How would you even know, Barry? You have, by your own admission, no established silence in your daily activity - no enlightenment. This is the kind of thing that embarrasses others, watching you, an ex-TM teacher, with no clue about his, or any one else's liberation, pronouncing opinions and beliefs, based on nothing.
Ego is not enlightenment, and whoever taught you that it is, is mistaken. ---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote : From: "dhamiltony2k5@... [FairfieldLife]" <[email protected]> It would be nice to learn where Sam Harris in experience is in effect with this scale as he is becoming a famous talking head in culture. Some people evidently can become cultural gurus just by virtue of their intellectual understandings even without experience. It would indeed, especially compared to many on this forum who have been practicing TM for decades, and who never shirk from jumping in to discussions to assert exactly what enlightenment is and is not, all without ever having experienced it, even briefly. I have to assume that Sam, whatever his experiences have been, would be somewhat more humble about the whole thing...
