22-11-2009, 04:11 PM
Helen Reyes Wrote:Thanks, Magda! My friends in Austria who do "Queer Studies" at an academic level are going to love that, if they don't know it already!
David, so this Omar Shah character had the power to mesmerize or do some kind of mind control on others? Does this relate to the money Mr. Williams said went missing? And how did he get onto the Nasruddin track, was that his own idea or was it suggested to him?
Sorry if this is too personal, but I think it completely relates to the topic.
It's not too personal at all Helen. Yes, you're on the right track to the extent that Dick was certainly frightened, if not terrified, of Omar and during conversations it was clear he had had a very strong hold over him. I forget whether I knew or not about the money issue. I think I probably did and that this formed part of Dick's story to me. It was almost 40 years ago now...
It was a pity that I never met Omar as I was very interested to know what made him so frightful in Dick's eyes. I am sure that it was though Omar's brother Idries, that Dick got hooked on Nasruddin in the first place. And it became an all consuming passion for him.
Quote:Also, one of Puharich's friends from Netherlands wrote a biography to try to rehabilitate him, from what accusations I'm not sure, but there it is. Interesting enough, the biographer changes the name of one rich Puharich patroness whom I'm pretty sure Puharich names by name in Sacred Mushroom. She was one the Nine, which, according to my thesis, were the transplantation of the Mahatmas/Sarmoung/Kings of Agartha/Shakyas/the ancient Indian Nine into the American paradigm of the 1950s, as aliens in UFOs, ultimately for MK purposes.
This makes perfect sense to me.
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The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14