On Tuesday, Keira Knew:
Besides love, we were also very deftly moved to "trust". We were to only trust the master, certainly not ourselves. Those that had a high trust factor in their selves moved up the ranks quickly and then that trust was gutted by the absolute certainty that we could NOT indeed, trust ourselves. If we loved the master, we must trust HIM. The only way to really return to that state where one could trust oneself was through the Master. This to me was the essence of how strong, independent people such as there were in morningland, were controlled utterly.
Many of us loved Donato and or Sri and we TRUSTED them, even over ourselves. So even though Donato SAID don't trust me, trust yourself.... all the activities in ML led to NOT trusting yourself. The more we learned,the more we learned we did not know (which is pretty standard and not necessarily wrong). HOWEVER at that point, dependancy for truth was switched from our OWN knowingness to the Master or a Gopi. That is what undid me I think and I recall quite clearly the night I left, simply deciding I knew what I knew and what I knew led me to believe I needed to get out of there!
On Monday, Al / Ishvara Das Indicated:
Many disciples report sharing Sri's visions during the "Battle of Kurukshetra" and give her visions more weight because of the fact that it was shared by so many.
I think that this is indicative of a healthy mind that you can see what another is describing. Honestly, there is nothing unique about this. While I was working in the radio biz, we called this the "theater of the mind". We induced images in people's heads all the time, daily, hourly, on the hour. : )
My favorite was a little spot that I ripped off from a Chicago radio station and modified for UC Irvine's student station. I had Fashion Island have some sort of disaster in which the solution was to fill the Back Bay and Newport Bay with whipped topping, ice cream, cherries, etc... it was an elegant use of potent words and sound effects all with a strikingly visual response on the part of the listener.
The end of the spot ended up with something like "try THAT on television!"
So, I think that giving Sri's visions any more weight because you saw (or felt) them too is misguided. Watch your visual experience with any of the better radio commercials. You do see them. How could you NOT see what Sri was seeing?
-al.
On Thursday, Lawrence / Natron Ironiced:
...Yes, I do remember parts of this [Battle of Kurukshetra] and what Sri was doing at the time was staring right at the three layered pyramid and the mirror that was at the center of the alter in the Escondido temple. This was the moment when Sri went into her psychotic paranoid confabulation rant.
Later on, I always thought that was funny, staring into a mirror and seeing demons...