Of course you take it as a swipe at Robin. As far as I can recall, you've done nothing but swipe at him ever since he got here.
He went to the trouble of writing you two long, detailed posts explaining how he viewed the TM-Sidhis, basically saying you were technically correct, but that there were other considerations you weren't taking into account. The posts were kind amd generous; he didn't dump on you. If you wanted to refresh your memory, here are the two posts (the first is quoted in its entirety): https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/topics/311759 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/topics/311759 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote : Fair enough. We'd have to ask him to be sure, of course. The fact that he never bothered to learn the TM-Sidhis was quite interesting, especially in-line of Maharishi's comment that they would educate certain people about their own state of enlightenment once they practiced them. I take this to be a swipe at Robin, to be honest. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote : You said it was your "impression" that he came to grief 30 years ago because he stopped meditating regularly once he thought he'd become enlightened. I asked where you could have gotten that impression. You responded that he had told you last year (actually two years ago; I checked) that he had stopped meditating. "It's been awhile," he said. What does one have to do with the other? Why would the fact that he hadn't meditated for "awhile" as of two years ago rule out that he stopped meditating at some point after his crackup 30 years ago? As to the irony, it was in what he didn't say: "I'd probably feel really really good [if I meditated now, but considering what ultimately happened to me 30 years ago as a result of meditating and feeling really really good, I would no more start again than fly to the moon. Haven't you read my posts?]." Sort of like asking a heroin addict who had been in recovery for 30 years how it would feel to start using again. Really dumb question. In any case, I don't know when exactly he stopped meditating regularly. I'm just saying it makes no sense for you to assume it was before his crackup (and therefore the cause of it) rather than after (as a result of his crackup). Clear now? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote : Well, I miss both the irony AND what you are trying to say about what I actually said. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote : Good grief, Lawson. You just said you thought he fell apart because he had stopped meditating--but that would have been 30 years ago. How on earth does what he told you last year validate that, in your mind? I think this is the weirdest thing I've ever seen you say. Of course he stopped meditating once he decided his enlightenment had been his downfall, after everything had gone flooey for him. What you have no basis for having an "impression" about is that he stopped before then. And just for the record, when he told you he no longer meditated and that he suspected it might make him feel better if he did meditate, he was being gently ironic because it was such an incredibly dumb question for you to ask, given what he'd posted about what he'd been through. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote : I asked him specifically if he still meditated, and he said no, and that he suspected that if he did, he might feel better. My impression is that he had stopped meditating well before his epiphany that Hindu stuff was Bad, Very Badâ„¢ because he believed he no longer needed to. I might be wrong, of course. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote : I have no idea where you got the idea that Robin stopped meditating regularly before things fell apart. That's a conjecture with no basis in anything he or anybody else ever said. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote : I personally think that Robin went over teh edge as soon as he stopped meditating regularly. Why? Because Maharishi said over and over again, that the time when enlightenment dawns is the time of greatest unstressing and the time when regularity of practice is most vital. Robin apparently ignored that part of MMY's teachign completely: the more enlightened he considered himself, the less he bothered to meditate, or such is my impression. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote : Robin himself acknowledges he went over the edge toward the end of his decade of purported enlightenment. Whether he was "more than a bit unbalanced" up to that point is a different question, one that "most people" aren't in a position to know. (Some people on FFL think you're more than a bit unbalanced, after all.) In his heyday, Robin had a lot of appeal, as Ann points out. Did you read the file I cited? I should think you'd find it of interest, given what he says about the TMO in that Ledger ad. You're always looking for data, and as I said, he agreed with your view of the TMO in many respects.