How do you interpret my words "way off track," Lawson? Do you even read what I write in my posts?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote : You think that buzzing the Dome in helicopters and dropping leaflets on people wasn't a bit off? You think that convincing a lawyer to violate laws (which was mentioned in the court proceedings) wasn't a bit off? Robin was clearly unbalanced at that point, which goes along with my analysis that whatever was going on his head involved large amounts of unstressing. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote : I don't know the story behind Robin's adding to the sutras, so I can't comment on what he intended. At the time, he obviously thought Maharishi would approve, or he wouldn't have demanded that he validate it for the court case. According to Robin, Maharishi's denial, without explanation, in his recorded deposition came as a complete, shocking surprise. No, I don't think "co-opt Maharishi's position AS teacher" is a better way of putting it. As far as I'm aware, the sutra additions were the only thing that could be described that way, and as I say, he assumed Maharishi would approve, and gave up without argument when he didn't. I have no idea what was going on in his mind at that point; obviously it was way off track. But then remember his experience was that he was acting not of his own free will but at the behest of cosmic forces (which he decided much later were not benign). ---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. 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...."
