--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Richard J. Williams" > <willytex@> wrote: > > > > > > > Amazingly cool, I guess, if that's what you want > > > > > out of life is to nitpick with Judy and Rory > > > > > about how Freddy levitated and then flew through > > > > > the air. > > > > > > > > > Point of clarification, Richard -- I never met > > > > Frederick Lenz and have no opinion on whether or > > > > how he levitated etc. > > > > > > jstein wrote: > > > Ditto here. > > > > "No, Barry, that's your *fantasy*, the reality you > > construct for yourself. Awfully petty and small-minded > > compared to the reality of developing one's consciousness > > (and possibly that of the world)--even if *that* turns > > out to have been an illusion as well." - Judy Stein > > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/143436 > > As you know, Willytex, what I was calling Barry's > fantasy was *not* that Lenz had levitated. Liar > that you are, you omitted the context to make it > seem that I had. > > Here's what I was responding to from Barry: > > > Even if it was an illusion, I've seen it and you > > haven't. And that's what you're pissed off about.
And no, Judy's not the *least* bit pissed off, certainly not enough to go over the 35-post-per- week limit *yet again*. :-) While she can make any statement she wishes about her motivations here, I'm just suggesting that folks look into the one that she never seems to recognize in herself -- jealousy. 30+ years "developing her consciousness" on a path that has brought her no closer to certain spiritual phenomena (levitation, enlightenment, etc.) than reading about them and arguing endlessly about them, as if her reading and watching videos of other people *talking* about them had rendered her some kind of expert. Does that sound familiar, somewhat akin to dumping on a film because someone else dumps on it, without ever having seen it herself? In other spiritual trips, we refer to such a path as "armchair spirituality." It's fine, I guess, if what you want is to read about or hear about other people's experiences. If one reads *enough* about them, one can even appear somewhat knowledgeable. But the bottom line -- the one that many people forget to ask -- is, "Have you ever experienced these things yourself, or are you talking so auth- oritatively based only on things you've read about or been told about?" I'd suggest that if Judy wants to make a case for the value of "developing one's consciousness" via TM and the TM-siddhi programs she *demonstrate* a bit of that developed consciousness in her posts. Spending 60-70% of her time arguing with and put- ting down those who don't agree with her "expertise," often when they've experienced the thing (or film) under discussion and she hasn't, doesn't really strike me as terribly "developed." But maybe that's just me...
