Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00403)

>How could you and your skeptical group in New York see him in his
>true light without neither coming to him nor taking seriously the
>*positive* accounts of numerous sincere reliable seekers who has
>been privileged to live close around him? How can you as a researcher
>refuse to enter into the situation to really understand your subject?
>And what constitute *proof* of genuineness of his phenomenon for you?
>Unlikely to be the number of witnesses because millions are not enough.
>If it is quality of witnesses then what are the qualifications? But if

>*control condition* is a major prerequisite then you may have to
>wait forever since he, like any true adept, will never permit it.
>
>Visanu

Visanu,

I think the reason I might commit errors in my judgment under these
circumstances is the sheer number of human beings we are faced with on
earth today. We know (I can't even imagine) say 1,000 people or 10,000
people in our experience. That is a very small percentage of those who
live. Do you ever wonder what those we have not met are like? I think it
would be possible to know a set of individuals, some closely, that
influence us to think along certain lines of validity. And right next door
to us, our neighbor, could know a different set of individuals creating
other valid choices in them. If there are 5 billion people on the earth and
we know a few thousand, how are we to eliminate a random element of error
in our judgments?

Brenda