--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltabl...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > This post has some interesting insight. I think > Judy's description of her own motives seem accurate. > I know she also has a deep emotional investment in > Maharishi's world view,
Not his "world view" but his teaching on the nature and mechanics of consciousness (and it's much less "emotional" than intellectual and experiential). I *disagree* with a great deal of his world view (political, social, economic, behavioral, etc.). <snip> > Vaj really really believes in his POV about the > movement. (I do with my own too.) He sincerely > believes in the value of spiritual practices just > as Judy does, from his own experience and > interpretation of them. So both of you are deeply > committed for good reasons. The problem is that > they are in direct contradiction. There's one *huge* difference you're missing: I don't attack or belittle Vaj for his spiritual beliefs and practices or criticize his teachers. I'd appreciate it if you'd acknowledge this, Curtis. I understand that you'd like to equate Vaj and me in terms of our behavior so you can do your Dr. Phil number, but I really doubt Dr. Phil would overlook such a gaping discrepancy. If Vaj were simply touting his own beliefs, I would have little to say to him. He's entitled to them, as I am to mine. I was going to ask you as well to acknowledge that Barry quite deliberately misrepresented my post, as I pointed out in my reply to him, but I see you've decided not to risk your relationship with him by correcting what he wrote and have instead done a 180 on what you said in the post I'm responding to. You refer to your "blinders"--I gather they're what has allowed you to miss the irony of Barry's characterizations of my behavior and motives given his own long history of "personal invective and personal abuse of others," especially when you add in the component of the constant dishonesty in which that invective and abuse is couched (his post in question being an excellent example). I'm sorry to say none of this surprises me.
