I wonder if anyone even reads those rebuttals.  But I suppose they are
gratifying to you.

This is the image that always comes to mind.

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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray27" wrote:
>
>
> My goodness you've had a busy week, Judy. Time to holster that gun,
> dontcha think? You've gone into overtime shooting down lies and
> bloopers, and whoppers, and ooopsies like we haven't seen in a long
> time. I'd say you're 49 for 49 for uncovering Barry's lies, my lies,
> Share's lies, Susan's lies, Xeno's lies. Oh, and some good mind
reading
> as pertains to the schism book.
>
> I hope Robin appreciates the extra work.
>
> Who's this last bullet gonna be for?
>
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote:
> >
> > First and second, more bloopers from our little Stevie.
> >
> > Third, Maharishi and Robin.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 348918
> >
> > Ooooopsie, Stevie, I suspect Ann was referring to the
> > assertion that you carefully snipped, most likely because
> > by the time you wrote this you realized your error.
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" awoelflebater@ wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray27"
> > wrote:
> > (snip)
> > > > glad for the clarification Jim and for letting us know how
> > > > "above board" and "honorable" you are for bringing a family
> > > > member's suicide into the discussion here.
> > >
> > > Get the timeline and the events here straight Steve. Go back
> > > and have a look. Read what Barry has had to say about Jim and
> > > Jim's brother now and many posts ago and then draw some
> > > reasonable conclusions. Figure out which bandwagon you want
> > > to leap on before you do so.
> >
> > DrD did not bring Barry's brother's suicide into the
> > discussion here. Barry did (post #348743).
> >
> >
> >
> > 348875
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray27" steve.sundur@
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Quite interesting. I know others will say why even bother with
> > > something over thirty years old, but some of this (beginning on
page
> > > 289) directly contradicts many of Robin's avowed claims. Sad
really.
> >
> > Gee, Stevie, I guess I need to repeat what I told you
> > awhile back: It would be in your best interests not
> > even to *try* to understand the controversies that go
> > on here, let alone comment on them, because you almost
> > invariably get them wrong.
> >
> > It's partly because you can't be bothered to read the
> > posts with attention, but even if you did, I'm very
> > dubious you would have anything but confusion to
> > contribute.
> >
> > > Judy always trots out the article of faith that Maharishi secretly
> > > supported Robin. Sort of blows that up, doesn't it?
> >
> > Judy has only *speculated* to that effect. See how you
> > got that wrong?
> >
> > And no, the book chapter doesn't "blow that up" in any
> > case. You might want to look up the word "secretly" in
> > Mr. Dictionary.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 348930
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" LEnglish5@ wrote:
> > >
> > > As understand it, MMY said that Robin Carlson's experiences of
> > > Unity (book says "Cosmic Consciousness") were valid and asked
> > > him to describe them.
> >
> > Actually Robin described his experiences to Maharishi, who
> > then said they were valid. And they were most definitely
> > both talking about Unity, not just CC.
> >
> > > Robin took this as a personal declaration of his own full
> > > enlightenment and, like others have done, refused to "go and
> > > be viable in society," but instead got full of himself.
> >
> > Actually he went and became quite "viable in society," thank
> > you very much. When the course he was on was over, he went
> > back to Canada to teach and supported himself doing so for
> > some years. And until things began to go wrong seven or so
> > years later, his students (mostly TM initiators) were
> > extremely enthusiastic about what he taught them.
> >
> > > MMY not wanting to comment in public on Robin's enlightenment
> > > is no more significant than him not wanting to comment on MY
> > > enlightenment: it's not his place to micromanage arbitrary
> > > people's states of consciousness.
> >
> > Well, that's true, at least publicly. He did comment on it
> > during the course Robin was on, even asked him to wait for
> > a few days to describe it until the video cameras were up
> > and running so they could get his comments on tape. (Who
> > knows where that tape is now...)
> >
> > But the larger point is that Robin never got any signals
> > that Maharishi disapproved of what he was doing until his
> > campaign at MIU--and Maharishi had been keeping close tabs
> > on him after he set up shop in Canada. His whole teaching
> > gig was based on the assumption (Robin's and his students')
> > that he was in Unity.
> >
> > It's mysterious, to say the least, why Maharishi wouldn't
> > have sent word that Robin should stop claiming he was in
> > Unity if Maharishi didn't think he *was* in Unity,
> > especially given that Robin was working with all these TM
> > initiators. Why wasn't Maharishi concerned about the
> > "purity of the teaching" his own initiators were getting
> > if it was coming from someone he thought was deluded or
> > lying?
> >
> >
> > (Lawson, I can't help myself. How many times have you read
> > the name "Carlsen" and yet still keep spelling it "Carlson"?)
> >
>


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