11-11-2008, 06:01 PM
[color="#0000ff Wrote:Mercy Now[/color]]
BTW..have you been to Montauk?
Nope, never been there. However, not going there was an interesting event for me. In the 1990's I studied with a rather controversial spiritual teacher. It is probably best I not identify this person, although I mentioned his name once to Stewart to gauge Stewart's reaction, and Stewart didn't respond well to this teacher's energy.
Anyways I digress--this particular spiritual teacher wanted all of his students to learn how to scuba dive--scuba diving was his latest pet project. This occurred at a time when I was beginning to become disenchanted with this particular teacher. I did the pool part of the PADI scuba training at a pool in Manhattan and was scheduled to do the open water training out at Montauk Point. However, on the day I was supposed to go out to Montauk, I developed a bad head cold. I feared that the pressure changes from scuba diving would be very uncomfortable with a cold so I decided not to go.
This--my not attending this scuba training at Montauk--marked the beginning of my drifting away from this spiritual teacher. I left shortly thereafter and never did finish the PADI training.