The two FFL spiritual virgins posting to each other! Like two boys in puberty pretending to be men. Cute!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote: > > > > You know the sad thing? It doesn't matter if the TM-Sidhi thing was > > when they went officially crazy (I too believe that was the major > > turning point). It doesn't matter if the research is bullshit. It' > > doesn't matter that Mahesh was never trained as a guru or shishya. It > > doesn't matter that he was making up it all along. > > > > What matters is that they've been able to keep up appearances. Their > > websites still look cool: esp. if you are wealthy or upper middle > > class person who gets lots of very nice catalogues. Their advertising > > looks on par with such high-end product lines, and thus geared to the > > Oprahs and the ladder climbers of this world. It speaks in their > > advert. language. And it doesn't matter if Mahesh was molesting his > > students: he maintained an impeccable stage persona, complete with > > make-up. etc. and that wonderful silk attire. > > > > And the most important part is that they have super-saturated the web > > with this air-brushed image and they've pushed themselves to the top > > of the search engines. If I search for anything remotely related to > > TM or TM org products - or just plain meditation - I'm very likely to > > have an advert. link to MUM.edu. > > > > They've played and paid the game of spiritual materialism better than > > anyone else. So that may be all it takes. People love their > appearances. > > Thanks for your reply, Vaj. I cannot disagree with your assessment. One > thing that never ceases to amaze me is how people can cling to beliefs > and work tirelessly to preserve the appearance that they are true, long > after other more reasonable people would have realized that they were > not. > > But for me the "tipping point" into this world of clinging to > appearances was not the introduction of the TM-Sidhi program itself but > the rebranding of it in terms of self importance. That, essentially, is > what the shift from "You perform the Sidhis as a way to realize your own > enlightenment" to "You perform the Sidhis as a kind of sacred duty, > because by doing so you become One Of The Most Important People On > Earth, one of the select few, the holy thud of whose butt-bounces can > bring about world peace and an Age Of Enlightenment" was. It was a > radical shift into the world of self importance and the amplification of > individual ego. > > And the more sense of self importance one has about one's spiritual > practices, the greater the tendency to cling to them. An *association* > has been created, linking the practices to the myth that YOU are one of > the most important people on earth. YOUR woo woo is just so much more > woo than other peoples'. They may meditate, but you perform the > *Sidhis*, and that's just so much better, doncha know...more woo. Once > you've bought into this -- being one of the most woo individuals on the > planet -- it's tough to let go of it. Especially if this sense of self > importance is reinforced twice a day by being in a group of people who > believe that they are equally important, and equally woo. > > So the clinging to appearances doesn't surprise me; that's just human > nature. The surprise, as you suggest, is that those doing the clinging > have been so successful for so long *at* preserving the appearance of > rationality, despite the reality of their daily lives. They still sell > the myth of "20 minutes twice a day" while living a reality of "several > hours twice a day, and only in a group of people as special as I am," > never noticing that they're being hypocrites by doing so. I think it's > the "never noticing" that makes the TMO PR engine so effective. The > people who write it really believe it. They believe it so thoroughly > that they don't even recognize that their own lives and lifestyles make > what they're writing a lie. >
