--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Take these three things together (and perhaps a few others) and > M's constant crazy project binges make sense, IMO, and puts it > all in context. Seen in this light, his binges were a most > wonderful and creative dance over 40 years. And a wonderful path > for some who could keep up and withstand the craziness -- and > enjoy inner fruit of the whole crazy exercise.
Very nicely put. This is also what I heard once from the old-time TM teacher who used to run the Asbury Park TM facility; can't remember his name now. He was just reminiscing about his time with MMY some years previously, and he was very informal and funny, but you could sense the energy and opening he'd gotten from the experience. My stay at that hotel facility for the summer of 1995-- as a paying guest, not working for the TMO--was the closest I've ever come to getting sucked into the movement. From interacting and chatting with the teachers and lifers there, I got a really different perspective on so many of the things that had seemed totally nuts about the movement. I think I've said before here of my Asbury Park experience that the problem was that these perspectives only made sense from *within the TM worldview*. And you couldn't keep one foot in the "real world" and one foot in the TM world, because the cognitive dissonance was too great. You had to commit totally to the TM world--at which point the "real world" appeared to be just as nuts as the TM world did from the outside--and I couldn't bring myself to take that leap. I stepped back and forth from one to the other all summer and finally stepped out again for good. I'm glad I didn't decide to commit, but gee whiz, it was a fascinating, stretching experience.
