On 10/18/2014 3:36 PM, [email protected] [FairfieldLife] wrote:
yes, the Barster was holding back on us.
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He doesn't want to talk about it very much. Maybe the memories are just
too painful. Or, maybe he never really was in the inner circle of the
cult, just another student attending some computer training sessions.
Or, maybe he was one of the top cult leaders - maybe he still wants to
keep secrets concerning the special kundalini techniques he learned. Go
figure.
/"There was a real Nadia, although she was//
//German and the incident didn't really//
//happen to Rama. It happened to one of//
//his students, who told Rama about it and//
//was later rather surprised to see the whole//
//story in Snowboarding To Nirvana.//
//
//For the record, I thought that second book//
//sucked dead dogs, and the first, Surfing//
//The Himalayas, was awful compared to his//
//earlier writings (now almost all out of print).//
//There is a rumor, which I happen to believe,//
//that he didn't even write the second book,//
//but had it mainly ghost-written for him by//
//one of his students, and then just rewrote//
//and edited the result."/
Subject: Fwap!
Author: willytex
Group: alt.meditation.transcendental
Date: August 8, 2002
http://tinyurl.com/oqj67tb
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Claims to have left the Rama mindset, but was secretly promoting the
"pushing of buttons" agenda.
Aw, Barry, tsk, tsk tsk. You knew that truth was going to leak out.
But, Barry has become more like a door bell button pusher. Like
maybe some of us were, as children.
Push the door bell, then go and hide behind the bushes.
Provides a momentary thrill, but not much else.
Time to grow up!!
---In [email protected], <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote :
Yes, take a look at the book - It explains Barry's thinking quite
well. A good read, sorry I didn't see it sooner.
Freddie said he was the perfect mirror, and if you perceived something
negative in him, you were really seeing it in yourself. Sounds so much
like Bawee. Explains all the "golden light" and "levitation" crap, too.
---In [email protected], <steve.sundur@...> wrote :
Look, every body gets the "pushing of buttons". We all get ours
pushed sometimes, and we all do some pushing ourselves.
But, from what you've found below, it does it appear that Barry has
elevated this "pushing of buttons" to, well, some kind of religion.
And as in most religions, some things get distorted.
Helps to explain things, I think. (-:
---In [email protected], <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote :
If you want to know how Barry thinks, and how he got so screwed up,
there is a free ebook, from someone who was very close to Freddie. The
name of the book is: *TAKE ME FOR A RIDE Coming Of Age In A
Destructive Cult, **by Mark E. Laxer. *Available on the link that
Richard posted.
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Here are some quotes from the book. When I read them, they sounded
strangely familiar. Note: Freddie used to call himself, "Atmananada"
(Soul of Love), before he decided he was the final incarnation of
Vishnu. The guy sounds VERY CRAZY:
Atmanandaexposed his Big Nurse nature in other ways. He claimed,
for instance, that he had to "press all the right buttons"
to help people overcome their resistance to the Light and to him….
He taught me to fear what would happen if I left the Centre.
"You know too much to leave. It's a greedy, materialistic world
out there. Your soul would be miserable. Besides, the Forces would
flatten you like a bug. You would lose thousands of lifetimes
of evolution."
He taught me to fear, not just the Forces but people, particularly old
friends and family. "It's best if you don't tell them what we do here.
Believe me, they won't understand. They'll end up blocking your
progress and sapping your power.“…
=========================================================
"Atmananda," I suddenly announced. "I *saw* the Warriors."
Others in the circle soon *saw* them too.
Atmanandaheld desert trips once or twice a month and, by mid-1983,
followers *saw* him walking above the ground on a "cushion of light,"
flying to distant mountains, sending columns of light into the sky,
and causing constellations to gyrate and disappear.
On one starlit night, Atmanandaraised his hands above his head.
As he slowly lowered them, he made a low, whistling sound like
the wind.
"What did you *see*?" he asked afterward.
"I didn't *see* anything," one new follower bemoaned.
"Advanced psychic vision is necessary to perceive what I am doing…
==================================================================
"Are you Rama?" someone asked.
"Yes," he replied. "I am Rama, the last incarnation of Vishnu.
You people think that I am a person, but I am not. Over the years
I watched my various selves fade away. I fought the process tooth
and nail--like each of you are doing now. But it was in vain.
I could not stop the process of dissolution. I had to admit that I
was no longer a person. This morning I suddenly knew who I was.
I have been cycling...I am beginning to remember...Eternity
has named me Rama...Rama most clearly reflects my strand
of luminosity...We're at the end of a cycle...At this time,
Vishnu takes incarnation as a person...Vishnu is that aspect of God
that preserves and protects life...Rama...the last incarnation
of Vishnu..."
---In [email protected], <awoelflebater@...> wrote :
---In [email protected], <punditster@...> wrote :
On 10/17/2014 9:16 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@...
<mailto:turquoiseb@...> [FairfieldLife] wrote:
But to bring this whole diversion (for that is
what it is) back into the present, I really wish
that Richard, Jim, and a few others would leave
off this try-to-get-to-me-by-bringing-up-Rama
shit. It's old, and it's based on your *own* cult
thinking and how *your* minds work, not how mine
works.
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You need to get a grip, Barry - you just posted about
"Rama shit" a few months ago!
/"I've seen someone levitate. Many times. In many
settings, from the Los Angeles //
//Convention Center to the Anza-Borrego Desert to a
Denny's restaurant in the wee //
//hours of the night."/ - TurquoiseB
Subject: TM is a Cult?
Author: TurquoiseB
Group: Yahoo Fairfieldife
Date: Friday, 23 May 2014
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