They were often redundant. I know his theory was you have to say the same things over and over again for it to sink in but for me it "heard that, got the t-shirt, what else you got?"
Jason wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > > >
