--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "I am the eternal" <l.shad...@...> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:29 PM, ruthsimplicity > <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "I am the eternal" > > > > Why don't you start a thread of your stories and experiences? > > Please? > > > > I have heard from my contacts in FF that many on the IAA seem > > to be very depressed, but I can't pry too much for specifics. > > I'll think on starting a thread about my experiences and those of > others on IA. I've already received some hostile reception here > from someone who suggested very strongly that I go with going into > silence on IA this time because of my postings. As in shut up.
Get used to it if you choose to think for yourself. I would add my voice to Ruth's in urging you to continue to post your impressions, because as I've said before I think you do it very well. There is a kind of Garrison Keillor or Will Rogers compassion in the way you say things that I find wonderful. You may say some things that some here don't want said, but I have never perceived any meanness or "evil intent" in anything you have said. The very fact that you continue to GO on the IA courses speaks volumes. They obviously have some value for you, value that transcends all of the "small shit" you must endure to receive it. > I guess my recounting of the Israeli antics weren't entirely > understood. This guy was blasting away the very excited emails > for hours a day while in silence. You develop a great deal of > pent up emotional energy on IA and the energy blowing off of > people is something you can feel as you pass them in the lobby > of the dome. I can certainly identify with this, not from the IA course, but from large TM residence courses I've been on or taught in the past. I recently mentioned the old Asilomar Christmas courses in California. Talk about "emotional energy blowing off of people!" Marriages ended on those courses. And the participants were just doing one extra round in the morning and the evening, no siddhis. > Depression? An amazing amount. But think about it. This is self > selection here. Until the international stipends were cancelled > you had pretty much huddled masses from all over the US, (mostly > the Eurozone) and Canada. People who find the motivation to give > up their lives to come to FF and live in a trailer for months at > a time trying to make a meager stipend last through the month are > a special sort. See? This is the compassion thang I was talking about. This is an important point, and one that you chose to include. That's not "evil intent," that's balance. > There are some having a ball free spirits I admire for their > innocence and stability then there are the many who appear to > have not been dealt a full hand in life, the hangers on. I > don't know if the clearing I heard about last year has been > implemented. I doubt it. There was rumor amongst Dome spies > (at least ones suspected to be such) that those people who > hadn't hopped in years were going to have their stipends > cancelled. I feel for these guys. So do I. I do not share their belief in the TM- siddhis and their value, but hey!, they paid their money and they learned just like everyone else. If the siddhis are not working for them as expected, telling them to take a hike sounds a lot like removing subjects from a scientific study because they're not showing the results they're "supposed to." > Mind you I only know about one dome. Word spreads around the > dome in waves that travels almost faster than the speed of sound. Isn't that amazing? Anyway, from my perspective, please keep filling us in on your perspective. Some of us appreciate hearing it.
