--- In [email protected], "Llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If the Kaplans had continued to practice TM, like you do, despite > whatever disaffection they had with anybody in the movement, > including MMY, and if they were not making the insane claims about > vampirism that they do...
Also, Bob, just FYI, the idea of spiritual teachers feeding off of the energy of their students is not an idea that is new or limited to the Kaplans. I don't remember exactly, but I have a faint memory that in the original Kaplan letter this idea was suggested to them by someone from another tradition. This post is just to let you know that there *are* such teachings out there in other traditions. Some tantric traditions are very hip to the "exchange of energies" between individuals, and also hip to the fact that some- one who knows how can artificially add to their own kundalini or life energy by getting people to focus on them, and then sorta sucking the energy from that focused attention. In the case of Maharishi, I don't have an opinon on the issue one way or another. But I can tell you that I first heard this theory about him well over 20 years ago, from several teachers of other traditions. They listed a number of teachers whom they thought were indulging in this practice, Maharishi among them. And although I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, and still don't because I'd rather focus on more positive things, it was interesting in that the teachers they named were *not* all famous and/or wealthy, so the comments didn't strike me as coming from any teacher-vs-teacher jealousy or envy. In fact, these teachers listed some *very* famous and/or well-to-do spiritual teachers whom they felt were *not* doing this. So this is just more information to feed into the olde brain computer. It's not meant to persuade you or sell you any particular point of view, merely to let you know that the beliefs that the Kaplans are giving voice to are hardly new and hardly unique, and that the phen- omenon itself has been known and talked about in spiritual traditions for thousands of years. Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
