Wouldn't Gary be somewhat prepared for the idea that a few people
might not believe this story and think he made it all up, or used it
to bring his own ideas out into the world?
Which I think might be what James Redfield did with THE CELESTINE
PROPHECIES?
Using the story as the base for the ideas.
I haven't read in the book yet about why he kept all this from his
wife for 9 years, and how she felt when she finally found out about
it, but that, in itself seems kind of odd.
~ Carrie
--- In Disappearance_of_the_Universe@..., "Stephen"
<cracker.jack@n...> wrote:
From: "garyrrenard" <garyrrenard@y...>
To: <Disappearance_of_the_Universe@...>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 3:27 PM
Subject: [Disappearance_of_the_Universe] Re: Wishing you a mind at
peace
Hi Ossie. That other Gene and Stephen are regular posters at
another
message board called trcm on Google, which has been referred to by
some (not me) as "The Newsgroup From Hell." (I think they're
proud of
that name.)
Gene and myself most certainly do not belong to the camp that
delights in
TRCM being "The Newsgroup From Hell".
Gene actually has kind of a bet going there about how
long it will take him to get kicked out of the yahoo Disappearance
club. I guess when he posted that over there he didn't realize we
have no rules. In any case, these guys are legally opposing the
copyright of the Course, (notice that Stephen said in one of his
posts to me, "When the copyright's over..") they hate Ken Wapnick
and
they hate me because they think my book supports Ken,
Who exactly are you to assume you can make this staggeringly
judgemental
claim? A disagreement over the copyright policy is hardly the same
as
hatred. Similarly, a belief that you simply made up Arten and
Pursah is not
hatred either. This is a foolish and irresponsible statement to
make, Gary,
and it goes back to something I said yesterday about people having
an
internal problem with people who disagree with them. You've got a
big one.
Get over it. I think the copyright policy as it is now is
extremely wrong
for various reasons - and that's it. The fact that you are the
kind of
person who would label someone as 'hateful' so easily just because
they
question the party-line does not show you to be very right minded
at all.
plus I received
permission from him to use all those quotes from the Course in my
book, so I must be conspiring to get the "official" published
version
of ACIM to the world! (Shame on me.)
I do not believe there is any 'conspiracy', and you might find it a
useful
practice to adopt to find out what people really believe rather
than giving
into the temptation of projecting onto them what is most satisfying
and
tempting to the ego to believe.
I would be very happy with a situation in which FACIM/Ken simply
decided
that the copyright policy on ACIM (all versions) was the same as
that
applied to, say, the NIV Bible which is very ammicable. FACIM's
preference
for works that either flatter Ken or at least adhere to his
metaphysics even
if they don't totally agree with every theological point he makes
is plainly
wrong.
To say they have alterior
motives and axes to grind would be an understatement! They'd like
to
ruin the Yahoo club. (The ego works in mysterious ways.)
Not true.
~
Stephen
