--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchy...@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak" <geezerfreak@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchydog@> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak" <geezerfreak@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "boo_lives" <boo_lives@> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams"
> > > > > <willytex@> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > raunchy wrote:
> > > > > > > I was on the PAC Pal Vedic Atom...
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > geezerfreak wrote:
> > > > > > > That's rich Raunch...
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > So, geezer, were you on the PAC Pal
> > > > > > Vedic Atom? Ever been to India? I
> > > > > > didn't see your name on the list of
> > > > > > TMO Teachers the last time I was in
> > > > > > Fairfield. Just askin'.
> > > > > >
> > > > > Very curious about this list of tmo teachers that you imagine
> > > > > yourself seeing in ffld willy.
> > > > >
> > > > > please tell us more about it. where is it located and who showed it
> > > > > to you. when? in fact i dare you to make one factual statement about
> > > > > how the capital operates there.
> > > > >
> > > > > wondering why you need to make stuff up about which you obviously
> > > > > know nothing about
> > > > >
> > > > You beat me to the punch here boo. Yes, Tex, do tell us all about "the
> > > > list".
> > > >
> > >
> > > Of course there is a list. For years, I've seen it at the Fairfield
> > > capitol whenever I had to get my dome badge updated. I don't have access
> > > to the list, but the folks putting the stickers of the badges sure do.
> > > Willytex wouldn't have access to a list unless he renewed dome badges or
> > > worked in the course office approving applications. Most of the folks
> > > doing that have always been women.
> > >
> > > When I was on the Vedic Atom, I worked in the course office at PAC Pal
> > > and processed tons of applications for LA Sidhas applying for WPA's and
> > > the course in India with Maharishi. We did not have a list. An
> > > unidentified male voice on the phone calling from an undisclosed location
> > > (probably Livingston Manor) from the "Council of Supreme Intelligence"
> > > had the list. They seemed to know all about the applicants I processed so
> > > I assumed they had a list. Maybe it was Willeytex I was talking to back
> > > then and I didn't even know it. How about it Willeytex, was it you I sent
> > > cookies to? If you tell me what kind they were, I'll believe it was
> > > really you that I flirted with on the phone all those many years ago.
> > >
> > You worked at Pac Pal? So did I, but that was right before terms like
> > "vedic atom" were being used. (How many parents got calls from their kid
> > announcing that they were now part of a "vedic atom?") "The Council of
> > Supreme Intelligence". So 50's SciFi!
> >
> > So what years were you there? Is that facility still there?
> >
>
> The Vedic Atom went to PAC Pal from Fairfield in late summer of 1980. We were
> there just about 2 months until Maharishi invited us to join him in India. We
> arrived in India in November just in time for Diwali. The Atom returned to
> PAC Pal the following March. We were there another two months, then we
> shipped out to Palo Alto. I made a commitment to stay with the Atom and stay
> I did, until the Fall of 1981. A whole year. It was the most ego bruising
> experience of my life. It was a combination of being in the military and
> being married to ten people at the same time. The dictum was, "Agree on
> everything." I gave it my all and it wasn't easy. Everything I felt or
> experienced with my senses as "reality" everything I thought was urgently
> important, turned out to be not important at all. The Atom ground my ego into
> toasty-o's. I had nothing left of "me" to hang on to. Resistance was futile.
> I had to go with the flow, surrender my small self and shred every remnant of
> ego or risk a battle with other egos equally attached to their reality. In a
> word, it was a lesson in detachment. It was challenging but I don't regret
> it. It just gives me some insight about how fiercely people are willing to
> defend their self-importance and hopefully I've gained some wisdom about
> picking my battles as well.
>
I'm sure others have responded by now (I'm just logging on today) but I have to
say this strikes more as an exercise in classic cult behavior ("the dictum was
agree on everything")
than a lesson in detachment.
