--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <authfriend@> wrote: > > > > > He now thinks enlightenment generally is a sort of > > > cosmic trick furthered by intelligences that do not > > > have the best interests of human beings at heart. > > > > In other words he's raving mad. > > As much as I appreciated the fellows sensitivity, graciousness > and ability to write poetically something obviously went very > wrong. To me it seemed he was trying to force Maharishi into > acknowledge his enlightenment, which I personally don't think > was a very wise thing to do.
That's exactly what he did, but it was back in *1983*, and he realizes now it wasn't a very wise thing to do. On the other hand, at the time he had reason to believe that Maharishi supported him totallly, and he was flabbergasted and distressed by Maharishi's response to his demand that Maharishi certify his enlightenment, which was recorded and played in court when MIU sued him. Again, he's described all this in his posts. > Someone here, Dr.D ?, suggested he should have waited for > awhile, stopped and see how things develop, which would have > been a wise thing to do. Instead he rushed away proclaiming > all kinds of stuff to people hungry for someone to talk to. That's yet another absurd characterization. He didn't "rush away." He stayed for the rest of the course he was on and then went home. There was no way he could keep it a secret that he had become enlightened; Maharishi had asked him to talk about it to the course participants, and of course the word got around. The teachers at his local TM center were understandably eager to learn whatever one of their own who had "made it" had to say. It was like having access to a second Maharishi. His experience of Unity consciousness remained perfectly stable; he had no reason to think he needed to do anything but continue to act in his enlightened state. And besides, as Rory notes and Robin has said here many times, he was not acting based on his own will; that was gone. It had to crash. > This story could probably be an interesting movie though :-) >
