--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" <maskedzebra@...> wrote:
>
> The real turning point, however, raunchy, came when my best friend (although
> he was not at this time) demonstrated to me that my perception of a matter
> concerning myself was incorrect, and that his perception of me was the
> objective one. I had never experienced anything like this in my life: someone
> proving they knew me better than I knew myself. At that moment--even though I
> had begun to challenge my enlightenment intellectually and religiously (via
> Catholicism and the breakdown of the trustworthiness of my authority)--my
> inner and outer world literally collapsed. My enlightenment--which required
> that I was always in contact with more truth than anyone non-enlightened--was
> fundamentally refuted. The vertiginous experience of this was like nothing
> that had ever happened to me not just since my enlightenment, but even in the
> whole span of my life.
>
> My friend, who subsequently came to live with me (because of his remarkable
> and inspired insight into me), began a process of showing me how, in ten
> thousand different ways, I had got it all wrong, and this process of
> confrontation, analysis, revelation, humiliation, and treatment (I applied
> the treatment, the remedy myself: I 'operated' on myself) has continued over
> the course of the past twenty-five years.
>
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothing don't mean nothing honey if it ain't free, now now.
And feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues,
You know feeling good was good enough for me,
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXV_QjenbDw
