On 10/18/2014 9:13 AM, TurquoiseBee [email protected] [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
Somewhat more believable, actually.
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/It's beginning to look like we have another case of cognitive
dissonance - Michael confronted by the reality that his hero Barry is
nothing but another cult informant. This is really going to confuse MJ -
because if what these two guys have been saying is t//rue//, then they
are themselves two of the most screwed up individuals on the entire
planet. Almost a total mix-up confabulation session!
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One could easily produce depositions from hundreds of people over the
years who saw Freddie levitate.
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/It should be noted that nowhere in any of his writings or lecture
videos does Frederick Lenz claim to be able to levitate himself up off
of a sofa.
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Possibly a couple of thousand of them, total.
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/Apparently Barry got real mixed up and went over to being a True
Believer, imagining that Lenz was God Vishnu. Barry used to print up
posters and tack them up all over L.A. with photos of Lenz with titles
like: "This man can turn a room GOLD in 60 seconds." Apparently that's
what got Barry kicked out of the cult - making up fabricated stories
about Lenz having para-normal powers. In many cases it's the followers
that make the teacher seem like a fool. Case in point.
//"I am enlightened in the classic sense," Lenz says, but insists, "It's
not a big deal. This is not having godlike qualities." - Fredrick Lenz//
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Has the TMO produced even *one* person who claims on the record to
have seen Maharishi or anyone else levitate (for real, that is...say,
hanging in the air for several *minutes* without descending, not
seconds)? They have not.
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/In fact, Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. was a really smart guy - a
senior systems architect in computer science. He would probably have
been the first one to deny that learning computer science would produce
the ability for anyone to levitate or vice-versa./
Work cited:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Lenz#Books
The Washington Post, January 11, 1996, Thursday, Final Edition
