From: tt@wag.caltech.edu (Toshi Takeuchi)
Subject: Re: 10 Questions on Spiritual Guidance
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:07:04 GMT

jdavis@netlink.cts.com (James Davis) writes:

>1.    Widespread guru gullibillity means

>      a.  The desire for a teachers is stronger than the desire
>          for enlightenment.
>      b.  People are are superficial. 
>      c.  We are reacting to powerful thought-formations.

I'm not sure what you mean by guru gullibility.  Is this attachment
to false gurus or gurus in general?  

I think many people are manipulated by these false gurus.  This manipulation
occurs in many forms including powerful thought-formations if I read
you right on that one.


>2.    My values are

>      a.  born from the soul.
>      b.  laid upon me by my group karma.
>      c.  the standardized formula of the herd.

A partial mixture of all of the above for me.

>3.    Repeating a good mantra will lift your consciousness. 
>      True/False

If you get a "good" mantra, i.e. one that is good for your present state
of being, then it should open your being.

>4.    Most meditation is selfish and therefore not meditation at
>      all.   True/False

It doesn't matter what it is.  The process of trying, searching, and 
questioning is what is important in my mind.

>5.    Masters issue orders to their followers (or devotees) to do
>      thus and so, to form this or that organization.  True/False

Who are you referring to?  The "masters" who work for themselves, or
the masters who work selflessly?  Perhaps the answer is true for
both of them, but the motivation is completely different.

>6.    Disciples of the Masters deal in claim making and the art
>      of attracting attention.   True/False

It is natural in the growth process to think that your way is best.

>7.    A disciple may find it necessary to say, "The Master has
>      chosen me," or "The Master stands behind my effort," or "I
>      am the representative of Hierarchy."   True/False

It is natural in the growth process to identify with an organization
for security before standing securely on your own.

>8.    When most people shut out the physical world and stop
>      thinking, what they have left is 

>      a.  the spiritual world of reality
>      b.  the emotional-mental world illusions

Depends upon the person and their focus.  What some believe to be real
may be illusion.  What some believe to be illusion may be real.

>9.    Most spiritual guidance is

>      a.  subconscious "wish life."
>      b.  old aspirations from previous lives.
>      c.  communication (good, bad, or indifferent) from ordinary
>          discarnate people.
>      d.  unconscious telepathic "eavesdropping"
>      e.  contact with thought-formulations
>      f.  invasion by emotion-formulations
>      g.  from one's own mind
>      h.  from one's own soul
>      i.  from the Masters

If you ask for help, with pure intent, then you will receive it.
The only point to clarify is whether the help is real or manipulative
"invasion".  Focus through the heart and above the head and send it
to the help.  If the focus intensifies and the "help" remains, then
it is real, but if the help runs away, then it was false.  Evil
beings do not want to deal with energy from the heart, which helps
them to act selflessly.  They will shy away from that energy and
will flee.  

>10.   All people who have only two eyes and ears are blind and
>      deaf.  True/False

Most of us are blind and deaf 95% of the time.  Let's reduce that to
90%!

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