New Member Introduction - Welcome to Sri Keith

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Namaste:

 

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

can look forward to his active participation with his

thoughtful insights,

 

Warmest regards,

>

> As a young child I was reared in a fundamentalist

> Christian sect, but in my

> private thoughts I was regularly thinking about the

> nature of my personal

> identity and the nature of reality and perception.

> My personal 'meditations'

> resulted in a most amazing alteration of my

> consciousness which I did not

> understand, and for which I had no context. The more

> I experienced the

> altered state, the more afraid I became, and the

> more it felt like if I

> continued I would disappear. At the time, this did

> not feel like a good

> thing. Although, I started avoiding the meditative

> state out of fear, I

> spent my adolescence and young adulthood doing

> research to try and discover

> if there were any accounts of, or context for, what

> I was experiencing. In

> the process I ended up with a PhD in Clinical

> Psychology and am currently a

> 50 year old practicing psychologist. At a course in

> Buddhism and

> Psychotherapy a nascent interest in eastern thought

> blossomed, and for the

> past couple of years I have immersed myself in

> Advaita teachings focused

> mainly on the Gita, Upanishads, and Ramana Maharshi.

> These teachings are the

> only teachings which make sense to me in light of my

> childhood experiences.

> I am interested in serious discussion of these

> things and was led to this

> group by Jerry Katz after finding other lists too

> frivolous.

>

> Thanks for your consideration,

>

> Keith McMullen

>

 

 

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