Just as a followup, I loved the comment from 'Joel P,' who just nailed it:
"...the overall message that this post conveys can more or less be summed up as
follows: 'I was so amazing, inspired, and committed to a project that was so
unbelievable and historically significant that I didn't pay enough attention to
how hard it was for all of you to follow me. . . and I'm so sorry for that. Did
I mention how amazing I am?'"
That's really it. That's the vibe I always got from Robin Carlsen. Pure,
classic, textbook Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: FairfieldLife
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 11:52 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] For those interested in the "Neo-Advaita" phenomenon
Here's an interesting "apology" letter from one of the most embarrassing
examples of "Neo-Advaita" teaching ever, Andrew Cohen.
If you're interesting in this particular branch of spiritual craziness, I
advise skimming the "mea culpa" letter (which I regard as total bullshit and
being as clearly symptomatic of Narcissistic Personality Disorder as many of
Robin Carlsen's similar "mea culpa" postings), and instead reading through many
of the comments, especially the one from Rick Taylor. You might also look up
comments made by Cohen's *mother*, who became his student at one point, and was
told "to give way to him or their relationship would end" and forbidden "to
express an opinion on anything". She says that she "knew if I seriously
objected to anything, I'd be kicked out" and stated that her son, formerly the
"sweetest, sensitive kid, had changed into an unrecognizable tyrant."
All in all, this is an example of how badly a supposed spiritual teaching can
go wrong, when people are stupid enough to just believe someone when they claim
to be "enlightened." It also points out the problems with this whole faux
"lineage" of Neo-Advaitans: "One of the tragedies of Poonjaji's teaching
ministry is that he either told, inferred, or allowed hundreds of individuals
to believe they were fully enlightened simply because they'd had one, or many,
powerful experiences of awakening. These "enlightened" teachers then proceeded
to enlighten their own students in a similar way, and thus was born what is
known as the "neo-Advaita", or "satsang" movement in western culture."
An open letter to all my former students upon return from my sabbatical.
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| An open letter to all my former students upon return from my sabbatical.Dear
Ones, It has been almost 2 years since the structures of our shared Utopian
experiment collapsed so violently and so completely. It’s also been almost that
long that I have dropped out of sight. |
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