--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_...@...> wrote: > > Guess what superpower she would like to have? > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyjXr1hNU_I&feature=related
Gotta comment on this because John's "take" on it reveals IMO a great deal about the mindset -- and the reality -- of TMers and the TM movement. More than *any* spiritual organization or movement I have encountered, I have found that TMer are the most hung up on "gaining powers." It's as if, as a group, they feel so insignificant and power- less that the thing they want the most is to be considered significant and powerful. And how did they choose to achieve this? By sign- ing on as followers of a cult leader who told them (as long as they kept giving him money) how signif- icant and powerful they were. While demonstrating clearly by who he chose to have around him as his closest students that the only people *he* valued were those who were *already* significant and/or powerful, and from home he could suck either publicity or money. The ultimate example of this, of course, are the Rajas. The rest? The vast majority who became his followers, in search of significance and power? He relegated them to the lowest levels of his organization so as to constantly remind them how insignificant and powerless they really were. There is a certain irony in this. Realizing it and laughing at how much of a doofus one was to fall for it is probably a greatera spiritual attainment than any siddhi.
