Theos-Talk Archives (May 2000 Message tt00365)

What is the ultimate purpose. There is none. Life is a simple diversion.

Gita : 'All relationships are wombs of pain, for they have a beginning and
an end"

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> Subject: Theos-World RE: Ecstacy
>
>
> May 30th 2000
>
> Dallas observes:
>
> It has always been a mystery t me as to why people should ever
> thing that NON-THINKING and a forced entry (they hope) into the
> realms of SENSATION -- hopefully of BLISS, PLEASURE, and
> IRRESPONSIBILITY  are so valuable as a contrast with our present
> lives of learning and doing.
>
> Then take extraordinary risks with their slender connection with
> earth-reality, however onerous.
>
> Even to those who seek a personal spiritual path and goal -- the
> "carrot on the string" -- that is held out is MOKSHA and
> NIRVANA -- both supposed to be a liberation without
> responsibility from "earth-life."   Why is escapism deemed to be
> more pleasant and useful to endure ?
>
> And does that solve any real problems?
>
> Dallas
>
> D. T. B.
>
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: M K Ramadoss [mailto:ramadoss@eden.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 7:24 AM
> To: Theosophy Study List
> Subject: Ecstacy
>
> I have always wondered about the high demand of "recreational"
> drugs in the
> USA. Now comes Ecstasy.  There is agood article in the current
> Time
> magazine www.time.com. Here is an excerpt.
> mkr
> ===
>
>                     ECSTASY/HAPPINESS IS...A PILL?/THE SCIENCE
>                     JUNE 5, 2000 VOL. 155 NO. 23
>
>                     Ecstasy can occasionally enslave and
>                     occasionally offer transcendence. Usually, it
>                     does neither. For Adrienne, the Midwestern
>                     woman who has been a frequent user for the
> past
>                     five years, ecstasy is a key part of life. "E
> makes
>                     shirtless, disgusting men, a club with broken
>                     bathrooms, a deejay that plays crap and
> vomiting
>                     into a trash can the best night of your
> life," she
>                     says with a laugh. "It has done two things in
> my
>                     life," she reflects. "I had always been aloof
> or
>                     insecure or snobby, however you want to put
> it.
>                     And I took it and realized, you know what,
> we're
>                     all here; we're all dancing; we're not so
> different. I
>                     allowed myself to get closer to people.
>                     Everything was more positive. But my life
> also
>                     became, quickly, all about the next time I
> would
>                     do it...You feel at ease with yourself and
> right
>                     with the world, and that's a feeling you want
> to
>                     duplicate--every single week."
>
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