---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <steve.sundur@...> wrote :
Dang Dan, Yo Steve, This Jewish new year is bringing out the wisdom from you! Good New Year (the saying has been revised from "Happy New Year" to reflect the very real possibility that the upcoming year may not, in fact, be very happy. But it will be good, as in progressive and important. Steve, Fellow Tribesman We are all One, just different. Dearest Ann, Again you raise a very interesting question, with great sincerity. I believe, and this is just me observing only words on paper (or is it bits on clouds?) that Barry, but not only Barry, has had experience with the Transcendent enough for him not to dismiss them. Thus he's lived Them, but also lived without Them. An analogy would be Purgatory here on Earth. But I also feel that, human life being what it is, one who is not conflicted - spiritually or otherwise - has either already "arrived" or not yet confronted his demons. As for all this "pity", it may be well-meaning, conjured up, or misplaced. That's for others to say. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : From: "Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Benjy, Marshy - two hucksters and Nappy, one brain addled sycophant. Barry, can I just rely on Michael's synopsis to capture the essence of your remarks? While I cannot disagree, I think it is useful every so often to remember that at one point WE were sycophants, too. So what was "in it" for the sycophant? I think that the thing that is "in it" for the sycophant is self importance. If the teacher in question is telling them that they are the most important people on the planet, and so important that every thud of their butt on the foam sends forth Wondrous Waves Of Woo Woo to transform the universe into a better place, some people are actually going to buy that. For a while. It's just that *still* believing it all these decades later strikes me as a bit much to ask. :-) Personally, I think that one of the most useful pieces of neuroscience would be a study that managed to visualize in the brain the exact moment in which someone decides "This guy is enlightened and telling me the truth and therefore everything he ever says from now on will be truth." If we knew what that looked like on the level of brain chemistry, we might someday be able to prevent it. :-)
