--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Brahmanand Saraswati? > > > > > > > > Emphatically YES. And a yogi with ram (fire) siddhi (at very > > > > least). > > > > > > You wouldn't really know. Your information is only because you've > > > 'heard' about them. I knew Satyanand and I experience Swami > > > Brahmananda Saraswati practically daily. > > > > Not to argue but to reinforce my point in post #163860, > > John, aren't you assuming that your subject "experience" > > of Brahmananda Saraswati "trumps" anything that Vaj > > could possibly say, or that anyone else on *Earth* > > could possibly say? > > > > It's your experience; therefore it is true. > > > > Thank you for providing such a perfect example of that > > tenth criterion of Narcissistic Personality Disorder > > that I was talking about. > > Actually, you've got the context of what they're > arguing about wrong, because you're more interested > in dumping on John and preaching your standard > sermons than in understanding what they're saying. > > > ( For the record...what you experience COULD be true. > > I don't know. My only point is that you don't either. > > You only assume it's true because it's *your* subjective > > experience. That is almost the classic definition of > > narcissism. ) > > Uh, no, it isn't. > > But it's kind of fun to go back and look at > Barry's rants about how important it is to > trust your own experience. For example: > > "There are a few people here on FFL who have > had such subjective experiences, whether it be > of odd phenomena or their own subjective exper- > iences of higher states of consciousness. I like > dealing with them *because* I can identify with > the changes that their subjective experiences and > learning to trust them have put them through." > > And even funnier: > > "You'll notice that most of the people who *have* > had interesting experiences of higher states of > consciousness or of extraordinary phenomena > rarely, if ever, talk about them any more. Jim's > about the only one who dares to brave the boring, > terrified turd-throwers any more. Rory's silent, > Tom's mainly silent, and a few people have left > altogether. > > "The bottom line, as I see it, is that the wimps > have WON, *especially* after the migration of a > couple of compulsive-poster wimps from alt.m.t. > Those two, together with anon_couscous and a > few others who don't even have the balls to use > their own names here, have made Fairfield Life > a distinctly UNFRIENDLY environment in which to > talk about one's own spiritual experiences." > > One of the "compulsive-poster wimps from alt.m.t" > Barry was referring to just happened to be do.rflex > (John), the guy he's now dumping on because John > trusts his experience of Guru Dev.
Ironically, "compulsive-poster wimp from alt.m.t" describes Barry to a T.
