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Robert Priddy On Jaani Drucker, As Sathya Sai Baba Cultist In Denial
2010-05-12 04:06:00 Robert Priddy has just blogged the article: Jaani Drucker ? wild claims not supported by her actions , Posted by robertpriddy on May 11, 2010. He refers to my series quoting and commenting on correspondence between Jaani Drucker and myself: Reply To Claimer of Spiritual Enlightenment (Yaani Drucker Correspondence) Part 1 Exchanges of views on how rape and sexual abuse affect the real person or whether they merely affect the body, as is held by rape victim Jaani Drucker. Reply To Claimer of Enlightenment (Yaani Drucker Correspondance) Part 2 Jaani Drucker continually responds to neither to the spirit or the letter of her claim that " happy to discuss and debate issues" rather flatly rejecting all points on the ground that she knows the ultimate truth. Reply To Claimer of Enlightenment (Jaani Drucker Correspondance) Part 3 Jaani Drucker evades Pittard's contention that those who have had such traumatic experiences need to reach out to an experienced, qualified profession, and th...
Reply To Claimer of Spiritual Enlightenment (Yaani Drucker Correspondence)
2010-03-02 10:12:00 This piece continues from: Reply To Claimer of Spiritual Enlightenment (Yaani Drucker Correspondence) Part 5 - my response to Yaani Drucker, who wrote to me in the first instance. Many Sathya Sai devotees worldwide have hero-worshipped her and her husband Professor Al Drucker (formerly with NASA). To some devotees, it has not mattered that Sai Baba has treated them both very harshly ...
Reply To Claimer of Spiritual Enlightenment (Yaani Drucker Correspondence)
2010-02-28 03:48:00 Continuing from: Reply To Claimer of Enlightenment (Jaani Drucker Correspondance) Part 4 .... , my response to Yaani Drucker, who claims on her website to be enlightened, and to "Have truth, will travel". She wrote to me that: "I am happy to discuss and debate issues. I have responded to every issue you raised". However, readers who appreciate norms of language, logic and sticking to points raised will see clearly that Ms Drucker veers (not at all, I think, meaning to be dishonest) away from issues put to her. She also reveals a strong tendency to assume that her view of strange events in the presence of Sathya Sai Baba must be the correct. In fact, the state of scientific knowledge DOES allow us to make eminently reasonable alternative interpretations of what Ms Drucker takes to be inviolable truths (perhaps I should have capitalized the last word). She writes: .......
Reply To Claimer of Spiritual Enlightenment (Yaani Drucker Correspondence)
2010-02-25 23:26:00 Continuing from: Reply To Claimer of Enlightenment (Jaani Drucker Correspondance) Part 2 .... , my response to Yaani Drucker, who claims on her website to be enlightened, and to "Have truth, will travel". She wrote to me: "And when we know who we are, we will know a little better who Sai Baba is. So the task at hand is to know yourself, rather than spending your time trying to pin a crime on Sai Baba. However if you wish to pursue that course, Sai Baba does say Inimical Bhakti is the fastest path to truth, so I am sure it is serving the highest good". Note: I had pointed out to Ms Drucker that it is important for survivors of severe trauma to seek qualified professional counseling, and also (bearing in mind that she is a public figure) she has the responsibility correctly to model this kind of service to those who read her writings.
Reply To Claimer of Spiritual Enlightenment (Yaani Drucker Correspondence)
2010-02-23 22:30:00 Continuing from: Reply To Claimer of Enlightenment (Jaani Drucker Correspondance) Part 2 .... , my response to Yaani Drucker, who claims on her website to be enlightened, and to "Have truth, will travel". She has explained that her "rape experience happened in 1985, in a house next to the Stanton Sai Center, on the same property as the Sai center in S. California". I have suggested to her that those who have had such traumatic experiences need to reach out to an experienced, qualified profession, and that it is a dangerous undertaking to recommend a course of action which relies on faith or notions of enlightenment alone. She replied: "Is it necessary for a rape victim to receive professional counseling? This assumes that psychology/ psychotherapy has answers that ABSOLUTE TRUTH does not".
