Repealing TM's anti-saint policies it seems has terribly strong parallels to
the context of the 18th Amendment 'Repeal Movement' in the 20th Century. Take
a look at this short piece on Pauline Sabin of the movement to repeal the 18th
amendment: A theme of the undoing of the 'dry's' from early was their own
self-destruct of unbending policies in the face of a reality. Sort of like
TM's movement administration trying to restrict and prohibit its own people
from visiting other saints and holy people and only relying on its own TM
teachers and consultants.
As comparison critique this is a thought provoking documentary on Pauline Sabin
and the movement to repeal the 18th Amendment, Have a look:
http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Baseball-The-Tenth-Inning-1199/episodes/Women-of-PROHIBITION-Pauline-Sabin-34763
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> > > > > > Yeah, you say this NOW, now that it's come out that
> > > > > > he is married and has been for many years. But I wonder
> > > > > > what excuses you make for him lying about it for so long,
> > > > > > and to so many?
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > That is a really tough question. That could easily be someone's
scholarly thesis topic alone on Fairfield. How meditators have dealt with the
deceit and moral dissonance of their leadership. That became more directly
addressed in a series of posts by a range of old meditators writing on FFL
between Christmas and New Year's a month ago. It was really interesting to read
how different people resolved their relationship with the Tmo.
> > > > >
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote:
>
> Back then it seems the problems were more simply over the money, fund-raising
> technique and the anti-saint policy that were driving people away.
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> >
> > Even Back then there were yet some lot of 'unknowns' like the women to be
> > discovered.
> >
> > > > Surveying the old [meditating] community, The old survey that was done
> > > > is archived here in the FFL files section. It is real interesting
> > > > trend-reading to look at now. Things were in motion then even back in
> > > > the '90's and early '00's and yet still unresolved now.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Look in the 'files' section under the folder "FFL and Fairfield
> > > Community" about surveys. To be able to read the survey results here
> > > you got to be a registered yahoo groups FFL member to open the files.
> > >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote:
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> > > >
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote:
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> > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote:
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> > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote:
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> > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote:
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> > > > > > > > I'm very glad that Rajaram is a householder.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Are you glad that he lied about it to pretty much
> > > > > > > everyone in the TM movement for many years, including
> > > > > > > his close friends like John Hagelin?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > It makes the TMO more human somehow, more of the world
> > > > > > > > with all its joys and sorrows, more connected to life
> > > > > > > > with all its light and dark.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Yeah, you say this NOW, now that it's come out that
> > > > > > > he is married and has been for many years. But I wonder
> > > > > > > what excuses you make for him lying about it for so long,
> > > > > > > and to so many?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > That is a really tough question. That could easily be someone's
> > > > > > scholarly thesis topic alone on Fairfield. How meditators have
> > > > > > dealt with the deceit and moral dissonance of their leadership.
> > > > > > That became more directly addressed in a series of posts by a range
> > > > > > of old meditators writing on FFL between Christmas and New Year's a
> > > > > > month ago. It was really interesting to read how different people
> > > > > > resolved their relationship with the Tmo.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Surveying the [meditating] community.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm betting there is at least one PhD thesis waiting to happen around
> > > > > this [morality] topic or at least a scholarly paper. It would proly
> > > > > be timely anyway to have a new survey of this done independently now
> > > > > for the benefit of the meditating community. Back about 15 years
> > > > > ago some smart people created an independent survey of the Fairfield
> > > > > meditating community then. Seems morality was the same problem then
> > > > > it is today with leadership.. A new survey enlarged around these
> > > > > topics of moral complexity could be telling with some evident policy
> > > > > recommendations particularly for how things are going now.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Surveying the old [meditating] community, The old survey that was done
> > > > is archived here in the FFL files section. It is real interesting
> > > > trend-reading to look at now. Things were in motion then even back in
> > > > the '90's and early '00's and yet still unresolved now.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Look in the 'files' section under the folder "FFL and Fairfield Communty"
> > > about surveys. To be able to read the survey results here you got to be
> > > a registered yahoo groups FFL member to open the files.
> > >
> >
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