You saw nothing, Vaj. Because you were not there. Not one person living will 
testify to your physical presence at one of those seminars. And you cannot 
furnish a single personalized and particular memory which would verify and 
substantiate this claim of yours. You are bearing false witness. What reason do 
I have to deny what is the truth? There must be 300 persons out there in the 
world who can present evidence of what happened in those seminars. But you 
can't, because you did not go through the experience. Sooner or later someone 
will speak up about their recollection of those days—and as soon as they do, I 
will immediately recognize they have provided the requisite evidence of the 
truthfulness of their testimony. This is a striptease you are performing, Vaj, 
but you see, you never actually take off any part of your clothes. Produce the 
goods, Vaj, because sooner or later someone else *will*, and then you will have 
nothing to say in this regard, because I will remember this person. And they 
will thus be accorded the authority that you can never acquire.

Believe me, Vaj, anyone who was there would never write in the way you have 
here. 

And finally: I have repudiated the entire principle and context at the basis of 
those seminars. I have renounced my enlightenment. And I have gone a very long 
ways towards atoning for whatever I did during those ten years for which I must 
held accountable. My personal culpability.

I must suppose you cannot help yourself in this, Vaj. But how I wish you would 
do something to dispel this perfect impression you give of the unbelievability 
of all of your claims: about TM, about Maharishi, and about myself.

When it comes to TM, Maharishi, and those seminars, second-hand knowledge just 
will not do. *You had to be there*. No one who went through that experience 
could, even if they tried, produce the lack of credibility that you do in 
everything you say about me, about TM, and about Maharishi.

But this is especially true of the seminars, because the experience there was 
unforgettable. Ineffaceable. A particular and concrete memory you have, Vaj: I 
would wish so much for you to give this to me. But alas, you cannot, and until 
you do I will just have to keep calling you out for what you are doing here at 
FFL.

Still, I appreciated those two posts of yours awhile back.



--- In [email protected], Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote:
>
> 
> On Jan 13, 2012, at 1:13 PM, maskedzebra wrote:
> 
> > Barry: Back in the Bad Old Days, RWC would drag his followers up
> > on stage and yell at them (and possibly even strike them),
> > "pointing out their weaknesses" and telling them exactly
> > what kinds of demons were possessing them.
> > 
> > Robin: This is a crude and misinformed and inaccurate description of what 
> > went on between 1976 and 1986. I never once struck someone on stage.
> 
> Well, that's not what I saw. I cannot say it is accurate that you were 
> "beating" them, but it would be accurate to say you were pounding them with 
> clenched fists as if in total exasperation and frustration.
> 
> > If you read Rory's account from his autobiography you get the very essence 
> > of metaphysical theatre that I acted out under my enlightenment. Although 
> > not nearly the whole picture. Someone who has a mature and unbiased 
> > perspective—who was there—will eventually speak out on this forum I hope, 
> > and then we can hear the other side, which will be critical, but will not 
> > resemble in the least the description given here.
> 
> I don't know what you'd want us to say? After all, it was not one of the 
> things you'd remember by your constant reflection on it. The people, now 
> that's something different, because there were (like old rounding courses, 
> etc.) a lot of remarkable humans.
> 
> > There are persons out there who know all about what happened. And I have 
> > already interrogated myself over this very serious matter these past 25 
> > years. And I haven't seen any demons for a few decades, Barry :-)—but 
> > perhaps now my streak will be broken.
> 
> Well if you haven't declared Our Dear Editor demonic by now, it's a given 
> that you're third eye blind. In the day I could see the brouhaha build as Our 
> Dear Judy was revealed as the very core of resistance to G_d and driven from 
> the course by protective students. Incense would be lit.
> 
> > You don't ever grasp a hold of reality when you argue like this, Barry. You 
> > systematically avoid contact with reality. And it shows. Not to Steve, but 
> > to a few others I would think. (I mean besides the horrible woman Judy—now 
> > talk about abuse: did you read some of her recent posts to me, Barry? Now 
> > *that's* what I call abuse.)
> 
> Robindra, by the Grace of G_d, open your third eye!
>


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