On Feb 13, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Rick Archer wrote: >> i was on a residence course with john black in california circa early 90's >> when one morning i arrived fifteen minutes late for the meeting. black >> exonerated me for my lack of punctuality and questioned my deserve-ability >> as a student of tm. my excuse for being late was being in a dream that >> morning that involved a wonderful winged snake flying up my spine to the >> center of the universe with my awareness in it. black screamed at me and >> said we never discuss the details of un-stressing in the tm movement in a >> group of people. i told him the dream wasn't stressful, i liked the dream. >> to my credit patanjali in yoga sutras states that dream analysis is a >> technique for enlightenment. sorry i don't have the reference but it's easy >> to find yourself online. anyway john black was a major douche bag. > > > Sorry to hear John behaved so rudely. In my experience with him he was always > a sweetheart. But definitely a partaker of the Kool-Aid libations, as he > plunked down a million bucks for a crown, and a name change to John Bright.
How idiotic, the whole thing, esp the silly name-change. Gosh, if we weren't talking about some "enlightened" being here, I'd almost say there's some subtle bigotry going on. And I think the word he meant to use is 'excoriated', not exonerated. Sal
