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Jhanas@yahoogroups.com
Sep 1, 2008 12:22 pm
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Jeff Brooks has maintained a daily meditation practice for 34 years, has completed 2 three-year retreats, and attended well over 50 meditation retreats....
Jhanas@yahoogroups.com
Sep 1, 2008 12:22 pm
14999
AntiMatters is an open-access e-journal addressing issues in science and the humanities from non-materialistic perspectives. Current issue:...
Hello David, good to know that you engaged in a self-retreat of rigorous meditation practice. I agree with Daniel, you were experiencing a transformative...
Dear Jeffrey, I used the search tool on the site to try and answer my own question, but am still unsure if what I am experiencing is Jhana or something prior...
... At this ... the ... I think that the charmisms vary from person to person really. This really sounds like what Jeff calls 'the transition from 2nd to 3rd ...
Hi, Hugh. ... Two cents: The question wasn't put to me, but if it will help, I know what you mean about your attempt to determine which jhana you experience....
Hi, I'm just puttin g in my two cents worth which is probably inflated up/down to a half penny by now LOL> This fits the description of kundalini feelings,...
Hi, Jeff, I had just read david's account of his hours of meditation and he mentions the guru myth of leaving the body for long periods and I am thinking,...
Hello Hugh, and welcome to the JSG. It is a pleasure to read your descriptions of your meditation experiences here. Most of the people who report phenomena in...
Hi David, I asked a friend about your experience and he said it is very dangerous to meditate for 30 hours and one can go insane - just wanted to pass that on...
Hello everyone, I would like to share with you another experience that I had during my 27 hour retreat this weekend. I open this experience to any input or...
Dear David, ... They felt very beautiful and I was somewhat overpowered by the experience, it felt as if some higher being was directing my awareness towards a...
Hello Eve, David and others, yes, I agree with Eve, it is not the clothes that make the guru, but a sucker is born every minute, and people are just naive, so...
Hello friend David, it is good to receive another retreat report from you. It sounds like your rigorous meditation practice is paying off quite well. I only...
Hi, eve here. I s anyone on this group actually partners/married to someone who is also a contemplative? I mean, when I peruse singles ads, not wanting to be...
Hi eve, my husband is a contemplative. we live our lives in relative silence, meditate together. both of us pretty much into quiet space .. yet we are happily...
thats what I'm talkin about!! with a few differences but basically, yeah. eve ... silence, ... we ... i ... the ... am ... content ... to ... anymore, ... ...
... a ... dark ... Hey Jeff, yes to answer your inquery I am doing regularly daily pratice up to seven hours, and averaging around four hours. Perhaps ...
Hello David, it is excellent to read that you are leading a daily contemplative life that produces gnosis for you, and that you lead regular self-paced weekend...
Dear David, I went through a 40 day retreat, which is traditional in many faiths, during which I meditated 24/7. I made rapid progress, with many visions, and...
you say you met by accident. personally I don't believe in "accidents" like that. I've had too many of these "accidents" to think otherwise! but they dont...
hi eve... i wrote, " he is much younger than i am.. 31 years to be precise. i met him online ( by accident.. as if there are such things as accidents)... " ...
Contemplative Recovery vs spiritual bypass Hello friends, while I believe that we should consider that the psychological community may have a conflict with a...
Wonderful discourse Jeffrey on the failures of the religious recovery method. In AA circles, as well as medically based recovery systems it is well known that...
... A dear friend of mine, of a philosophical and contemplative nature, has written and drawn a short book, and posted it and his artwork on a website. His...
HI all. the spiritual bypass topic is a recent issue in transpersonal psychology. It describes a conditon wehre someone has jumped up a few levels on Maslow's...
... Hey Angelina, Im 24 and I've been practicing on one level or another for almost 5 years. However I don't consider that I really began practicing until I...
Interesting premise. It reminds me of the argument we used to see here about jhanas and supression of the fetters. It is proposed here on our listserve that...
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