On Feb 1, 2011, at 4:14 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
Think about it. Pretty much the *only* things she's ever done in terms of actual hands-on spiritual practice is to meditate regularly and watch a few videotapes. She's spent (as far as I can tell) only one short period of her life "rounding." She never became a TM teacher, and most tellingly, the person who considers herself qualified to speak authori- tatively about Maharishi and "what he taught" never was even in the same room with him. She's never been (again, as far as I can tell) in the same room with ANY guru or spiritual teacher. Her relationship *with* spiritual teachers is exactly the same as what you suggest about her relationship with the movies she offers opinions on, never having seen them. It's all fantasy, all in her head. And the clincher is that she feels that that is *enough* to pose as an authority about them. I'm really not sure which came first, the choice of profession as a petty tyrant who gets to impose her opinions on others (that is, being an editor) or the desire to impose her laughable "authority" on others, which led her to become an editor. It's a real chicken- and-egg situation. But again, I think it's worth pointing out that *even within the realm of her supposed experience* (editing, and the supposed mastery of words), she's a really shitty writer. What else can you call someone who has to spend a quarter of her posts every week trying to claim that others "misunderstood" or "misrepresented" what she wrote and having to re-write it? A real writer just writes and allows the writing to stand on its own, like azgrey did. His brilliant insight stands on its own, accurate and self-contained. Judy would require 10 posts and double that number of insults to not make her point even a fraction as well.
In my new book, The Quasi-Transcendental Hermeneutics of Judith Stein for Dummies, we discuss this on pages 1837-1985.
