The Master Game, de Ropp

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>From "The Master Game", Robert

De Ropp  

 

Catch #1: Talk-Think Syndrome: Talking

 or thinking about the Work

instead of doing it.

 

Catch #2: Starry-eyed Syndrome: Fanatical devotion to and belief in a teach=

er

or system to exlusion of all others.

 

Catch #3: False-Messiah Syndrome: 

Delusion that I personaly am a teacher

or savior.

 

Catch #4:  Personal-Salvation

Syndrome: Delusion that I

personally can be saved, enter

"heaven" survive death,etc.  

 

Catch #5: Sunday-Go-To-Meeting

Syndrome: Habit of making efforts

only when in presence of teacher

or with other members of group.

 

Catch #6:  Hunt-the-Guru Syndrome:

Habit of wandering from teacher to

teacher, without staying long enough

to learn anything from any of them.

 

Overdependence, the fourth example

of the wrong work of the emotional

brain, occurs in certain people,

usually high in viscerotonia or

somatotonia, when they have "found

their faith" or "consolidated their

belief". This generally means that

they have become members of some

cult or settled themselves at the

feet of some teacher to whom they

listen in starry-eyed rapture,

accepting as "gospel" any information

he chooses to offer them.

 

The phenomenon is very common in

India, where guru worship (along

with cow worship) constitutes a

national`vice. It is also common

the West, for the Christian tradition

with its emphasis on the Good

Shepherd, on sheepishness and on

the "believe and ask no questions"

attitude has always encouraged

this form of emotional overdependence.

 

The Starry-eyed Syndrome represents

one of the most frequented and most

favored cul-de-sacs on the Way. Its

popularity is understandable enough.

It results from a human craving for

certainty, for consolation, for

guidance and for obedience.

 

Despite all their big talk about

freedom, men still wish to be

slaves. They want to be told what

to do, what to wear, what to think

what to believe. This saves them

from the effort and suffering

involved in thinking for themselves.

 

Once they have hung about their

necks the lable stating their

"faith" they protect that label

with a passionate intensity and

will gladly kill anybody who dares

to question the truth of any of the

statements on the label.

 

The Starry-eyed Syndrome is a form

of the wrong function of the

emotional brain that is very hard

to correct. The ancient assertion:

"If you believe what I tell you,

you will be saved. If you don't you

will be damned," has been used for

centuries by priests of various

religions for their own profit. It

is an integral part of the world's

oldest confidence trick.

 

It is still played today and is

still profitable, though the

sophisticated members of a science

based society might be expected

to know better than to fall for

such a trick

 

 

-----love,

Karta