Great story, Rick -- but I never had the feeling Mahesh was any more omniscient than the average gyspy fortune teller who could read people, like any sociopath. [See James Randi on cold reading.]
Sociopath, I should add, is not necessarily a pejorative term: it simply indicates someone who has no sense of or possibly no respect for someone else's sense of "boundaries" (among other things). Certainly, we are all sufficiently familiar with the TM Nazi who barges in assuming an ability to read minds and detect hidden agendas. Mahesh could be much the same, but, of course, he had a likable personality, or at least the ability to predent one. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 8/6/06 1:44 PM, gerbal88 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife% 40yahoogroups.com> > > , "curtisdeltablues" > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > >> > > >> > I thought you were referring to the MIU geniuses who claimed that I > >> > had never meditated correctly after I left the movement. > > > > Curtis, I do not remember if I repeated this incident here at FFL. > > When Mahesh first asked me to do his letters, I started by reading > > them to him. One of the first was from some guy who said he was > > saying his mantra backwards and having visions of demons. He actually > > asked what to do!!!!!! > > > > Mahesh laughed and said it didn't matter, just to continue. > > > This reminds me of a story one of Amma¹s swamis told this summer. He was > reading her letters to her, and after reading 10 or so, he heard her laugh > and make a funny sound, so he looked up and saw that she was reading a comic > book. The funny noise was something that had been written in the book. He > said, ³hey, shouldn¹t you be paying attention to your mail?² She then > proceeded to tell him in detail what had been in the letters he had read. > Then, she told him in detail what was in the letters he hadn¹t opened yet. > Then he said, ³why do you bother having me read these if you already know > what¹s in them?² She answered that when people write them, they expect her > to read them, and would feel bad if she didn¹t. > > There was another cool ³omniscience² story that someone told me. One of > Amma¹s swamis who stays in the US much of the year had what he called a > ³negative thought.² He didn¹t tell anyone about it. About three months > later, he came to Amma, and she began teasing him about his negative thought > in front of the other swamis. > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
