable.

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posted May 12, 2008 03:56 PM         

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I can understand that. I just find it interesting. Thanks for the post though.

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posted May 12, 2008 03:59 PM         

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