--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "richardatrwilliamsdotus" <richard@> > > wrote: > > <snip> > > [Vaj wrote:] > > > > > > Prof. Sawyer was expelled from the TMO for daring to > > > > > > explore other meditation methods. > > > > > > > > > > > From what I've read, Dana Sawyer is not a graduate of > > > > > M.U.M., and his name does not appear on the TMO list of > > > > > approved teachers or lecturers... > > > > > > > > authfriend: > > > > The names of teachers who have left the TMO generally > > > > do not appear on such lists. (Not sure Sawyer was a > > > > teacher, but that's irrelevant anyway.) > > > > > > > Well, I would think someone has to be some sort of TMO > > > insider, in order to write a good report on the 'TMO'. > > > > I'm in the middle of watching Rick's Batgap interview > > with Sawyer, and in connection with the issue of how > > to stay engaged when one is doing routine work, Sawyer > > just mentioned having to memorize the checking notes. > > So he was enough of an "insider" either to have been a > > TM teacher or to have taken checker training. > > One thing about that comment: "I'm glad I hadn't heard that > before I was memorizing the checking notes...." > > hmmm... I seem to recall that checking was often part of > the TM checker's training, at least in the 1974ish timeframe...
Lawson, what are you talking about? Why do you think I mentioned the comment? Why do you think I said, "So he was enough of an 'insider' either to have been a TM teacher or to have taken checker training"? In any case, further on in the interview Sawyer talks about his experience teaching TM, and Rick has confirmed he was a teacher, so there really isn't anything to be disputed. Willytex was, as he frequently is, just wrong.