--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote: > > Just weighing in on the interview, I just watched most of it. > Funny how the metaphor for Rick looking so clear in the video > and him being fuzzy kind of expressed how I felt a lot of the > time.
Bingo. > I am left with the impression that these guys require you to > meet them a bit more than half way on the assumptions train. Bingo again. > And he is perpetuating the assumptions his own teacher ran > on him which he bought into. The big elephant in the room > is the question of why we should confer on this guy any more > or less of a status of knowing more about reality or truth > than we already to in order to place ourselves into the > relationship with him as teacher which he is inviting us to > assume. That's part of what struck me about martyboi's story of the restaurant encounter. We'll never know what was going through his head, of course, but if *he* was thinking that his smile was a "gift," it might have been an unwanted one. > Interestingly enough this is precisely the conditions of > conferring authority on someone else that oils the wheels > for a hypnotic session. Not to say he is hypnotizing his > audience in some sideshow obvious way. But his language > is the language analyzed in NLP as hypnotic in nature in > that it invites the listener to take the rather vague non > sensory phrases, and find something in themselves that > fits or makes sense. I agree. Interestingly, for me, his rap in satsangs and in these interviews would probably not work on those who hadn't paid their dues for years listening to similar cadences and suggestions. > The difference from this and poetry which uses some of > the same linguistic patterns is the context that he has > a deeper insight from the beginning than you do. And if > you are sort of unconfident about your view of reality > or are just unhappy with your internal state, this might > have more appeal than it had for me. I found little to > buy into about what he was talking about since I couldn't > find any evidence for his view of reality being an > improvement on my own. Bingo. Especially because he didn't seem to actually *interact* strongly with Rick. I got the feeling of "Every question is the perfect opportunity for the answer we have already prepared."
