--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" <whynotn...@...> wrote: > > My sense is that Vaj was not initiated into TM or learned > the TMSP.
And remember he also claims to have been a TM *teacher*. Several genuine TM teachers here and on alt.m.t have had a lot of trouble swallowing that one. > I can't put my finger on it, though there is something about > the way he writes about it all in a fragmented way, as > someone would looking at it from the outside, in. He doesn't > appear to write from experience, but rather the piecemeal > approach of someone relying on the abstract conclusions and > intellectual understanding of themselves and others. And he's gotten some things just grossly wrong, e.g., the notion that "waiting for the mantra" was an important aspect of TM, not to mention the confusion of fast pranayama with spontaneous bellows breathing in post #245240. > Vaj, care to comment please? If I am completely off here, so > be it - a blind man's perspective on the elephant... In the past, as I recall, he hasn't been responsive to questions attempting to establish his TM status. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" <rorygoff@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > >> If you've thought of another option, why don't you just say > > > what it is instead of pretending to want to know whether I > > > had another option in mind but somehow failed to mention it? > > > > > > (You might want to check out the earlier post I referred to > > > first, though. It's #245240, from back in April.) > > > > > You're right about that post, of course; Vaj is completely wrong there, in > > a way that certainly does cast some doubt on whether he ever actually > > practiced the flying technique. But here, I was thinking he simply may have > > misread Tart's meaning, as I myself did on first reading. > > > > And I didn't pretend to want to know whether you had another option already > > in mind but had somehow failed to mention it; I wanted to see if you could > > perhaps come up with another option on your own, one that didn't > > automatically cast Vaj as a liar. I am not saying he isn't one, you > > understand; I am just saying he might not be. He may just be suffering from > > unconscious blind-spots and shadow-projections, as are we all. > > >
