Not having seen this guy (and with no desire ever to),
just following some of the discussions of him on FFL
and BATGAP, I'm curious as to whether anyone can explain
to me why they pay money to see him, or pay even more
money to talk to him in private or on the telephone.
Is it really just the "buzz?" Is buzznessitude both so
lacking in your life and so important to you that paying
a stranger for a hit of it is important enough *to* pay
them? I'm asking because, despite my joke about the
Buzzunit Rating System yesterday, I've been away from
the "Going to see a visiting teacher/saint/healer for
the buzz" thang for so long I don't really remember or
value the attraction of it. Can someone who still feels
that attraction explain it to me, and what the perceived
"payoff" is?
Also, I get the impression reading the things said about
this particular buzz-seller that he's a bit of a loose
cannon, and (based on the reports) can accurately be
assigned to the group of teachers some would call
"chronic abusers." In the sense of the classic child-
or spouse-abuse cycle (abuse and lash out, later apolo-
gize and get forgiven, abuse again, repeat) as opposed
to the "There is no spoon" abuse cycle (abuse, not only
never apologize but say it's the Self doing it so there
is no abuse).
Again, I've never seen the guy and will never, so I'm
asking those on FFL who have ponied up the cash to see
him to explain in more detail what it was like and what
they feel they got out of the experience. If you feel
like it. I think this would help me to balance some of
the things being said on BATGAP, where the general
tendency is to make excuses for the guy's outbursts,
from one point of making-excuses view or another. The
fact that many of the people (especially women) who
flocked to him as groupies in the beginning now can't
stand to be around him actually seems sometimes as if
it's being presented as the women's problem, not his.
I'm just fascinated by this tendency towards occasional
abuse in those who set themselves up as spiritual
teachers or shakti-sellers. I've seen it in action in
Rama - Frederick Lenz in its classic abuse cycle ("The
self made me do it") variant, and in Maharishi in a
different kind of abuse cycle ("The Self made me do
it"), but I keep seeing it.
So I'm wondering who here on FFL might have also seen
this tendency towards abuse and "acting out" in Trivedi,
what their "take" is on it (because on the whole I trust
the accuracy of the perceptions of people here more than
I do the people on BATGAP), and their take on "What's in
it for me" when they see him. Thanks in advance...
