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Re: Theos-World Re: NDE while Brain dead

Apr 27, 2005 05:48 PM
by Niki Durand


Dang, Leon, why all the words?!

When all you really wanted to say that you don't care
about my contact with Dionne...

Fine, she and I will continue to have a good time...

Now go back to your books and speculations...

I'll stick to my experience...

Niki


--- leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:

> 
> To Niki and others on this thread.
> 
> Whether or not I am interested in what Dionne taught
> you is irrelevant. 
> Also, what you implied by "scripture" has nothing to
> do with what's true or not.
> 
> I was referring to reading responses to previous
> correspondence that does not 
> quote what the writer is referring to, answering
> letters out of context, 
> changing subject lines in midstream, or just plain
> nonsense comments, unfounded 
> assertions, or personal remarks directed to
> particular individuals. Unless one 
> quotes the entire dialogue in any thread, this is
> not the way an open and 
> unmoderated topical discussion forum should work. 
> 
> But since you asked -- I am not particularly
> interested in anybody's personal 
> experiences based on any sort of contact with the
> dead (other than to refute 
> it as being of no value at all in increasing anyones
> knowledge of theosophy) 
> ... Since, my own knowledge and experience of
> occultism and mental or psychic 
> phenomena coupled with metaphysics and science goes
> deep enough to know that 
> much of such stuff referring to visions of the
> afterlife and seeing and talking 
> to the dead, are self delusional, strictly personal
> wishful thinking, or 
> chemically induced hallucinations (either through
> brain or gland dysfunction's or 
> ingestion of certain drugs) -- that doesn't help
> anyone else in understanding 
> the true nature of reality or attaining their own
> self realization or 
> enlightenment -- which depends solely on their own
> particular karma, and has nothing to 
> do with anyone else's karma or their imaginations or
> fantasies... That should 
> be kept strictly to themselves. 
> 
> But you can keep on writing all you want about it,
> and if I find it 
> theosophically interesting, I'll read some more. If
> not, I will ignore it. 
> 
> (The above was written more than a week ago.) 
> 
> Now that I've read some more about your imaginary
> experiences and what was 
> taught to you (which may or may not be true,
> wherever it came from) I can put it 
> in the same category of other spiritualists'
> delusions (as HPB did) -- that, 
> along with private chats and meaningless one line
> comments, has cluttered my 
> mailbox with almost 1000 letters having little of
> value in most of them (as I 
> presume from all the random reading of the past
> month)... And proceed to ignore 
> your letters along with all the other babblers using
> this theosophical 
> discussion forum as a personal, ego washing chat
> room. (Unless they are directed to, 
> or sent by me. :-) 
> 
> While I may disagree with your ideas and lack
> interest in your personal chats 
> with or about either living or dead lovers or your
> personal sexual 
> preferences or other physical needs, desires, or
> whatever -- no personal disparagement 
> is intended. :-)
> 
> (For you and others reading this) 
> So, since I can never catch up with my e-mail, I
> have decided to trash all 
> mail received from this forum, without opening...
> Except, possibly, letters from 
> a few theosophists that I am interested in, those
> with specific questions 
> directed to me in the subject line, or thread lines
> I have started or replied to. 
> 
> 
> From now on, if anyone want's to talk with me about
> theosophical metaphysics, 
> yoga, science, philosophy, or any other topic of
> common interest, please 
> write me directly. (I'll decide whether or not such
> correspondences are worth 
> public posting.) However, if you want me to read
> your letter to this forum, please 
> put my name on the subject line.
> 
> In the meantime -- since I am moving over to other
> monitored forums where I 
> can reasonably discuss theosophy and scientific
> metaphysics in some depth -- 
> you may hear from me occasionally if I start a
> thread here or someone asks me a 
> question. </:-)>
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Leon Maurer
> 
> 
> 
> 
> In a message dated 04/18/05 4:04:56 AM,
> nikidurand@yahoo.com writes:
> 
> >Hi Leon-
> >
> >So does that mean my experience with my recently
> >deceased mate, Dionne, since it isn't scripture, is
> >"off-topic"?
> >
> >Or would you be interested in what she's taught me
> >since she died?
> >
> >Curiously, 
> >
> >Niki
> >
> >
> >--- leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> In a message dated 04/17/05 1:57:06 PM,
> >> bartl@sprynet.com writes:
> >> 
> >> >
> >> >Mark Hamilton Jr. wrote:
> >> >> Theosophy teaches that there are actually not
> >> one, but seven parts of
> >> >> man and some of them separate at death.
> >> >
> >> > Any statement which starts out with
> "Theosophy
> >> teaches" is going to 
> >> >turn off a good portion of your audience. In
> >> addition, you are ignoring
> >> >the first principle of THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
> >> >
> >> > Bart
> >> 
> >> Would you mind explaining that? What's the
> >> relevance of your first remark? 
> >> What is the principle Mark is ignoring? How? 
> >> 
> >> Since this is an e-mail forum supposedly talking
> >> about theosophical subjects, 
> >> and not a chat room where anything goes, I get
> >> "turned off" by such out of 
> >> context and out of continuity remarks that have
> no
> >> relevance to the thread of 
> >> the subject line. 
> >> LM 
> >
> 
> 
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