Reply To Claimer of Enlightenment (Yaani Drucker Correspondence) Part 2
2010-02-22 02:40:00 Continuing from: Reply To Claimer of Enlightenment (Jaani Drucker Correspondance) Part 1 .... , my response to Jaani Drucker, who claims both in correspondence and on her website to be enlightened, and to "Have truth, will travel". In an email to me, she says, "Baba demonstrates that He clearly manipulates the laws of physical reality, because He can". In another email, she says: "Sai Baba has demonstrated powers of omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence. I am convinced of His divinity and that everything He does is in the service of the uplift of all. He knows the past, present and future of each of us, and He knows how to transform the world into a world of peace, love and joy for all". She put the question to me: "Is it necessary for a rape victim to receive professional counseling? This assumes that psychology/ psychotherapy has answers that ABSOLUTE TRUTH does not". ------------------------- Note: Ms Drucker writes that "I am happy to discuss and debate issues. I...
Enlightenment in Lew-Port
2009-06-08 19:58:00 The Lew-Port School Board President thinks racist, misogynist emails are hilarious. Like most people over 50, he takes glee in forwarding them to a lengthy list of email recipients. Problem is, many of them don't think "negro" jokes and black-people-hate-to-work jokes are all that "funny". When interviewed by ...
By: BuffaloPundit
A Return From My Sabbatical Quest For Enlightenment
2009-04-22 20:02:00 I took a break from blogging these past few months, because I sensed that it was time to refresh the well. My good stars were in retrograde, my aura was turning a mildewed green color, my Chi was curdled, my crystals needed salting, my crystal ball was cracked, my runes were all out of alphabetical order and three of them were lost behind the sofa, my biorhythms looked like a roller coaster, and I was all out of mana. So I took off in search of the Meaning Of The Internet. This was no easy journey. I crept about in the dark of night and eavesdropped on counsels of Illuminati. I prayed to the Flying Spaghetti monster. I viewed ‘2 girls 1 cup’ with my eyeballs propped open with toothpicks and my head taped to the chair-back so I couldn’t look away. I unraveled the truth of the Time Cube. I mixed Mentos and Diet Coke in a Klein bottle. I took a binary approach to Zen and became zero with everything. I solved Portal and stole the cake and ate it and came back and con...
Ready for Enlightenment?
2008-10-30 15:01:00 There is no mistaking the changes and energetic shifts taking place all over this beautiful Planet. Those who have been working on their spiritual paths as Lightworker's waking up to the truth of who and what they really are, know all to well that these changing times referred to by some as the Age of Enlightenment, are radically changing every aspect of their lives and transforming them into the Paradise they have always dreamed of. Despite the doom and gloom our media would rather have us believe and despite whatever is going on around them!!How is that possible?For those not yet on the conscious path of ascension, these can feel like scary things indeed. The media does a good job of feeding anyone willing to pay attention all the fear based drama they can stomach. However, when one begins to experience the awakening of the enlightenment within them that has long awaited to burst forth, they are RE-Membering the truth about more than just themselves. The long slumbering multidime...
By: Mystical Minds
Principles of enlightenment
2008-10-29 00:35:00 Having finally understood enlightenment I've done a video explaining its nature as learnt from Sage Amrit on Youtube. Here are the principles which led me to follow all the meanings the teachers use but are rarely clear or complete.1) You do need to work at it. Take a practice from a teacher and stick with it. The few who become enlightened automatically are saints and an exception. Most involve focusing on the present, and I describe these in the video.2) It usually starts to show gradual results, few go from nothing to all suddenly.3) Just because we are told the world is a dream or illusion that only applies after you're enlightened. Until then it's damn real and we have to deal with it.4) Enlightenment is of two parts. One is dropping the ego, that which tells us we are a person who is separate from everything else. This is done indirectly through practice. When this happens, then the calm, peace, bliss etc comes with it. If it doesn't you're probably not there yet.5) You c...
