--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > There's not a history of it that I'm aware of, but I think that > flipping out if you're unstable and get more shakti than you can > handle happens in all spiritual movements. In fact, it happened > in the drug culture. Some people could drive and eat dinner with > their parents while on acid (me)...
When we promoted dances and light shows back in the late 60s, I was known in the group as Mr. Maintain. Even though we were all stoned while putting on these dances, if anything came up I was the one called to deal with it, because for some reason (I attribute it to a previous study of martial arts) I could. We were once raided by the police, who had gotten a tip that DRUGS might be being used on the premises. So I took the cops under my wing and led them around the dance, carefully pointing out to them the straightest people on the campus and saying shit like, "See him? That guy in the pin-striped Beach Boys shirt? Doesn't he look like a stoner?" And they'd nod and say, "Yeah, he does. We'll watch him." *I* was stoned on 500 micro- grams of Sandoz acid at the time. So I understand your point. :-) > ...and others > are still in the nut house 40 years later. That was mine. > Another point to consider is that > unstable people are often attracted to spiritual paths, hoping > to become healed. Absolutely. > I don't think you need to worry about your own sanity, should you > decide to see Amma. Suffice it to say that after the above incident, and having braved a great deal of shakti exposure since, that was not what I meant. I was expressing concern for those who, for whatever reason, might fall into the "still in the nut house 40 years later" category. Thanks for your reply.
