--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > I think that such posts are valuable in that > they point out something that many of us who > have distanced ourselves from MMY and the TMO > sometimes forget -- the level of dependence > on him and his "guidance" that some TBs still > feel. It's a really big deal for such people > when the teacher who's basically told them > what to do and what to think for 30 years is > about to quit the scene. > > I've seen it before, with the Rama trip. I > walked away from that trip a couple of years > before Rama walked away from living, but boy! > it was rough watching some of those who hung > in till the end go through dealing with his > death. It took many of them ten years to be > able to live life on their own, *without* > being told what to do. Some never even tried, > and dived straight from the Rama trip into > the "guiding hands" of another guru. A few > took what they'd learned and developed lives > of their own. > > All I can say is that as drama goes, watching > a spiritual movement when its leader dies is > right up there with Shakespeare. Some of it > is tragedy, some comedy, but it's all extreme, > and these impassioned posts we're seeing for- > warded here are just the beginning.
And just think, what a wonderful opportunity these posts provide to some here to congratulate themselves on how much more *evolved* they are than the writers.