Nothing left but enlightenment
2008-09-29 18:23:00 Well so far it's a pretty free week ahead, and I've kept busy enough since the plans finally ran out. No more projects or expectations, only the new belief in enlightenment which could cover all other areas if the effort pays off. Everyone I contacted hasn't replied, and the one who may (an official one) was probably sent to the wrong place anyway now I've done my homework. I still have little ideas for afternoons out but no actual projects aiming for success in any area I haven't got already.Not having enough has been the theme of my life really, I've made the list before and really believe compared to maybe 90% of people I've had a raw deal. If you look at the statistics I've lost out nearly every step of the way. OK, since then I've learnt to accept all of them besides being single which feels like a life sentence in solitary, but of course all the rest buggered up my life till I did accept them. They call it a challenge...I genuinely believe I'm not so repellent to bot...
A Commuter's Guide to Enlightenment | Stewart Bitkoff
2008-08-15 07:20:00 During the days of your life,divine breeze will blow,so watch out for them.- Mohammed.'Spirituality' as labeled by the general mass, in the past used to be seeked through austere practices, in the cave of Himalaya or in total seclusion from the samsara (worldly drama). But there is another kind of spirituality that has always been present and available, another kind of 'reality map of understanding what is spiritual' that pervades the ordinary, every day life. Sometime this is called 'Spirituality of the Market place'. A Commuter's Guide to Enlightenment by Dr. Stewart Bitkoff is a book of that genre which helps transform repeated daily activity, experiences of market place into daily meditation of purpose.The author who himself has walked the sufi path, captures this in the book in his quoting a famous sufi saying, "The apparent is the bridge to the real."On the nature of enlightenment the books speaks quite importantly: "In some traditions, enlightenment is attained in one ...
Part of the Picture: Let There Be Enlightenment
2008-07-25 19:16:00 LET THERE BE ENLIGHTENMENT read more
Breeze of enlightenment
2008-06-02 13:28:00 Analysis on dream submitted by Anonymous in Melbourne, Australia.Dream- I was inside a train and sensed it was time to get off. I stood up from my seat and reached into an overhead compartment to get my belongings. I felt a peaceful presence beside me. As I raised the door, I saw a pile of wool mittens. They weren't mine. I sensed a draft before a gust of air sucked me out the door. Part of me knew why. It was a good feeling, like if I didn't take heed, something key would pass me by.Predominant Emotions- anticipation, preparedness, hesitation,- confidence, optimism.Interpretation- As revelations blow in, you may feel someone else has been conducting your symphony. To stand up for yourself, you must realize you engineer your own life. Your free will and innate power shape your decisions and how you pigeonhole yourself. The more you listen ...
Enlightenment - Part 3
2008-05-31 21:28:00 Did you hear us say that you may be here and you may want more money, or yo u may be here without a relationship that you want and you may want a relationship but really what you are wanting is the way you think you will feel when you achieve it . ...
Enlightenment - Part 2
2008-05-31 17:28:00 One day we were visiting with someone and they were talking about someone w ho had counseled them to release their desires because their desires were heavy an d bulky by the perspectives of this counselor. And they were encouraged to release their desires for these worldly things. And we said, “What is the ...
Enlightenment - Part 1
2008-05-31 11:28:00 Enlightenment (Part 1): Participant: I’ve studied a lot of different teachers and a lot of them ta lk about enlightenment. And some of them talk about how all the desires we have on t he physical level you know, some of them say it is fine to have them Abraham: Good because you ...
Silent Thoughts - Take each step with care
2008-05-30 18:00:00 English Translation The journey of life is short but difficult to travel. We must take each step with care so we do not lose direction and take the wrong path. Original Mandarin Version ???????? ?????? ???????? ?????????? Deimos Analyzes - For Non-Bloggers Anakin Skywalker succumbed to the dark side and thus became the fearsome Darth Vader, fortunately there is still some good in him and he became ...
Silent Thoughts - Filial is rewarding
2008-05-28 18:00:00 English Translation To be filial is in fact the most rewarding thing in life Original Mandarin Version ????? ???????? Deimos Analyzes - For Non-Bloggers Our parents dedicated their time, energy, money etc to bring us up, so it is only fair enough that we treat them nice and well, right? Deimos Analyzes - For Bloggers Not applicable. Correct Deimos if he is wrong. Deimos?s Daily ...
