--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think that love and critical faculties are mutually > exclusive. One should never abdicate one's critical faculties. > If a spiritual teacher tells you to do so, head for the door.
I couldn't agree more, and find the assertion to the opposite -- that one "should" believe that one's spiritual teacher is "perfect" -- very curious indeed. The *same* people who say this blithely about their spiritual teacher would never in a million years say something similar about their parents or their wives or husbands or anyone else they loved. They would never consider these people "perfect," and yet they love them anyway. And yet, they'll claim that anyone who believes that their spiritual teacher is less than perfect doesn't love them. Go figure. . . . > > your "facts" are not facts at all, > > That's your fundamentalist speaking. You're rejecting out of > hand things that you haven't even looked at. And, in my opinion, are terrified *to* look at. The fear involves more than the knowledge that they risk excommunication from the TM movement *for* looking at things critically. As potent and powerful that possibility is, what I think this fellow and his ilk are afraid of is at a much deeper level than that. They're afraid that critical examination might reveal that they were wrong, and wrong for decades. To many people, facing that possibility is one of the worst things they can imagine. Whereas for those of us who have *no problem* with having been wrong in the past, it's no biggie.
