---To my great surprise, my group leader at Humboldt 70 (Tom Winquist, an initiate of MMY), already had a dossier on me in which it correctly revealed that I had been initiated into Eckankar. Whoops!....a serious strike against me from the get-go. A few years later, I got fired from SIMS for talking about Guru Maharaji and other non-TMO teachers. I was also threatened with legal action by the official TMO lawyer. In my naivete, I wrongly assumed that people would embrace information in general; and then formulate some conclusion on their own. Nope...this would be like spreading knowledge of natural supplements among a group of pharmaceutical drug pushers.
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "abutilon108" <abutilon108@> > wrote: > > > > I signed the pledge much later on and I'm quite sure the wording was > > different. It seems not everyone would have signed the same pledge, > > although as I remember what you were agreeing to was pretty much the > same. > > > > > The later versions, like the one I signed, had the phrase that said > the movement could seek financial "equitable relief" if you spilled > any of the beans. Nice to have a little legal threat along with the > spiritual stuff before you get your mantras! No copies were allowed > to be kept of any legal document I ever signed in the movement. Do > they still have you sign legal waivers before courses? > > They did something really odd right before we became teachers. They > had us hold our movement "file" which we were not allowed to look > into. But we had to hold it. It was supposed to contain every > course we were on, all recommendation letters etc. I wonder what > that was all about? Perhaps it was a message "we have a file on you, > so be cool MF". But I suspect they were following the letter rather > than the spirit of some disclosure law. Very interesting, does anyone > know what that was about? >
