Hello friends, please excuse this alert, but it has just come to my attention that some people who have become offended by the critical work of the GWV and its...
Hello friends, I am glad to hear that so far only a few people on the GWV listserves have reported off-list harassment. It unfortunately does happen from...
Hello dear friends thank-you all for posting your contribution and helping make the dialog on this list interesting and respectful. I am sorry that I wont be a...
Hello The other day when I meditated it came to me Time is an Illusion When I started in 7.th class in 1967, when I was 12 years old I got baphisted. 4...
Hello friends, the GWV jhana retreat in Gold Hill, CO is underway right now. It is ever so nice to sit in meditation with my dear old friends Michael and Karen...
HI, I am the one trying for kundalini, and am already having relationship issues. I hope it's ok If I post this on here. I am not married, but have been with...
Hello kohlrabi_croce, and welcome to Shiva_Shakti. Relationship problems are common, and kundalini only exacerbates those problems. If we can keep in mind...
Dear kolhrabi-croce i am in no way qualified to give advices.......had 'walked' the same road for a while...i hope this helpes.... you wrote: I'm just...
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...
Hello friends of the GWV, due to continued requests for a comprehensive commentary on the Buddhist canonical point of view on meditative absorption ...
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...
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...
Hello friend Nirodha, I believe a reading list would be most interesting to build and maintain, and I expect it to have many contributors. Ernest on the GWV...
Complete set of the Pali Canon in English Translation 43 books in total (set for non-members) Set ISBN 425 3 £990.00 « Add to Basket » Books included: ...
Hello friends, you are invited to join GWV Meditation Research. This list is dedicated to research on meditation and its attainments. Our mission statement is...
Hello dear friends Tony, Nirodha and others. Welcome to the four new members to this list. On the topic of Kundalini, Tony has proposed a series of questions....
Today I was scouting for a campsite and inadvertently backed into a culvert that was so over grown that I did not see it. The right rear wheel fell into the ...
Hello friends the GWV is interested in researching meditative absorption (gnosis, shamatha, jhana, samadhi) and its associated phenomena. Any research project...
Hello dear friend Alton, you are certainly welcome to quote and post freely from my websites. Everything that I have written is there. With respect to your...
The following is excerpt from an Experience of Meditation (July 23, 2004) http://www.greatwesternvehicle.org/experiencemeditation.htm Additional information...
Hello Alto, you asked me to post this so I did. I updated it a little before I posted it. Some Answers to Questions Regarding The Personal Experience of...
The Great Western Vehicle is conducting research into the phenomena of meditative absorption. If you believe that you may be experiencing any kind of...
Hello Dave, and others, while it certainly may sound like a conspiracy when we find that the people who experience meditative absorption (gnosis, jhana. ...
Hello friends, I have returned from retreat in Virginia and I am now leading a retreat in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Saturday 10-07-06 At 8:30 PM I decided to move...
Hello friends, Will, Tony, Suzy, Sam, Surendra and others. Thank-you Sam for reminding us of Diwali. Regarding sensations around the various chakras, such as...
Hello Spiridon, thank-you for your reply to my journal entry. I am in Altoona, which is not very close to Erie, but travel there could be arranged if you...