Why do you keep interacting with Fairfield Life
>(primarily with Curtis and Barry Turq)?
>With all your involvement with the variety of saints and teachers, >with the
>growth you are having (I am basing that on from my reading >here on FFLife -
>as a lurker) why do you bother with FFLife? You >MUST have better things to
>do. I suggest it's an addiction and one >you can do without!
Dear One,
Actually my attachment here is way less than my pen-name appearance might
appear.
And what of yours? You moved away from Fairfield and dropped to posting hardly
at all on FFL after some while. Yet you keep coming back to read it. Your
addiction keeps you coming back, obviously.
As far as me, Curtis and Turq, I am interested academically in what they have
to say.
The same kinds of criticism Curtis and Turq make was leveled at other
transcendentalists before. Like Mother Anne both before and after her death,
and at the Shaker org after her death as their next generations took over.
Also at Emerson in his career as a teaching lecturing transcendentalist, he
would get this same criticism, a contending & attack by deniers wanting to
dispute POV and doctrine. Same again against Elias Hicks in his time.
Spiritual experience vs doctrine devoid of spiritual experience.
Curtis and Turq are interesting because they are smart, well written,
fallen-away, and deniers. Classic sophists & to nearly the point of Pharisaic
in their indictments. I like them in that it is interesting to see it for
what is by contrast. That is my blog interest in it. Is simply as
exploration. Like Chapter II Gita.
I appreciate that folks write things often as an exploration of somethings. A
consideration. There is a lot of that on FFL.
Curtis and Turq are quite good at it & I like them a lot for that and actually
don't take it personally. The thing they lack is spiritual experience, that is
all. Their POV's often point in the right direction. I like that they are
spirited in their points of view even if wrong & then also they are not really
bad like some.
Is interesting that you picked up on that thread. You never know who really is
reading here.
And Fairfield? I live here still and like it very much for many reasons. I
miss that you are no longer here and do not post much to FFL either. I
appreciate that you took the time to write to me out of concern directly about
this. Really I don't spend much time at all on FFL. Most of what I might
write I may text or jot down while I am out doing farm work as something occurs
to me as I'm doing other things. A lot of times I am four or five posts ahead
waiting for a thread to develop in a direction. As it always has been, it is
incredibly easy to edit and lead FFL in directions depending on content. I
think it is great that Rick has kept this place as a blog to be used. Some
call it Rick's list, I look at it as a place for one of my blogs. I write a
lot otherwise too.
In fact, FFL, Fairfield and the TMmovement discussions often are useful to the
community here. The sex, money & power, it all gets mitigated in ways and
folks behave a little more accountably when brought (may be even flushed or
dragged) out in the open. That continues to be a power with the internet and
in FFL as forum. There is a reality to that as, "you got to know the
territory".
The communal value is that FFL still can serve as a place in the community
where truth can get rendered down more quickly as things come up. Like
recently with Raja Nadar Tony and his wife. FFL readership evidently goes up
and down but becomes substantial and important when stuff like that happens
simply because the movement.org is not inclined to tell the whole truth left to
its own. That is left to FFL for the benefit of those of us who do live here.
Discovery is still the real value of FFL & thanks to Rick and the other FFL
moderators for hosting it.
Jai Adi Shankara,
-Buck in FF
