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In Reply to: Re: Imortant points posted by CB on January 19, 2006 at 14:35:19:
All these years I've thought that the Abrahim 'revelation' & most of the other spirit world nonsense was basically just self-delusion from the start. I mean, how difficult for Berg to visit gypsies, have the chief give him that 'knowing look' then for Berg to speak uncontrollably in tongues for 2-3 days, unable even to speak English, then put (gypsy camp) + (knowing look) + (incredible tongues) together & say that it was all related. And when you're drunk, all the walls of rational objections go down.
To think that Berg or Maria in cold blood made up this stuff, knowing it was false to begin with, is a little hard to believe. I don't think it was either black (deliberate lie) or white (real revelation), but a swamp of delusion & false conclusions & assumptions & self-inflicted mind-games all together. Yet Berg/Zerby really believed it.
To me there's a difference. Not to see what was true & what was false. It was all false. But intent. Was it self delusion or cold-blooded lie?
