New Member Introduction: Welcome to Sri Dan

[Guest guest]

Namaste:

 

Let us welcome Sri Dan a new member to the list. We

can look forward to his active participation in the

list discussions with his thoughtful insights,

 

Warmest regards,

 

--- Humata wrote:

> Humata

> Advaitins

>

> My name is Dan and I work at a newspaper, in

> production, not editorial. I

> will be 50 soon. Among other things I am an

> illustrator and graphic designer.

> There is an illustration of mine on the web which

> another message board on

> uses for its introductory page.

> PhilosophyHotTub/ The

> image pertains to the

> rewrite of Genesis in two works of the find at Nag

> Hammadi. There is another

> image which relates to the constitution of man at

> http://www.geocities.com/lcborre/ along with some

> writings there to an online

> female friend I value, at

> http://www.geocities.com/lcborre/dan.html

>

> My interest in reality comes from experiences I have

> had, starting when I was

> 6 months old, and continuing throughout my life. So

> reading for me has to do

> with finding out what others have discovered, and

> compare and sift it to

> improve my own understanding, and improve my ability

> to express it. To help

> me communicate within another's metaphor of

> teachings what might be of

> interest to them I study eclectically in many

> traditions. Ramana Maharshi was

> associated with a major experience for me, although

> it is Harold Percival,

> his western counterpart, that I have been interested

> in mentally, since my

> experiences corraborate his work, Thinking &

> Destiny, directly. Ida Mingle,

> Krishnamurti, Shankara, Patanjali, Bailey, Steiner,

> Skarin, and Schucman have

> all been major sources to me, although I have read

> extensively since I was 8,

> the age at which I decided I wanted to know what the

> best minds knew about

> reality. Recently I have been studying Swedenborg

> (George Dole's trns) who I

> find remarkable, despite my belief that all the

> heavens he describes are

> beneath the Causal plane mentioned by Shankara.

>

> I live alone, make little money, have good friends I

> have known for half my

> life who share these interests of mine, and who have

> knowledge of their own.

> Best movie seen recently is "Spirited Away", which

> won an Academy award, and

> which I highly recommend, especially to those who

> study the world religions.

> I belong to no group, organization, or religion of

> any kind. And I believe

> there is no religion higher than the truth.

> Therefore my interest has been my

> own consciousness and its relations. My commitment

> is to the Real, and not,

> finally, to the teachings I've received, for "When

> pure perception without

> judical action of the mind is reached, there follows

> the gracious peace of

> the inner self. In that peace, perception is

> unfailingly true. The object of

> this percepton is other than what is learned from

> the sacred books, or by

> sound inference, since this perception is

> particular." - Patanjali

>

> Dan

 

 

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