Well you know what Buck, you may be right, I never considered that the regular practice of the TM and TM Siddhi Programme increased and improved my creative intelligence to the point I was able to see the whole TMO and Marshy himself were full of it. All praise to the Unified Field! TMSP enabled me to see its a crock! -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 1/15/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 4:30 PM An apostate of course is different from someone just being a critic. The critic, who as a satisfied and regular practitioner may offer some criticism as in a state of critique. Such critique is then also quite different in grade from those others being more negative and then again from states of pernicious negativity advocacy, like those people who are both quitters and haters in method. That becomes a pretty clear sign of someone who has fallen in to TM apostasy. We should be mindful and clear about this as we filter our reading and interacting with our fellow community members here. That is justly good and sound subtle spirituality. Yes, like considering the source of posts I certainly sort my incoming mail accordingly. Om we should have, we could have better sorted the FFL membership here accordingly from way back with more aggressive moderation against the apostaic spam of outright apostasy here. Posting on FFL should be held a privilege and not just some right. Saha Nav, -Buck, a Satisfied Customer by the Practise of Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation Programme Yes, that 'Disaffiliation'; Friends, for any of us we certainly know an apostate when we see one. For instance, with The Science of Creative Intelligence of which TM is the practical application. Seeing as US jurisprudence judges SCI to be a Religion it would not be a stretch to say that people who would renounce TM just by dropping or quitting the practice of said meditation and who then promote publicly against TM with an advocacy of negativity are in fact in an apostate state: apostate, as apostates in apostasy. Q.E.D., TM Apostates. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote: As I'm pretty sure both Xeno and Barry know, apostasy is not limited to defection from a religion. One can become an apostate from any previous loyalty. > 'Apostasy is the formal disaffiliation from or abandonment or renunciation of a religion by a person. One who commits apostasy is known as an apostate.' > > As I never was the member of any religion, I cannot ever be correctly accused of apostasy. As the TM org claims it is not a religion, so no one can ever be correctly accused for disafilliating or abandoning TM as apostasy (unless of course the TM org is lying about that claim). It's an NPD Thang, Xeno. If you've convinced yourself that the POV held by your self is "true," and that any POV that contradicts it is is "untrue," then you get to make up the rules. There is absolutely *no problem* with declaring someone an apostate from an organization that you declare is not a religion. :-) It's a lot like having an argument in which there is only one participant -- the person trying to start the argument -- and then declaring one's self the "winner." :-) Narcissistic Personality Disorder really *does* explain almost all of the aberrant behavior we see on FFL. I would suggest that this mental disorder is the true legacy of Maharishi's teachings. :-)