--- In [email protected], "Buck" <dhamiltony...@...> wrote:
>
> Geez, Trivedi did elaborate the prospect for conducting the 
> healing energy in nature as he spoke.  About the shaktipat 
> energy of the blessing he did not use the word "shaktipat", 
> he just referred to this 'energy'.  He placed it in nature.  
> 
> In discoursing he observed that like with electricity there 
> are conductors and non-conductors in nature.  With this healing 
> energy there evidently are good conductors, super-conductors, 
> semi-conductors and some non-conductors. Most people (20%) are 
> good conductors. About 5% are super-conductors. A tiny percentage 
> are non-conductors.  So people's experience with the blessing 
> will be different in degree.  In this case, the healing energy 
> in the blessing comes through him, people conduct it and not 
> everyone is a good conductor. skewed shaped curve trailing 
> off to the non-conductors. So some may not experience anything. 
> Matter of fact.  

Matter of bullshit.

> Trivedi went through this conductivity spread a few times in 
> his talks in FF like he was considering it while he was here.

Or like he was making it up while there.

Let's look at the scenario you outlined from a different
point of view, one a tad more skeptical, less pre-biased,
and less shill-like.

Con man breezes into a new town hoping to make some big 
bucks from Yet Another Group Of Seekers Who Have More Money 
Than Discrimination. He finds that this particular set of 
suckers...uh, I mean seekers worship pseudo-science, having 
been trained to do so for decades by Maharishi. What to do? 

Make up some pseudo-science, of course. First, make up 
something called "the healing energy in nature," something 
that no scientist in the world would recognize as a real 
thing. 

Then, springboard off of the concept you just made up *as 
if it were a given, something the existence of which can be 
assumed* (which it isn't, of course, but proceeding as if it 
*were* a given always works with suckers...uh, I mean seekers 
who are *looking to have what they want to believe confirmed*. 
Springboard off of it by postulating that this "healing energy" 
can be "conducted." Of course, only a few people on the planet 
(5%) are "super conductors" of the energy, like...uh...him.

Finally, having created an entire pseudo-science scenario out
of whole cloth, come up with a reason why some in the audience
may not feel anything from this oh-so-rare "super conductor."
Being stuck in the "non-conductor" group, they just aren't 
evolved enough to notice how profound this made-up energy is.

Harsh?

I don't think so. 

This is just my reading of the scenario minus Buck's attempt
to characterize it as "science," WHICH IT IS NOT.

Anyone can convince themselves of anything, and find some
way to rationalize even the most obvious con if they're 
desperate to do so. But it really takes a TMer to pretend
that the con is "science."


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