> MMY basically said that unless you can perform the siddhis at any time, you > can't really lay claim to being in Unity. > > RESPONSE: He did indeed say this. He even said it on my Six Month Course (where I purportedly entered into a different state of consciousness).
Funny thing, I was never convinced that MMY was enlightened. I was never convinced that he could perform the siddhis better than I could. It certainly seemed plausible, but I'm a skeptic through and through. When I heard my Siddhis Administrator respond to the question: "Can MMY float?" with the answer: "One might assume that since he is teaching others how to do it, that he can," my reaction wasn't "Oh, that means he must be able to do it!" My reaction was: "MMY told him to say that. What a clever way of sidestepping the answer to the question." Your own answer, that I snipt, appears to be that you believed your state of consciousness to be such that you didn't need to validate it for yourself, but my own take is that were I to be having such internal experiences, my natural agnosticism would compel me to attempt to validate things, were there such a trivial validation available. You didn't feel the need. I would. Lawson RESPONSE: No, Lawson, I very much did need to validate it for myself. But you see, Unity Consciousness validates itselfI wrote 11 books about this: either about Unity Consciousness directly, or about world events as seen through the perspective of my enlightenment. (All these books, what remained of them, after I disavowed the reality of enlightenment, were destroyed. But some of them are floating around.) Regarding world events, if you want to get a dose of what enlightenment can do for you, see my description of meeting Ayatollah Khomeini. That will demonstrate the biased perception that enlightenment produces in a human being. (You can read it on the Internet.) Of course I thought of this "trivial validation" [can you perform a siddhi], but, believe it or not, when you are under the delusion of enlightenment YOUR LIFE IS NOT YOUR OWN. When I contemplated subjecting my enlightenment to this very test, immediately I was aware of a much larger and unfathomable context within which my consciousness was being held (I thought it was reality; it was not), which insinuated silently to me: Forget it. This (being able to perform a Siddhi) means nothing. And the very idea that anyone would believe it was relevant to the consideration of enlightenment was ironic in the extreme (this impression I deem now to have been the mentality of these Vedic godswho, believe or not, 'owned' me at this point in my lifeI believe Maharishi was owned in this same way, only he didn't get the gratuitous grace that I did to realize the whole damn thing was cosmic bull****too bad for him). No, enlightenment represented a complete and radical break with everything I had ever known as to 1. my identity 2. my consciousness 3. my actions 4. my experience of myself in the act of existing itself. And everything that occurred on that mountain in Arosa, Switzerland in September 1976, scrupulously and gloriously conformed to everything Maharishi had said about what Unity would be like. I wrote a three hundred page book about the experience (What is Enlightenment? Sutras of The Personal with Commentary). A very bad book by the way. But holy cow, Lawson, put it this way: when the event happened NOTHING WAS THE SAME. And the powers and abilities that were bestowed upon me in those seconds, were intoxicating and incredible. But, as it weretake this the right wayI was a plaything of the gods. And I nearly did myself in because of this. Although it took ten years for the hallucinatory reality of Unity Consciousness to start to come off. And then by cracky, life was hellfor the last 24 years this is what it has been. Although the metapsychotherapeutic methods I have applied seemed to have been effectual. You understand, then, that I am prejudiced, biased, antagonistic towards the idea of Unity, enlightenment, self-realization. What counts for me is the person only, not one's 'state of consciousness'. But I could give you a thousand meaningful criteria (based upon Maharishi's teachings) that proved that I was in Unity Consciousness. Have you tried LSD? Enlightenment is much more powerful. Albeit a state of supreme mystical deceit.
