Quite a recollection, Rick. Thanks for sourcing this. I have a few questions at the bottom.
Rick Archer posted Shannon Dickson's words: > > My feeling on seeing how things devolved from > 1972 through 1975 is that MMY had gone through > a kind of mini-breakdown, possibly from the > combination of the demands of having to recreate > the juice for the movement every few years along > with the financial challenges, the shock from the > Jennifer thing, as well as the trouble around > Shantinand in India... who knows what was going > through his mind? Certainly, he was in > charge of his faculties and it seemed more along > the lines of a bit of dark night of the soul period > for him, while the new inwardly focused movement > was concocted with the Siddhis at the pinnacle > along with the focus on locking in the TB's loyalty > through a combination of engendering a feeling > of specialness (including taking over their very > own town!) and being on a chosen mission to save > the world reinforced with the fear of being > ostracized and screwed karmically if one didn't > toe the party line; typical classic cult indoctrination, > even if it was more subtlety and deftly handled > in the TM example during those days, compared with > other cults. What was "the trouble around Shantinand in India"? Who are the "TB's"? I would say "true believers," but I don't get how that meaning works with "taking over their very own town." It would be vastly entertaining for me to read a lucid account of how the period before the mid-1970's differed from the period after. Shannon talks about it a little, but I'd welcome some elaboration. - Patrick Gillam To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
