---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote :
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <reverse_archery@...> wrote : From Jim: Thanks for clearing that up, Curtis. I apologize for assuming it was you. Whoever it was, I am glad they are gone, and given what you have to say below, please don't trip over yourself, trying to join The Peak. Perhaps you and Barry can start your own forum - Best of luck! Me: Could have been cleared up before the accusation was posted, but better late than never. You got your dig in on me even though it was manufactured, and now the retraction can be posted on page 17 near the garden club announcements. Oh well, Internet life.. Jim: Oh, its not all fluff over there. Here's a piece I wrote about Barry yesterday. Enjoy! "Ha! What nonsense from him. I remember about ten years ago, interacting with Barry, and he was a different person. But, when I recognized around that time, that my experience and my life were meeting the criteria for spiritual liberation, or enlightenment, and decided to come out of the closet about it on FFL, he kinda flipped out, and hasn’t been the same since. In evaluating what he has to say, regarding these endless rants against TM, it suddenly occurred to me that if I were to compare Barry’s REAL life, against mine and those in my social circle, he has accomplished very little. He strikes me as someone who has lived so much of his life in a spiritual cocoon, and wearing his ‘anti-cult’ glasses, now spreads the warning *of his own experience* tirelessly, not realizing that most of us, certainly everyone I know, has managed to simply elude the snares he rails against incessantly. His life’s reality, focused unerringly on turning others away from the spiritual dependency he lived for decades, is so tiny, so restricted, so unsuccessful, compared to the life I live, it becomes something very much about Barry, but with little relevance to me. He has made up his mind long ago about those who have faithfully practiced TM, and the notion that someone has accomplished the goal, in spite of his judgments and assumptions, drives him mad. It is just not at all my problem, and something he will have to resolve on his own. Or not. :-)"
