--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had a number of heated debates with Charlie devotees. Most of them didn't > seem to care whether or not Charlie was representing Maharishi's teachings. > They considered Charlie to be a member of the White Brotherhood and in an > exalted state of consciousness with direct cognitive or intuitive access to > the things he was saying. I think Charlie tried to give them this > impression. I always argued that he was merely parroting things he had read > in esoteric books, but they didn't buy it. I remember one guy arguing that > Charlie was undoubtedly enlightened "because he had been meditating 15 > years."
I think your comment has some merit, vis-a-vis how 'others' saw Charlie, I've met a few myself, but that's them, not him. Charlie was not a perfect being..he had flaws, so who doesn't? He was MMY's biggest Champion, IMO.
