--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltabl...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > I'm not sure how anyone could distinguish the cause and effect > of an energy like "shakti." How anyone could say that the source > outside yourself was known. I am more inclined to believe that it > is self generated.
This is certainly possible. > My own "experience" of what I thought at the time was Maharishi's > "darshon" is probably my best reference. After a while it kind > of went away in India after seeing him day after day. But with > suggestibility heightened by long meditations we were all ripe > for generating all sorts of experiences. For the record, I never experienced *anything* I would ever call "shakti" or "darshan" from Maharishi. Not once in 14 years, including times when I was sitting a few feet from him. My experience with what I call shakti was only with other people. > What I see lacking in personal healer's presentations is a > genuinely honest attempt to test their claims. I completely agree. Most of them came out of "spir- itual" traditions in which one of the golden rules was "never question anything the teacher says." And as a result they think that when *they* claim things, people should just believe them, the same way they did. I think that this creates a lazy and essentially dis- honest approach to the things they say. There is no real *interest* in validating these claims, because the claimants perceive anyone who *doesn't* auto- matically believe their claims as "having something wrong with them." > Their utter contempt for skepticism and the right for customers > to see something that would reasonable support their claims > makes them seem dishonest to me. To me, too. Add to that taking a lot of money for something they refuse to prove, and it pretty much screams "Charlatan" to me. > Perhaps it is an entertainment expense for people. They get > their ticket and they get their ride. And everybody is happy > till the next MRI. That is exactly what I was getting at by comparing shakti to a hit on a crack pipe.
