Vaj, I haven't seen the film. But, yeah, the brainwashing at MSAE was there, but not extra-there. It was about the same as any other parochial school with an agenda to push besides reading, writing and arithmetic. Maharishi, Pope, same deal. I was okay with it, because I actively engaged all my children about philosophy -- regularly, daily. I wasn't allowing any movement creep to abuse them for not being sycophants. We'd talk about how those "who are not yet enlightened" can make mistakes and that we have to put up with this until everyone evolves out of their pettiness." Like that.
It was only after decades that it became impossible to spin the fact that all the dweebs and cretins and power-mongers and evangelists who had "holed up in movement niches" were NOT evolving any faster and all the results of TM for all of us were results from evolving merely due to the normal aging processes. Period. Try waking up to that and having four kids you've mindfully put into the system. Well, they all survived it, but I can't look them in the eye about it. Shoulda shoulda shoulda....that's me. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote: > > > On Dec 7, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Duveyoung wrote: > > > What was I thinking? I mean, right there in the first lecture, the > > guy giving it was obviously not a golden child striding the world > > and solving problems everywhere. He was a wimp, reading out of the > > Science of Being and the Art of Living, and an obvious lover of > > cucumber sandwiches. Yeah, whoa, what a glorious spiritual leader > > this guy was. Gunna take me to the promise land. > > > > I bought it. > > > Edg I thought of you when I watched David Wants to Fly for the first > time and they showed the kids at the Marshy School of the Age of > Enlightenment singing some sing-song SCI lullaby. I had to wonder > your reaction when you saw it - or was that something (this > brainwashing of the innocents) that you were already well aware of? >
