Comments interleaved below. > > Patrick Gillam wrote: > >> > >> Maybe Rick can find time to poll people who abstained > >> to get their perspectives on the experience. > > Rick Archer wrote: > > Anyone can start a poll, but I'm convinced that celibacy has been very good > for me. I think I needed it to compensate for my youthful excesses.
When I suggested you "poll people," Rick, I thought you might ask those friends who dabbled in celibacy what their thoughts are on the experience. You're a Connector in the Tipping Point sense of the word, and could probably gather a batch of interesting perspectives in the course of an afternoon of errand running. Getting other people's opinions doesn't address your core question below, but it does speak to the "rightness" of prescribing celibacy for people in their 20s. > [Maharishi's] response [to people who could have exposed him] was to banish > and discredit those responsible. Was that fair to them? Again, this is a testable proposition. I suspect most people are going to feel as you do -- that being banished was a good thing. Maybe not "fair," but ultimately good. We cannot explain MMY's motives and behaviors, but we can our own. And that may give us insights into MMY's. It's like when physicists can't examine some hidden aspect of creation, but they *can* measure its effects on the surrounding environment, and thereby get perspectives on the nature of the black hole or quantum field. (At least I think that's how science works.) - Patrick Gillam To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
