---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote :
Well, perhaps you didn't see his behavior as co-opting Maharishi's teachings, but giving people advice on how to make TM-Sidhis practice better, certainly is the kind of thing that I would call "co-opting Maharishi's teaching." Notice I didnt' mean that he co-opted Maharishi's teachigns as his own, but that he decided he was competent enough to give advice and that it was appropriate for him to do so. Perhaps "co-opt Maharishi's position AS teacher" is a better way of putting it. I think to some degree you are correct in that he felt he could impart some of the techniques and add his own "spin" to them. He didn't get the siddhis until some of his TM teacher group "followers" taught them to him. At that point we all got his version of them even though must of us had the original siddhis taught to us via the normal channels. I believe his actions in this case were fueled by the sense that he could do no wrong created by his then current state (of enlightenment) coupled with a healthy dose of ego generated by the illusion created by his hallucinatory state. It is by his own admission that he felt his enlightenment to be a delusion, hallucinatory. L. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote : I wrote: Also, Robin had no intention of co-opting Maharishi's teaching, as I've already pointed out here recently (so has Ann, who was with him at MIU), and he did indeed ask for a formal nod from Maharishi as to his enlightenment and the changes he wanted to make to the movement. Maharishi, not surprisingly, refused to give permission, and Robin gave up. Add: "...refused to give permission or endorse his enlightenment...."
