--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" > <willytex@> wrote: > > > > TurquoiseB wrote: > > > Something about this statement kept nagging > > > at me, and I couldn't figure out what it was > > > until now. > > > > > > It's that it displays an absolute ignorance > > > of the nature of cults. A cult wouldn't HAVE > > > to require a follower to attend one of its > > > functions. A cult's control over its followers > > > is such that they would WANT to attend, and > > > believe that wanting to was their own idea. > > > > "Lenz has claimed to be one of only twelve truly > > enlightened people on Earth. The enlightened > > twelve also, he claimed, included his dog Vayu." > > An enlightened dog! Cool! > > But could could Vayu levitate?
Not that I ever witnessed. :-) But Vayu was a pretty cool dog. Lenz had a somewhat odd relationship with him (he sup- posedly was very depressed when Vayu died, and he himself died wearing Vayu's collar as a kind of tribute to his good -- and some would say only -- friend), but he was really a neat dog. Black Scottie, with all of the wonderful and not-so-wonderful traits of a Scottie. *Very* independent, not in the least clingy or over- dependent on his "human pet" (Lenz) for company or attention. I personally suspect that Lenz's rating of Vayu as enlightened was as questionable as his rating of himself in that category, but he was a cool dog, and a very sensitive per- ceiver. I remember one night in a lecture, Vayu was running around the lecture hall while Lenz talked, and a number of people were stand- ing up in a line at the front of the room as he talked to them about some things. One fellow, who hadn't eaten all day, suddenly felt faint and keeled over without a sound. Vayu was in the back of the room, as a matter of fact hav- ing his ears scritched by me, and was facing in the other direction. *As the guy was still falling*, before he hit the ground, Vayu whipped his head around and started running for the front of the room. He got to the fellow who had fainted and "stood guard" over him until one of the doctors helped him to revive. Neat thing to see. > My dog has mastered the sidhi of getting people to > do her bidding merely by moving her eyebrows. One of mine performs that siddhi by lifting his ears and training his big Grommit-like eyes on you. The other "noses" me until I give in. :-) > Luckily, her desires are fully in accord with Natural > Law and they rarely amount to more than a biscuit or > walk in the park. Yeah, they are really simple creatures to please, aren't they? I have learned a great deal about life from my dogs. I suspect that Lenz did as well.
