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This fella has a network of articles about Vedanta, Zen, Buddhism, Shamanism and the overall spiritual path.
He has a nice recollection of scriptural and textual knowledge, apart from a number of histories of his own, but in spite of his spiritual achievement (he is,
apparently, a realized soul or jivanmukta *free while living*) he fails to know a number of things, particularly of the nagual path.
For starters, this guy says he meet briefly Castaneda before his apprenticeship under Don Juan. He speculates that the Death Defier is sort of a hungry
inorganic being and even questions the veracity of Castaneda's writings. Nothing in his website suggests the development of the second attention, dreaming
and seeing.
Still, this guy is for real. He learned, at some point, from a man of spells in Jamaica and had several encounters with powerful individuals, both yogis and
shamans.
Apparently he was only fleetingly interested in these things. He was (is) only interested in enlightenment. He achieved nirvikalpa samadhi in his early
thirties (he is now seventy two).
Several decades later he started this Awakening 101 Free Dharma Web Course with him as the anonymous author / contributor. His humble efforts are paying up...
and as a funny detail, he has Paris Hilton in his friends list (on MySpace). Paris wanted to learn from him.
Worthy of looking up.
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I think his approach is good, yeah guys look him up; http://sped2work.tripod.com/satori.html
He has a few things on castaneda.
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Visiting this guy in dreaming could be interesting.
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I've been on myspace to check his page. Yes, he does have Paris hilton has a friend. And he his 70 years old. And a zen master.
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Interesting site. The fact that he listed Ramana Maharshi as his main inspiration is good.
It's interesting that he connects Ramana's Vedanta method and Zen together.
Personally I've done a lot of work using Ramana's method, it's quite powerful.
I met Nisagardatta Maharaj's heir Ramesh Balesakar in 1991. That was one of the most intense and enlightening meetings I have ever had.
One of my Spritual Friends, Ruth Dennison hosted him at her retreat center in Joshua Tree. Bascially about ten people had access to him for an entire weekend.
As it is, I think Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism spring from the same branch.
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Vrill wrote:
Interesting site. The fact that he listed Ramana Maharshi as his main inspiration is good.
He says so much more! He says he meet Ramana personally while beeing very young under very strange circumstances and his silent guidance remained with him. He
was born in the states! Imagine! His personal master also meet Ramana personally. The Wanderling didn't remember his trip to India for the longest time. A
trauma in his tonal life blocked that memories.
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You are right about that! There is a lot of information there. His Buddhist references are excellent. Amazing stuff!!!
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Vrill wrote:
You are right about that! There is a lot of information there. His Buddhist references are excellent. Amazing stuff!!!
Regretably, he (aparently) neglected the cultivation of nagual seership. A sad thing, because with his realization it could have been an extremely easy thing
to do.
PS: Post number 200! My God.
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"PS: Post number 200! My God."
You got a link to that?
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Bob May wrote:
"PS: Post number 200! My God."
You got a link to that?
The Wanderling
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Namaste,
As the Wanderling doesn't have site map, may be you'll like this one :
http://wanderling.tripod.com/castaneda.html
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Bob May wrote:
"PS: Post number 200! My God."
You got a link to that?
Just getting the what you meant here Bob... it was MY post number 200. That's a lot of posts!
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Hi all,
I have an interesting story about the Wanderling site. Here goes: When I was 21 I learned to meditate, trying to cope with fear. Shortly thereafter, I had a
dream where I was viewing a field, and an almost naked man in a loin cloth and holding a big stick was staring at me intensly. I had no idea who this was at
the time, but being a BIG dream it stuck with me clearly for years. About 10 years later, I saw a picture of Ramana Maharshi and realized it was him. Now more
than 10 years later, last year to be exact, I stumble across the Wanderling site, and I read it all and kept going back to it on occasion. Early one morning
during this time, I was awakened by a feeling that someone was next to me, a awoke with a start, and next to my bed, clearly, is a floating head, it is Ramana
Maharshi. Why a floating head??? I don't know, I really haven't mentioned this to anyone, cause it sounds a bit crazy. I just stared at him or his
head, floating there, and blinked and rubbed my eyes, he was still there, then his head just floated away and disapeared. Weird huh? Has anyone ever heard of
him appearing as just a head, is that done. Anyway, I LOVE Ramana and feel very connected to him, I guess I should.
Artwarrior
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Hi artwarrior.
very interesting that you get visited by a teacher. Thats great! Please try to talk to him.
MS
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Hey Morning Son,
I am tryyyyyiiiiiing to talke with him, believe me! Still no luck in seeing him, but hey, a visit every 15 years or so is pretty good for me. At the moment I
am making some artwork that has Ramana Maharshi in it, as I am trying to cast off the intellectual bullshit that you learn in getting an "Art"
degree. I want to make art that reflects my personal journey, not some expected **** from an "artist". This is a tough thing, making art that
expresses what I might experience of the nagual can come out looking like mamby pamby new agey overly sentimental garbage or I could hit it like Alex Grey and
blow the doors off it. We'll see.
Artwarrior
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Hi Art,
"I want to make art that reflects my personal journey, not some expected **** from an "artist"."
Sounds like a great idea. Art should be from inside out. I would look forward to seeing some.
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Hi Bob,
I wanted to show you a piece of sculpture that came completely from dreaming while awake, it was an image that came to me as I went on long walks with my
dogs. I was reading and thinking about Castaneda's work at the time, this was about 2002, then in 2003/04? I was back in school studying art, I made this
image in bronze, it was my first metal sculpture. I live in the South, so pine trees were all around me and I pictured this image in my peripheral vision as I
walked and meditated, manta flowing. I have been wanted to share this image with you after reading your post in "The tree of life..." thread.
Bob May Wrote:
"I have always wondered about this. Does man look like a tree to some level of inner sight?
You are the first to confirm my theory. It did not make sense that it took Jesus two trys to heal this man.
I knew it had to be for some specific reason that this story is told in this unique way. "
Mark 8:22 And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.
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And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
24 And he looked up, and said, I SEE MEN AS TREES, WALKING.
25 After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
26 And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town
Bob
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Very cool!!
I guess I know now at least one guy sees men as trees walking. At least while walking your dog. Ha Ha!
I've done some casting and wood carving but no bronze. That is cool.
Good job on the guy too.
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Very nice piece of warrior art
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In the olden times trees could move but very very slowly.
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Don't trees move now..all plants move toward the light; which sustains them.
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