Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl01230)

At 12:24 AM 5/22/96 -0400, you wrote:
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>Murray:
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>Good posting. You're reflecting on the psychological undertones of our
>discussions and the periodic tide of anger that increases with the
>full moon. <smile> With mercury retrograde until next Monday afternoon (PST),
>we have a few more days of misunderstanding before us. Maybe after than
>everything will be clear again.
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>>Alexis is too opinionated, and far too experiential for his own good.
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>He's trying to shock us into new insights, using tried-and-proven
>shamanistic techniques. The only problem is that the techniques work
>in a psychological context, and not on a plane of pure intellect.

Alexis comments:

My God, I've finally succeeded, for the last 50 years everyone's been
telling me I was infinitely too Ivory Tower,  too "pure intellectual"!
Joseph G. Miller (San Francisco TSA), who was a legitimate Zen Roshi and an
equally legitimate Sufi Murshid; used to tell me: "You can get more stinken
from thinken than drinken but to feel is for real", and here I am, just
about 20 years later, getting told I am "too experiential for my own good",
I've succeeded, for no one can ever be too experiential for their own good!
But, as I know, also from bitter experience, that one can very easily get to
intellectual for one's own good. I'll therefore stay the way I am!

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>>Alan is too flippant, and word-miserly. Oh, yes, and experiential too.
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>He's the diplomatic statesman awaiting his first appointment by the
>Masters as ambassador to globe d. Until then, he'll have to settle
>for being the unofficial president of the biggest active theosophical
>society in the world.
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>>Chuck is just too much. Obviously has experiences, I would say.
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>There's a rinzai temple looking for him. He's a wanted man! His one-liners
>have earned him a reputation as the world champion koan master, and the
>sect with the big sticks wants his leadership.
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>>Dan is too reasonable. Look out.
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>I think that HPB said that in BCW, XII, 14, para. 3, in reference to
>the Solar Pitris in their role of quickeners of humanity. The problem
>is that while Daniel is searching for citations, the world is looking
>for published books wherein *he* can be cited.
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>>Eldon is too considered and good-natured.
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>It must come from being married. Sometimes theos-l seems calmer
>than home life, easier to stay out of trouble. I must, though, like
>sunburns, because I keep finding them in this hangout.
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>>JRC is too strident, and dangerously perceptive.
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>Remind me not to run against him for any T.S. office. I'll stay
>behind the scenes as a worker/contributor, and leave the battles to
>the dragon slayers. (Someone ask Alexis to stop tossing a dragon
>costume over me!)

DRAGON?????DRAGON?????You??????? Tetse fly maybe, Dragon never!
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>>JHE is too, ... I dunno. What's wrong with him? Somebody come to my rescue.
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>Well, in the 1970's, in the context of Venice Beach, he was a student
>of Lina Psaltis. At a later period, in the context of Alexandria West,
>he was a theos-l pundit. Someone has him what he is in the context of
>*eternal duration*.
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>>Liesel is too realistic.
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>Probably something she learned from Serge. Or maybe she acquired
>a taste of realism after that expedition to Tibet, where she
>visited that village of Adepts, chasing them out of their huts,
>driving them out of town, so that they could find employment and
>do something useful in the world?
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>>Ramadoss always has a nice answer. You've got to watch those ones.
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>But nice answers were specifically voted down in the election on
>05/20/96, where out of 432,993 members of Gurus International,
>5 of the 6 that voted expressed a dislike of nice answers. Although
>the Mahachohan immediately faxed a letter voiding the election, the
>Council of Elders overruled him, reinstating the election results.
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>>Me, I'm well, er, well, not bad, really. In fact most agreeable. A reasonable
>>sort of guy. Yes; that's it. I phrased that rather well, don't you think?
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>You're a bit brave to walk out into an open field, during a
>thunderstorm, passing by the charred remains of lightening-struck
>trees. But who knows, perhaps you can actually change the weather?
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>>Love you, you lot.
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>Does this mean that recess is over? Do we have to stop playing
>and come in now?
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>-- Eldon
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