---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
Edg, I just wanted to do a drive-by and say that I've been
appreciating your recent rants. They've been very honest and very real
and obviously far too real for many here.
I haven't bothered to chime in with, "Yeah, what he said..." yet, but
not because I haven't felt that. I just knew that the shaming thing
would start and I didn't want to be even a peripheral part of another
re-run of that silly soap opera, so I've been staying out of it.
But you're a writer and we all know how writers need occasional
feedback. So mine is "Good stuff. Keep it up, Bro."
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Seconded with gusto, I've always liked Edg's style and passion. It's
easy to forget that he lived it more than most of us and his opinions
carry weight for that reason alone.
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On 9/13/2014 6:54 AM, danfriedman2002 wrote:
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From what he's described, I don't think that I'd like living the
experience that Edg has experienced. Maybe he could have changed sumthin'?
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He should have known from his first TM meditation that a relaxation
technique wasn't going to make him or anyone else enlightened. It sounds
like he was practicing "guru yoga" instead of basic TM. If his story is
true, then he must not have been practicing basic TM 15-20 minutes a day.
One can only speculate what people close to him must have gone through.
It must have been really tough accepting that almost all of his money
and time went into supporting a cult. It makes you wonder where he got
all the money and how he could afford to send his kids to an expensive
private school like MSAE.
It just doesn't make any sense that a guy would be so susceptible to the
suggestions of others that he would put his whole family through hell
for decades just to satisfy his fantasy of being a snake-oil salesman.
Go figure.
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It's easy for certain others to try and dismiss it as "all his own
fault or taking it seriously" even though they take it seriously
themselves! Talk about cognitive dissonance in action! Falling down
the rabbit hole one more time...
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Sal, reading minds again? Wake up!
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :
What the hell don't we understand about "this isn't about us" ? ? ?
I'm not even a messenger; just a kibitzer in the crowd, and some of
you want me shamed outta here or whatever -- how rare is the truth
sought here when all of us are so vulnerable to being correctly
dismissed as damaged goods? See someone's flaws and have at it hoss
-- but don't call your lust to thrust a personality dynamic of a
"knower of reality." Geeze, learn a lesson from Maharishi here...at
least he knew how to handle hostility coming from someone on the mike
-- almost always graciously....(I can think of a couple exceptions,
but . . . )
It's not important if anyone here approves of any statement, or not.
What's important is that THIS RECORD of the minds of a few survivors
of the TMO be at least registered here.
Over the years here, although I've changed my mind, yes I have, due to
some of the arguments here, let's face it, this place is not about
attempting to formulate statements upon which we all can agree.
Instead, we get so much head bashing. Let this be on the record too
sayeth moi -- let the whole messy-ness of it, the soul swampy steam
coming off of it, let it all be recorded here.
If I am a miscreant out to propagandize to a few minds here -- let it
be recorded.
This...all of this....done by true believers lo these many decades.
Hey it's sci-fi now but an actuality that's coming soon enough is that
there's going to be a tech that will make use of all this jabbering of
ours -- and who the fuck knows what wisdom can be mined herein by some
A.I. engine around the corner, eh?
Some sooperdooper A.I. that would rule the world would at least be
able to buddy up with the likes of the sorry spiritual drunks almost
passed out in the corners of Rick's Place. We'd be on our knees
e-praying in about ten minutes flat once an A.I. god told us we were
"special."
Who can't be easily pegged by their postings here?
Everyone's put out all this data about themselves without even
thinking twice about how it could all be put into a dossier with which
A.I. can grok a person 100%.
Or the NSA. No diff.
I just wanted to and will continue to lay out my POV -- 29 years
before the mast and the ship went down.
And my story is true for about 95% of all the folks that once invested
in the technique -- it just didn't pan out.
It's not about me; it's about all the other me-types -- the
universal-anyone-who-can-think-a-thought-can-do-it technique simply
had no pizzazz and the audience evaporated.
Ta ta and thanks for all the.........you thought I'd say "fish,"
right? You're mind readers! ! ! ! !
