--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <j_alexander_stanley@> > wrote: > <snip> > > 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? > > Humans are more complicated? Lots more mental stuff > going on? Might inadvertently create some resistance?
Trivedi specifically addressed resistance as being the reason why some people need more than one blessing to achieve results. > > 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. > > Why not do TM, or whatever gets you to the transcendent? > Or pray to the divine aspect of yourself? > > If this dude does anything, I should think, it's to > somehow mobilize one's self-healing abilities. The > trick would be to get out of the way of whatever > aspect of one's self does the healing. Animals and > plants don't have anything to get *in* the way. > > Just guessing... I'll just chalk this up as yet another case of me being out of step with the prevailing paradigms, because I feel like his instruction basically summoned my resistance.
