--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > > Trivedi was up visiting on campus this morning and they hooked > > > him up to Fred Travis' equipment. Fred confirmed Trivedi is > > > functioning at a very high level. > > > > > > A Coup of TM-movement. > > > > = shaktipat > > > > measured by the researchers up on campus and fred travis said > > "he had never seen anything like this" as he measured trivedi > > giving "blessings" to people. > > > > Somebody by e-mail on the side saying: > > "...in my experience it was pretty astonishing level of shaktipat > > (what he calls a "blessing)." > > Am I alone here in seeing this fascination with a > traveling scam artist who can generate a little > shakti as a sign of desperation?
You may or may not be alone, but you sure are reading a whole lot into it, aren't you? Looks to me a lot more like a sign of curiosity as to what's going on in Fairfield. > I mean, isn't it a sad commentary on the 40-year > history of the TM movement that after all this > time the few lingering True Believers get all > excited by 1) an experience that is considered > elementary in most other spiritual traditions, > and 2) still Somebody Else's Experience. > > All these years, all these decades, and people > are still getting their spiritual jollies *second > hand*. Actually, I find the seeming compulsion of the True Nonbelievers to denigrate not only whatever it is Trivedi is doing and how Fairfielders are experiencing it, but also the interest FFLers are taking in it, considerably more fascinating and revealing. It can't be allowed to just be what it is, it seems; it has to be portrayed in a negative light. That's apparently how the True Nonbelievers get *their* jollies (even the self-styled Tantrics). Which means they're getting theirs *third*-hand. <snicker>