Silent Thoughts - Tolerance and Adversities
2008-05-27 18:00:00 English Translation The ability to tolerate is not the highest ideal. When we can see all adversities as natural, what is there to be tolerated? Original Mandarin Version ???????? ?????? ???????? ??????? Deimos Analyzes - For Non-Bloggers To tolerate is not exactly a nice and pleasurable thing, since usually mental or physical suffering is involved when one needs to tolerate. Plus, there might be times ...
Silent Thoughts - Greed is not good
2008-05-26 18:00:00 English Translation The reason we feel lost and unhappy is greed. In fact, we need very little to sustain our life. Leading a simple, well-grounded life, we will naturally be happy and at peace. Original Mandarin Version ???? ?????? ?????????? ???????? ???????? Deimos Analyzes - For Non-Bloggers If everyone practices the above, there would no rich mofos in this world. Deimos Analyzes - For Bloggers If every blogger thinks ...
Silent Thoughts - Do More Gain More
2008-05-26 05:46:00 English Translation The more we do, The more we gain; The less we do, The more we lose. Original Mandarin Version ???? ???? Deimos Analyzes - For Non-Bloggers If one is an employee and the company pays for overtime, working extra hours means earning more money from one’s monthly salary pay check. For any type of sales person, actively seeking out more potential clients basically ...
Silent Thoughts - Stopping Halfway
2008-05-25 04:15:00 English Translation Stopping halfway is, in truth, more difficult and tiring than persevering on the path toward the final goal. Original Mandarin ???? ???????? Deimos Analyzes - For Non-Bloggers In the building construction industry, stopping halfway basically means either losing lots of money or going bankrupt. This is especially true for building contractors, who have to fork out the money before receiving payment ...
Silent Thoughts - Affliction can be meaningful
2008-05-23 18:00:00 English Translation Affliction can be meaningful when we can grow wise from it Original Mandarin Version ???????? ???????? Deimos Analyzes - For Non-Bloggers For example, say Deimos feels afflicted whenever he unintentionally made his Darling unhappy or pissed off as she has a very short fuse. Thus, he must not repeat the same mistakes again least she blows a fuse again. However, ...
Silent Thoughts - Make most of now
2008-05-22 18:00:00 English Translation Not knowing how we came to be born or where we will go after death, the most meaningful thing to do is to make the most of now. Original Mandarin Version ???????? ?????? ??????? Deimos Analyzes - For Non-Bloggers Devoted Christians might disagree with the first part, since true believers will ascend to heaven as according to the what is written in the ...
Silent Thoughts - Destitution
2008-05-21 18:00:00 English Translation It is difficult to remain grateful in destitution; however, a person who does good with a grateful heart is less likely to fall into destitution. Original Mandarin Version ???????? ????????? ????????? ???????? Deimos Analyzes - For Non-Bloggers This first sentence is very true, most of the time folks in destitution end up committing suicide, if they are not mentally rescued in time. The second ...
A Re-Enlightenment
2008-05-21 17:12:00 Long ago, back in the eighteenth century, people began to realize that human?s had certain natural rights. Religion faltered and science became a way of exploring the world around us. People realized that governments gained legitimacy through the people, not divine intervention. It was with these ideas in mind, that monarchy and tyranny began to ...
Silent Thoughts - Warm and Happy Family
2008-05-20 18:00:00 English Translation To have a warm and happy family, we should nurture a heart of joy and shower our family with blessings Original Mandarin Version ????????? ????????? ????????? Deimos Analyzes - For Non-Bloggers This one is quite self explanatory, Deimos has not much to add. Perhaps one way to look at it is via the opposite side, the other side of the fence. Say we ...
Al and Pala's Enlightenment for Two?
2008-05-19 22:48:00 Watch for more announcments about our new membership website Sexy Spiritual Relationships - Lauching early in July 2008 We have discovered that if you get the sex right, most of the rest of your relationship issues can be worked out much more easily. (...)
Be Your Own Guru: Personal and Business Enlightenment in Just 3 Days!
