Thanks Hilltop!  Yes, that was all there, right in front of us, all the time!  It's funny how we see what we WANT to see, and DON'T see what we don't want to see.  And of course there are plenty of people in the world who know how to use that in us (me, I should say!).  Illusionists, scammers, con-artists, now-you-see-it, now-you-don't people.  I hate that I was so vulnerable to this--but I also know I had things to learn!  I'm learning!

I'm reminded of an event that was a big drip for me--and the beginning of the end as far as gullibility goes.  It was a local event, somewhere along in the late 90's, but some bigwig came from EV (can't remember her name now) who was giving us some sort of presentation about EV and propagation and the latest tactics, and all that--but what I REMEMBER about that event was the number of times this lady kept saying EV was NOT a corporation, and Maharaji (as he was still known as then) was NOT a CEO.  I wondered who could possibly be saying that it was, or he was, and that of course was in fact a red flag. Was that the real message this lady had come to convey?  It woke me up a bit, and the questioning continued until I was no longer able to buy the nonsense.  Reason prevailed.Yeah!!!!!!

~shelagh