On May 30, 2010, at 7:26 PM, Sal Sunshine wrote: >> On May 30, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Rick Archer wrote: >> >>>> FW; >>>> "I knew Daniel well and have a little different take than some others. >>>> this is what my perception was knowing what was going on. Had I known the >>>> last 2 months he told so many people his pain was too great and he was >>>> thinking of killing himself I would have intervened strongly in some way. >>>> intervention may have helped but at the same time. a person has to be >>>> receptive and I don't know how receptive Daniel was. that advaita group >>>> all think they are beyond human help and looked to him as the mentor and >>>> teacher and he had no one." <end paste> >>> >>> >>> Whoever wrote this doesn't know what they're talking about. They may never >>> have been to the group, and you certainly haven't. We loved and respected >>> Dan, and he spoke with great clarity from a great depth, but the group in >>> general did not look to him as mentor and teacher, and he had people he >>> respected to whom he could talk as much as he wanted to. >> >> I sure hope not, Rick. There seems to be something >> profoundly odd about a group of middle-aged people >> looking to someone more than half their age as a >> "mentor and teacher," JMO.
And also along these lines, I found this link on Rick's chat group: http://rorygoff.com/open/the-observatory/dan-swartz/ featuring our very own Rory Goff, doing precisely what Rory does best--nothing. After listening to a few minutes of this, I began to wonder if maybe Dan died of boredom. Sal
