Man, you have a point. I hated his lectures. It was full of shit.
However, I loved to listen to Nader, Hagelin, Dilbeck etc etc.
--- On Mon, 4/19/10, curtisdeltablues <curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: My experience with Trivedi
Date: Monday, April 19, 2010, 9:52 AM
I think the accent thing is a help since we are much more adept at noticing
gaps in logic when our conscious mind is not hung up on figuring out what is
being said. While most of use could spot a televangelist routine in our own
language, we give a foreign person a lot more leeway and most people don't like
to appear culturally insensitive by challenging a foreign born speaker. So much
of Maharishi's personal pettiness was just written off as part of his
inscrutable Indianness.
In some street cons the person purposely speaks too rapidly to follow until the
person's eyes glaze over and they are given a direct command which due to brain
overload they sometimes follow without reflection.
So much of Maharishi's speech patterns were designed to overwhelm our mind's
ability to analyze what he was saying. And if that didn't work he just wore us
down with hours of speaking on abstract topics.
There is an old saw from Neuro-Linguistic Programming that if you have been
listening to someone for 5 minutes and you still haven't heard anything that
you could put in a wheelbarrow, you are being hypnotized. State change language
is not meant to inform, it is mean to shift you out of your conscious mind's
usual organization. Depending on your beliefs in the person doing this shifting
you would either consider this a good or a bad thing. But one thing for sure,
your ability to apply the rules of reason gets impaired.
