--- In [email protected], iranitea <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Robert" <babajii_99@> wrote: > > > > One of the 'Downfalls' of the path to Enlightenment... > > Is that the ego, in it's last desperate attempt to remain > > control, gets completely out of hand, and the individual > > can fall to the 'Dark Side' attacking others, and bringing > > a lot of negagive attention to oneself...I assume this is > > what happened to Carlson... > > > > The ego must be continually subdued, as the power of the > > enlightened individual can become dangerous if it is not > > tempered with a deep reverence of one's teacher and one's > > purpose on earth... > > Bingo! I think, an opening is being created, and a lot of > astral beings come in through it, the one's Carlsen thought > to be the 'vedic gods'. These beings can look very powerful > to the ordinary human. They sort of start playing football > with you, empower you, just to let you fall in the end. A > strong ego and an over eagerness to get/be enlightened, > not checked properly by a master, is the sure source of a > downfall.
With all due respect, I see any attempt to blame bad behavior and bad decisions on "entities" or the "Dark Side" or "astral beings" or being "possessed" as just the person in question being unwilling to take respon- sibility for being either crazy, or an asshole, or both. "Crazy" is a simpler, and thus more likely, explanation. Feeling as if one is not the author of one's actions? Nothing but psychological dissociation. Hearing voices or feeling as if one is being guided? Even more crazy. Treating people badly? Being an asshole.
