Ok, I believe he (Ravi) is of Indian descent. He claims that although he embraces, or at least is comfortable with "liberal" western values, that his wife is traditional in her values, and that she wants her husband to be her guru as well. Maybe it is all good. But it doesn't sound quite right to me. My connection between this situation, and off shore drilling, was that there seemed to be a big pile on, in the sense that members of the group were echoing one another that the BP disaster should make it clear that all off shore drilling should be banned, and then while we're at it, lets ban any more nuclear plants.
Now, rightly or wrongly, I figure that people who espouse those sentiments are also likely to be vocal about women's rights, and it seemed that no one cared to challenge Ravi about his decision to ban his wife from participating in anything to do with Amma, and that going forward he was to occupy that role. --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > -- In [email protected], "lurkernomore20002000" steve.sundur@ wrote: > > > <snip> > > But over the last day or so, there have been many posts > > castigating off shore drilling, nuclear power plants, and > > other sentiments along those lines. But they have a guy, > > named Ravi, who is evidnetly having experiences of higher > > states of conscioussness. And, as best I can understand, > > because of this, he feels he must assume the role as his > > wife's guru. She, as best I can understand has been a > > devotee of Amma, but he has gone so far as to make her > > repeat 3 times, that she denounces Amma, and accepts him > > as her only legitimate Guru. And he claims he is doing > > all this for her own good. There are some other nuances > > along these lines, but that is the just, as best I > > understand. > > > > And the response from the other participants? Silence. > > Silence. To me, I see some hypocrisy, and maybe cowardice. > > For the record, only our torch bearer, Rick Archer seems > > to have had the fortitude to question him about this > > attitude. > > Yow. From your description, it sounds like some kind of > intervention is needed, fast (not online, in person). > > (Is there some connection between this and the denunciations > of offshore drilling etc.?) >