2008-05-17 23:34:00 The bad news is that no-one can 'give you' either emotional or spiritual intelligence. But the good news is that - because those intelligences are already lying dormant deep within you - you can learn how to harness these powers for yourself. Effectively you'll become your own guru - and once you've discovered how to tap into your hidden resources, you'll find yourself rapidly shortening the learning curve to both happiness and profits! Written in an engaging style by former journalist Olivia Stefanino, Be Your Own Guru is intriguing, inspiring and above all, accessible. Personal anecdotes and real-life case studies will be incorporated into an overall 'program' which will enable readers to be their own guru in less than two months!http://www.megaupload.co-m/?d=PXCFATY0
"Enlightenment" Spiritual Oil Painting by k Madison Moore
2008-05-17 01:11:00 EnlightenmentSpiritual Oil Painting1 x 16 x 18 inchesclick for close viewSOLDCommissionFor Commission projects:Certified original Art copyright MkM 2008 k Madison MooreA Painting A Day Objets d' Art by k. Madison Moore
The Truth About Spiritual Enlightenment
2008-05-12 07:00:00 A quick word of caution before we begin. This article is for serious students of spiritual truth only. The traditional orthodox Christian reading this, or the atheists out there, or those with strong unrelenting opinions and perceptions, or those with strong likes and dislikes, or those who automatically think society is based on truth, or ...
By: Resources zone
A Oneness Cloud Experiment That Leads to Enlightenment
2008-05-12 07:00:00 What we’re going to do is purposefully make a cloud in the sky a particular shape (square), or make it disappear altogether, with nothing more than focus and intention. The entire purpose of this experiment is to help us fully realize that everybody and everything is an interconnected One, and that nothing exists separate from ...
By: Resources zone
Silent Thoughts - Lighting up our Heart
2008-05-10 06:31:00 English Translation Only by first lighting up our heart can we inspire others to do the same Original Mandarin Version ?????????? ????????? Deimos Analyzes - For Non-Bloggers Religiously speaking, if one wants to preach others, one must first preach oneself. Generally speaking, if one wants to cheer up someone who is not in a very good mood, one must first be in a ...
Three commands for Subversion enlightenment
2008-05-07 03:08:00 Mastering the art of command line jujitsu is something every developer (regardless of OS) should strive for. While OS UIs are becoming more and more slick and helpful tools are abundant, possessing the ability to drop into a console and efficiently knock something out (find . -iname *.java | xargs egrep -i “todo” anyone?) has ...
By: Test Early
Silent Thoughts - Grateful Heart
2008-05-04 18:00:00 English Translation If we always face all people and situations with a grateful heart, we will be happy and at peace every day Original Mandarin Version ???????? ???? ???????? Deimos Analyzes - For Non-Bloggers To follow word by word what is preached in this silent thought would look like practicing some religious belief, or at least that is how Deimos sees it. How is it ...
Reality vs the multiculturalist left: One’s enlightenment before the
2008-04-28 13:20:00 Mark Steyn provides interesting reading this morning: The Australian columnist Pamela Bone died of cancer this weekend. She was a feminist, an atheist and most of the other -ists you might expect from a western woman of her general disposition (she was a recipient, among many other awards, of something called the “UN media peace prize”). But in her final years she came to see that the Islamization of the west represented a profound challenge to everything she believed in. It began fairly tentatively. She seems almost to be thinking aloud in this piece for the Melbourne Age on the British subjects born and bred who self-detonated on the London Tube: In Melbourne the day after September 11, Muslim students at a state high school danced on the desks with glee. What are these young people being taught by their decent and law-abiding parents? Literature being sold at a store attached to a Brunswick mosque tells Muslims they should “hate and take as enemies” Jews,...
By: BitsBlog
Silent Thoughts - True Faith
2008-04-23 18:00:00 English Translation When one has true faith, one will not go wrong on the journey of life Original Mandarin Version ??????? ???????? ?????? Deimos Analyzes - For Non-Bloggers This kinda implies that if one has a strong belief system in a certain belief or religion, one would not walk the dark side? A bit discriminating towards those “free thinker” type of people, don’t you ...
