Dug, I think it is time to take the sandwitch board approach. If you can't get on campus, perhaps you can parade along Hwy 1 (?) with a message addressed to the rajas. Or better yet, just put John 10-13. Wasn't that the date of the Watershed meeting when Hagelin made that great quote you keep referring to?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "TurquoiseB" <turquoiseb@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@> wrote: > > > > > > > > There doesn't appear to be anyone in the TMO leadership > > > > who can re-assess what "protect the purity of the teaching" > > > > means, so they must default to a fundamentalist view wrt > > > > all the rules and regulations that were in place when > > > > Maharishi departed. Unfortunate. > > > > > > The issue of the attendance in the Domes has more of a > > > practical value and less of the big issue of "purity of > > > the teaching". It simply has to do with that noone doing > > > the TMSP there should be exposed to that the fellow next > > > to you are doing some "padme hum" or whatever. > > > > > > If that started to happen the Dome-numbers would fall > > > dramatically very fast. > > > > This is the argument known in science as the > > "Cootie Contamination Effect." > > > > That's where one person performing a technique > > that does absolutely nothing is exposed to some- > > one doing another technique that does absolutely > > nothing, with the result that the first person > > starts emanating BAD Absolutely No Effect Woo > > Woo instead of Ordinary, Everyday Absolutely > > No Effect Woo Woo. Can't have that. :-) > > > > Seriously, the question of whether Nabby realizes > > how crazy he is arises. He really believes that > > ]he could get "Cooties" from someone performing > > another style of meditation. > > > > Yeah, essentially that 'cootie contamination effect' is how the tru-believer > TM-Rajas have chosen to take it and justify rejecting people from the domes. > It's unfortunate > for the dome numbers where the TM-Rajas could just as easily > simply ask that people come and practice TM and TM-siddhis > together in the domes. No, instead they have chosen to make the application > process > for practitioners a fealty test too. > > Yes, in essence the tru-believer types in rejecting folks have chosen to > follow the > 'cootie contamination effect' as essential TM doctrine in the domes. That's > the teaching. Hence they now reject more practitioners than they are > accepting of. > > -Dug in FF >
