--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <j_alexander_stan...@...> wrote:
Thanks for the detailed report, I enjoyed that. > > Out of curiosity, I went to last night's event with Mahendra Kumar Trivedi. > He speaks English, but his accent is so thick that it was excruciatingly > fatiguing for me to follow along with what he was saying. So, I pretty much > tuned him out and sat there for two hours, bored out of my mind. > > When it came time to do the blessing, where he does his ooga-booga energy > transmission, we had to sign a release form. It would have been nice if > they'd mentioned that in the flyer, because I would have brought my reading > glasses and a pen. So, on top of boredom, I was now annoyed. I borrowed a pen > and went right up to one of the bright little floor lights and did my best to > read the form and sign it. > > He then tells us to take off our shoes and socks and instructs us to pray to > god, as we understand him/her/it, with our desire while he does his energy > transmission. And, I'm yet again going WTF? All those seeds, plants and > animals you supposedly performed magic on didn't have to pray in order for > your woo-woo to work, so why do we? My upbringing was atheist, and unbounded > ineffable transcendence is the closest I get to having anything resembling an > understanding of god, and it's certainly not something I would pray to. > > So, I sat there and put my attention on my neck, which has been bothering me > for a couple years. This morning, my neck is unchanged. Needless to say, I'm > not the least bit inspired to fork over $300 for an individualized "blessing" > because the only thing that would be blessed is his bank account. At least > part of the $15 I did pay to see him goes to the civic center, which is > struggling financially. >
