--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Looking at Maharishi as an enlightened guy > who knew what he was doing lends itself to your interpretation. > In my view of him as a guy who was completely winging it, and > who created a situation where every whim was catered to, it > comes out differently.
Not sure why being enlightened and winging it are necessarily mutually exclusive. Also, there's his story of how Guru Dev would do the same thing to him, so maybe he thought if it had benefited him, it would also benefit his close followers. > I find my own comfort in thinking about him as a guy who, > like a lot of hight achievers, had a bit of ADD. Why do you find comfort in diagnosing him with all sorts of DSM-IV disorders? The DSM diagnoses, remember, are for the guidance of therapists who are working with patients who can't cope, based on the characteristics found in thousands of past patients who couldn't cope.