Silent Thoughts - Say goodbye to yesterday
2008-04-17 18:00:00 English Translation Let us say goodbye to yesterday with gratitude and greet the new day with reverence Original Mandarin Version ???????? ???????? Deimos Analyzes - For Non-Bloggers Deimos thinks that this particular silent thought is trying to imply that - time, once passed, can never turn back? Whatever has happened - be it a good thing or a bad thing, already happened ...
Enlightenment
2008-04-14 21:28:00 Enlightenment means literally aligning to the Energy of my Source. And genius is only about focusing. Law of Attraction takes care of everything else. Physical humans often want to make enlightenment about finding some process and moving through the process that has been pre-described. But true enlightenment is moving to the rhythm of the internal ...
Enlightenment
2008-04-14 19:15:00 It?s funny how a having a blog online where I talk myself through my own spirituality can inspire people to write to me an provoke great intellectual email chats. I have had some really great email exchanges with interesting people from all over the world about religion, tarot, or spirituality in general. I am always ...
Boating Forums- Where Discussion Leads To Enlightenment!
2008-04-12 07:00:00 The first question that hits you when you are asked to start using a forum exclusively for people interested in boating, is that, why join a one? The spirit of boating cannot be kept alive if there were no one to actually discuss about it and try to enhance it. The members in those forums ...
By: Resources zone
Boating Forums- Where Discussion Leads To Enlightenment!
2008-04-12 07:00:00 The first question that hits you when you are asked to start using a forum exclusively for people interested in boating, is that, why join a one? The spirit of boating cannot be kept alive if there were no one to actually discuss about it and try to enhance it. The members in those forums ...
By: Resources zone
Boating Forums- Where Discussion Leads To Enlightenment!
2008-04-12 00:00:00 The first question that hits you when you are asked to start using a forum exclusively for people interested in boating, is that, why join a one? The spirit of boating cannot be kept alive if there were no one to actually discuss about it and try to enhance it. The members in those forums ...
The Path to Enlightenment is Through the Goat Pen
2008-04-09 00:01:00 Editor?s note: Jen Humphrey, a student participating in the blog project by Professor Simran Sethi?s Media and the Environment course at the University of Kansas, shares a personal reflection on farm...
By: Green Options
Enlightenment Thumbnail/Transform Utility Updated
2008-04-05 02:39:00 Observers (all two of you) may have noticed a flurry of commits in the systhread cvs repo at SourceForge. The enlightenment transform utility etu and libpcab based pktutils underwent major changes over the last two weeks.
By: Server Tales
Enlightenment Thumbnail/Transform Utility Updated
2008-04-05 02:39:00 Observers (all two of you) may have noticed a flurry of commits in the systhread cvs repo at SourceForge. The enlightenment transform utility etu and libpcab based pktutils underwent major changes over the last two weeks.
By: Server Tales
ArtSunday: ??to see and be amazed?: The LIFE and Times of Technology in Ame
2008-03-30 17:06:00 Part one in a series. During its 36-year run, LIFE Magazine traversed a period of technological innovation and peril unsurpassed in the recorded history of humanity. As the first issue was released in November of 1936, a resurgent Germany was constructing the most awesome war machine the world had yet seen, a development that literally threatened the very future of the hemisphere. LIFE?s final issue went to press at the end of 1972, roughly three weeks after NASA?s last manned mission to the moon, Apollo 17, closed the books on a program that proved — theoretically, at least — that humanity was not inevitably bound to this planet. The technological distance between these two moments is mind-boggling. German engineers working on the development of rocketry could perhaps, just barely, envision a trip to the moon, but for most everybody else such an idea remained the stuff of pulp science fiction. Nonetheless, human technology did cover this distance, and it did so in t...
My sons enlightenment
2008-03-27 10:38:00 Please pray for son who tried to end his life last Monday Mar 24. We thank praise and thank GOD that we got there on time that he was given a second chance to live. - Nancy from Canada
By: Prayers Online
Solas Lights Bring "Global" Enlightenment
2008-03-27 04:31:00 Manchester-based designer Cj O'Neill melds the simplicity of a circle with organic elements to make richly atmospheric statements in ambient lighting. Technorati Tags: |
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