--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Janet Luise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > Can I ask a question? I don't know you from Adam, > > but you've been coming across a tad...uh...cultlike > > about this Tom fellow. And the website you pointed > > us to has a vibe that's more than a little icky IMO. > > How much money have you...uh..."contributed" to > > this Core Spirituality Institute? > > Tom has been my life partner for going on 25 years now. > He was chosen 2 years in a row as the students favorite > faculty member - teaching philosophy & film at MIU in > th early 80's. > > For sure I'm his biggest cheerleader and I've contributed > my lifewith no regrets.
Ok, that explains the enthusiasm; my apologies. > Who self publishes & ask for donations? A sanyansin, who else. > Tom writes for himself and the few people that can grok it. This I can grok. > He's actually dumbed this down quite a bit. This I can't. If you feel that you have to "dumb down" your book or your movie or your TV show, then you believe that your audience is dumb and you are not. Bad place to start. <snip> > I don't actually remember you as a personality but I guess we played > hooky together one afternoon at the first Squaw Valley course '68, > going to Tahoe in someones van. My roommate at the Christmas '67 > Asilomar Course was a very shy girl named Karen Tjsomethingnagel, > you eventual x-wife i guess. > > Quite a suprise to come back to the US in 75 > and see the flashy Karen Wright, Registrar at miu. I love that: "my eventual ex-wife." Difficult for me to identify with the idea of her as either shy or flashy. Anyway, sorry for the misunderstanding. I misinterpreted your obvious enthusiasm for the book as a different kind of enthusiasm. And for what it's worth, the lack of appeal of the book for me probably has a lot to do with the fact that I have no more "feel" or love for or sense of identification with Jesus than I do yer average guy on the street. The magic of his story for me is his humanity and his ordinariness. Anything that tries to portray him as special or an avatar is just going to set off my yawn reflex right from the start. Different strokes for different folks, and all that...
