Saturday, July 5, 2008

AFAIK: As far as I know

ATM: At the moment

BC: Brahman Consciousness: The 5th State of Predominant Consciousness, characterized by the dissolution or surrender of identification with the individual I-Am or Solar Angel or Causal Soul (identified with in Pre-Brahman Unity Consciousness) into the Great Immensity, the ISness of Now, the paradoxical That-Self. In its more ripened state of Post-Brahman Unity Consciousness, the 6th State of Predominant Consciousness, That-Self expands from the Causal to include the Manas, or lower Mind, and Buddhi, or the Intellect ripened into Intuition. That-Self has then supplanted the entire tri-partite individual Mind or Soul, and is aware that it can know anything it truly desires to know.

BTW: By the way

CC: Cosmic Consciousness: The 2nd State of Predominant Consciousness, characterized by awareness of Self as the Witness of automatic Action.

ET: Extra-terrestrial

FF: Fairfield, Iowa, home of Maharishi University of Management (M.U.M.), previously known as Maharishi International University (M.I.U.)

FFL: Fairfield Life, a Yahoo Group started by Rick Archer of Fairfield, Iowa

FWIW: For what it’s worth

GC: God Consciousness: The 3rd State of Predominant Consciousness, characterized by Celestial or Blissful Sensory-Perception. 

IIRC: If I recall correctly

IMHO: In my humble opinion

KC: Krishna Consciousness; Karttikeya Consciousness:  The 7th State of Predominant Consciousness; Post-Brahman God Consciousness.

MC: Maharishi Consciousness: The 8th State of Predominant Consciousness; Post-Brahman Cosmic Consciousness;

MMY: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

OTOH: On the other hand

POV: Point of view

PsOV: Points of view

SC: Shiva Consciousness: The 8th State of Predominant Consciousness; Post-Brahman Cosmic Consciousness;

TB: True Believer; Tyrannical Buddhi (a Buddhi or intellect not yet ripened into unitive intuition, but habitually discriminating to support a self-righteous ego in an “I-vs.-Thou” or an “Us-vs.-Them” separation)

TC: Transcendental Consciousness; the 1st State of Predominant Consciousness

TM: Transcendental Meditation

TMO: Trancendental Meditation Organization

TM7: The 7 states of consciousness as taught by the Transcendental Meditation Organization: Sleeping, Dreaming, Waking, Transcendence, Cosmic Consciousness, God Consciousness, Unity Consciousness. The last four of these are the first four States of Predominant Consciousness in the Rorian model.

UC: Unity Consciousness: The 4th State of Predominant Consciousness, characterized by identity of Subject and Object; particularly the mergence with the personal God, Solar Angel or Causal Soul.

UFO: Unidentified flying object

 YMMV: Your mileage may vary

 

Rick Archer created the Yahoo Group Fairfield Life  (FFL) around 2000 A.D.

There is a funny story about how Rick and Tom Traynor found Rory Goff on the web and invited him to join FFL and Wednesday night Satsang via conference call.  I will wait until Rick can post the story in his own words.

I include here the posts that Rory wrote, which are available for free at FFL at Yahoo, but include here for convenience, and maybe jumping off points for discussion.

- Rena

Posting December 2003 on FFL:

Thank you, Rick, for creating this site, and inviting me to join! And thank you, Vashti, for sowing the seed when you first told me of Rick’s site some months back! I am so pleased and honored to be here in “Virtual Fairfield.” And say what we like about MMY (and  I have said plenty in the past), I would probably never have met any of you who have meant and continue to mean so much to me, were it not for him. For the untold wealth of such satsangs, my deepest thanks. Love, Life and Laughter to us all! — Rory

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