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Recieved: 2001/07/08  20:05  
Subject: [K-list] Another urban myth strikes again 
From: Pieter Schoonheim Samara
  
On 2001/07/08  20:05, Pieter Schoonheim Samara posted thus to the K-list: Dear Angelique,
 
Sounds like another urban myth, another conspiracy theory, another Masonic 
or secret order.  Hopefully, most people will practice the yoga and have 
this experience.  What benefit can be derived by become sidetracked.
 
It would be somewhat disingenuous to explain the practice, mechanism and 
experience one can have in practicing this Yoga, and then not mention some 
place where one can find books, tapes, videos and teachers.
 
I first met Yogi Bhajan in April of 1970 in LA.  He explained the 
experiences I was having from practicing the type of Raja Yoga I had learned 
from Baba Ram Dass in his Franklin NH retreat.  Taking Ram Dass' story 
(especially the stories not to get sidetracked, the "psst in the alleyway" 
story), experience and practice to heart, I went off to practice in a 
Carmelite Monastery, where they let me come in for nearly half a year.  Yogi 
Bhajan gave me some instructions, which I took and went off to a small 
village in France where I practiced the sets and kriyas he taught me, and 
the experience described in the previous postings began to happen.  I wrote 
him a letter about this opening of the Hrdayam, and he wrote back to go to 
his London Center.  Over the course of the next 3 years I spent several 
months in 3ho centers in Washington DC, Phoenix, Tucson, Pumona and LA, and 
later went to join my family in the northeast US.
 
This experience has continued to deepen over the years regardless of the 
activities one is obliged to live.  Whenever some new experience would 
emerge and I would write Yogi Bhajan, he would always write back with words 
of encouragement.  There are probably innumerable people like me that had 
the opportunity at some point in their lives to learn this yoga and kept up 
the practice and gained this experience for themselves.  While this 
experience is recorded in all the religions, the practice of this yoga 
results in actually "hearing" their teachings.  Then something truly 
extraordinary happens.
 
Regarding good stories, while the one you mention about Yogi Bhajan is 
interesting, I think that Lord Bullwer-Lytton's Rosicrucian Story "Zanoni" 
is much more intriguing, and hope one day someone makes a great movie from 
it.  My mother had a copy of it given to her by her Great Uncle, when she 
was 16 in the Netherlands, and I found it in the archives of a City Library 
when I was 16, an original copy from the 1845 printing sampled with the 
purchase date 1854.  I would urge everyone to get a copy and read it, maybe 
from www.amazon.com.  I think the Rosicrucian website may be www.amorc.com.
 
Pieter 
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" <MystressATnospamfire-serpent.com> 
To: "Pieter Schoonheim Samara" <pietersaATnospamloxinfo.co.th>; 
<K-list > 
Cc: "Kurt Keutzer" <keutzerATnospameecs.berkeley.edu> 
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 3:26 AM 
Subject: Re: [K-list] Pieter's response to Message 2 [yogapsychology] Digest 
Number 168
 
 At 01:04 PM 7/8/01, Pieter Schoonheim Samara wrote: 
Kundalini Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, engulfs all these systems. 
Yogi Bhajan's websites include www.3ho.org; www.kundaliniyoga.com. 
Another KY website in Thailand is www.kundalini-matashakti.com
 
Pieter
 
 Your posts are very interested, Pieter.. but it does seem that you are 
 spamming for Yogi Bhajan.. 
Someone wrote to me of him, recently..a curious tale that some may find 
 to be of interest.. food for thought.:
 
It came about when, after ascertaining that OKC bombing didn't occur the way 
the story is commonly told, someone wondered, So how the heck did these 
people get past the security?
 
Which opened up a whole new line of investigation.  Any time facts are 
hidden, there's a reason, and it was MOST difficult to find who the security 
firm was.  And even then, the firm had "evaporated" just weeks after the 
bombing.  But then one of the guys who has ** access found that the firm, 
TEG, out of New Mexico, was 
actually a subsidiary of a larger firm, AKAL, and that one is still 
around--and owned and operated by ::Guru Bhajan::!
 
 AKAL, and presumably the good guru, also have many many ties to BATF, FBI, 
and operations involving money laundering, arms smuggling and drug 
smuggling--even to the point of having a BATF agent testify on behalf of one 
of the members who got caught trying to smuggle grenade launchers.  The 
company, under that name and several others, is global--its tentacles 
stretch everywhere, and they do most of the "security" guarding for almost 
all the federal facilities right now.
 
It reminds me of some strange sci-fi story or something, it's so very weird. 
In fact, if I hadn't seen all the court documents, incorporation documents, 
and news articles, I would have said it was all just too woo-woo to be 
serious.  And it's definitely an equal-opportunity thing--we find ties to 
Republicans like James Baker and Secord, as well as ties to Clinton 
cronies--some of it even looks like it has Oliver North's touch, but so far 
we haven't found it.  Presidents might change, but the government remains 
the same.
 
 But Bhajan is in it deep (we turned up other black ops for this bunch too, 
but they don't concern me right now).  And you'd never know it from reading 
his 3HO websites, would you?  Peace and light and...what?  terrorism?  Just 
another cautionary tale for guru followers, any guru. 
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