--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote:
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> On Dec 19, 2011, at 12:15 PM, turquoiseb wrote:
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> > Is it the same thing, or something different? Beats me?
> > I am no neuroscientist, or even a trained behavioral
> > scientist. All I know is that if some of the states
> > that we commonly see "awakened" people go through are
> > (as we suspect) a little more than "eccentric," it's a
> > situation that is made more serious by total belief in
> > the sanctity and "truth" of subjective experience.
>
> What's amazing to me is to have witnessed the machinations of a so-
> called "enlightened man" in 1983 and to find no discernible
> difference between 1983 and 2011 - except I have a better
> understanding now of mental illness, back then it was just the
> intuition that 'something's not right here'. Of course once everyone
> saw the videos of "the enlightened man" beating one of his students,
> on official video, on the stage - that was the last straw. The
> emperor of ice cream melted.
>
> >
Steve perino says "the last I heard of Robin Carlsen ..his family committed him
to a mental health facility..Oh well I've headr worse things about
Robin..apprently from others Robin had a bad temper"