I'm studying charisma, I guess, or at least the manufacture of a sense of charisma by consciously-adopted body language, tones of voice, and rhetorical structures. For example, posturing. Posturing is an incredibly effective method of eliciting opinions from people who hold strong convictions about things. If you can sense what might piss someone off, then ask them that directly, they'll get pissed off, and when people get pissed off they tend to drop whatever posture they're holding and actually spill some genuine opinions. You have to be able to immediately pull back and present a reasonable, non-posturing side or everyone just thinks you're a twat.
Pulling on and off personalities and ways of interacting with other people is a skill that a good politician must have, and I also argue, it's a skill that Mr Rawat has. He is able to put on exactly the image, down to the tiniest nuance of facial expression and body language, that he knows the members of his audience need to see every time to maintain the whatever it is that they're there for. No small feat, but then again, he is giving 100-odd speeches a year, and is constantly reinventing the methodology and the terminology, so I imagine he gets lots of practise.
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I stand by that. I watched a video earlier today, just to see. He says things like "within you is blah blah blah", and then neatly connects the audience to himself, as if to say, 'i'm not just saying this, I feel it too', by saying "within me is the blah blah blah", stressing 'me' much more than he stressed 'you'.
Here, we can extract two meanings from 'within me is the blah blah blah':
- 'within me [also] is the blah blah blah', as in 'i am just like you'; this meaning is caused by the overall rhetoric, via the sentences preceding.
- 'within me [only] is the blah blah blah'; ths meaning is caused by the excessive stress on the word 'me'.
The two meanings exist side by side. If questioned, the premie might point to 1) as an explanation. If pressed on the possibility of 2), the premie might say that that's not what Mr Rawat is saying, because it contrasts with the sentence before.It's very slick, and I maintain, to a brain that is not looking out distinctly for periods when he connects the experience to himself, it's a very subtle thing to spot, which may be one of the reasons why premies don't.
I asked TPRF directly why they had such strong copyright in their EULA, specifically, about waiving fair-use rights, on the Keys. They said they'd refer my question deeper into the organisation and get back to me within a week - this was yesterday. I'll let youse all know what they say if you like, or if it's interesting.
If one got a hold of one of the Keys videos and dissected it in this way, publicly, we could potentially have some intelligent debate from both sides about it. But the violation of the EULA would possibly lead to TPRF (I hear Elan Vital is being dissolved) firing off cease and desist emails.
