authfriend: > Robin, delighted you're back. I was afraid you > were through with FFL... > After reading so many of the pompous claims by the Turq and the Vaj, this Robin guy is like breathing fresh air.
If folks aren't reading Curtis and Robin, what are they here for? It really gets boring reading posts that begin and end on one line! Go figure. So, Robin insisted that Maharishi had privately acknowledged his attaining cosmic consciousness. But, apparently prior to joining TM, Carsen was involved with Werner Erhard and est. So, it seems like 'schism' is the correct word in this context. The word schism is from the Greek 'to split up'. This book provides the first book-length study of religious schisms as a general phenomenon: Examples are drawn from a wide variety of different traditions and geographical areas, from early Mediterranean Christianity to modern Japanese New Religions, and from the Jehovah's Witnesses to Neo-Pagans to TM, and the break between Robin Carlsen, Deepak Chopra, and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Read more: 'Sacred Schisms' How Religions Divide By James R. Lewis and Sarah M. Lewis Cambridge University Press, 2009 Amazon $94.42 http://tinyurl.com/6ntt548
