--- 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. 


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