--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote:
> > May I ask about your TM background? I'm in every way a longtime Ex. > How did you get here? Through the net. > <snip> > I do wonder a bit, BTW, about his assertion that the TMO > insiders all read and ponder FFL. I am too long away, and have never been on that administrative level. > So much of what goes > on here isn't even remotely relevant to their concerns. I know that they keep lists of people, for example TM teachers, and carefully screen in what relationship they are to the TM movement. They have a file of everyone, who once was a teacher, and probably the same about sidhas. According to this, they determine if somebody is eligable for courses or not. They would know somebody is an indepenend teacher for example, if somebody is associated with other teachers, etc, as far as they can get hold of such information. I don't know exactly, how they gather information, but if they are somewhat similar to any secret service, it would be obvious to screen the internet, to look at the facebook sites, to look at forums like this. It is also clear since some time now, that they consciously use the internet now, to post comments to journals, use twitter a lot for announcing movement events etc. For them to screen a forum like this would be essential in several ways: See what's going on in public opinion, it of course doesn't mean they react to it directly..But also to keep watch at their 'sheep', to see who is critical, or negative, to update their black lists. I also don't think, that top decission makers read it all directly, I am sure that Bevan wants to keep a distance about all the negative stuff that is written about him, but there are enough others who can do that IOW i don't know if and how the observe this forum, it would be logical to do it on some level, but I know they are keeping files about everyone, and that there is more in those files than just your last movement contact. > One of them would have to go through and pick out only > the posts of TMO interest and then circulate them to the > others. Search functions exist. I have noticed that some Purushas spend quite some time on the net. That may be completely private, but there are no frontiers in the net, I guess there is a natural curiosity as well. > Possible, I suppose, but I'm not sure it's all > that likely. When has the conservative element, in > particular, in the TMO ever cared about what a bunch of > renegades think? Just to know who those renegades are.
