/By my count, based on his online posted biography, Barry has spent
thousands of dollars and decades of time working to promote or debunk
various spiritual groups and individuals. At one point he was
apparently a group leader of some repute and well known in cult
circles around Portland, Oregon and Sante Fe, NM. His photo was once
featured on the front page of a TMO publication about "Governors of
the Age of Enlightenment" //and he has written a book about witnessing
the Zen Master Rama levitate. Go figure.
//
//At some point he became a True Believer but then later, he got
turned and did a 180 and went over to being anti-cult, probably
working as a reporter for CAN.//
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_Awareness_Network
//
//We are not sure exactly how time he spent or how much money he was
able to skim, or what happened to all the money. He doesn't seem to
want to talk about it, probably due to the extreme cognitive
dissonance. //Whatever, //it may make a good article for a science or
psychology magazine article on trance-induction states and mind-control. /
/>
/On 10/1/2014 9:43 AM, danfriedman2002 wrote:
>
Does my wild-ass guess that Judy is penning such article hold water?
You all know her better than I, but I got the sense that her logical
approach was meant to help Turq contain his wildness.
>
/Yes - I think she did try to help him - she did her part trying to keep
the discussion going. /
>
Am I right about this?
>
/Anyone can pose here as anything they want to pretend to be - by their
words we shall know them. Sometimes though, when people pose as
"athiests" they leave out the most interesting aspects of the spiritual
quest - it's more like a thought-stopper than a discussion statement.
The problem in a discussion is *elitism* - projecting an image based on
class and privilage. And, some people want to take over your mind and
make you doubt yourself.
Everyone believes in something. Sam Harris studied and practiced Tantric
Buddhism under a Tibetan lama. Go figure.
Just think - the words you post to the internet are as close to immortal
as most people will ever get, not counting their gravestone. ///Or, at
least until the Yahoo server goes down. Y/ou get much more fame here
than with Warhol's fifteen minutes. /
