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Originally Posted by rafi

There is a tendency among New Agers to conflate two very different approaches to enlightenment. Since it is often taken for granted by westerners that their own traditions are inadequate, they seek answers from the east.

Thus ideas about returning to the One, that the physical world is merely illusion, that human life is about escaping suffering by not wanting anything, that time is really only cyclical, that identification with the ego and with separation is error, etc. Sure,

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Originally Posted by rafi

All this anxiety (or misplaced hope) was why I stayed off the IS boards for the last couple of months. I figured few were in a mood to listen to anything they didn't want to hear. Sure, I have the usual indigo traits-- heavy ESP, into spirituality, do astrology, New Age interests, etc.

But I don't automatically believe the self-proclaimed channelers, the feel-good aren't we special types, the indiscriminate posting of material lifted off the internet with no attempt to verify

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I really want my life to be full. I want to travel to so many different places. Australia, England, Japan, China, India. I also want to see more of the US. I want to help all walks of life. I want to clean the ocean, I want to raise tigers and elephants, I want to reduce humanity's impact on forest life. I want to feel my spirit awaken as I do these things. I want to reach a state of peace and happiness that never goes away. I very passionately want to go on adventures and experience so many different ...

Most of you have probably watched this documentary already, but maybe you can share it with your aunts and uncles that are members of the Tea Party

''The Billionaires' Tea Party (Full Length Documentary)''

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSAzYWmsiwI




Greg Palast on the Real News:

''Koch Brothers and the Road to "Citizens United"''

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ybl9roaHe0 ...

Sri Aurobindo

The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence. The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Supreme and far above all she creates. But something of her ways can be seen and felt through her embodiments and

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