I took the sidhis in summer 1977 and was in the third such citizen group. We all had to do prep courses depending on how long we had been meditating. I had to take 8 weeks of prep, which my MIU staff credit covered, because I had only been meditating for 2 years.
As I said, we were the third citizen group and we were told that we wouldn't be able to take all the sidhis at once. Lot of folks had quit jobs, sold homes, etc. and were quite upset. So our group was the last group to be able to take all the sidhis all at once. After that they continued to be taught in 2 week blocks but there had to be a break between blocks. On Thursday, February 6, 2014 1:31 PM, "authfri...@yahoo.com" <authfri...@yahoo.com> wrote: The two-month rounding course you mention, as I recall, gave the sutras after a significant period of just rounding, so the first part of it was, in effect, a prep course. Lots of people couldn't take two months off, though, so they broke the rounding part up into shorter courses you could take one at a time. << No, they weren't - at least I am pretty sure they weren't. At first I believe anyone with the cash could go through a two month rounding course and get all the sutras that M was then teaching since the invisibility and understanding the language of animals sutras had been removed from even the governors course cuz of heavy unstressing. After the unstressing that the regular "citizen sidhas" experienced on those initial citizen sidha courses then M put the skids on and required the first prep courses but you may be right. If any former teachers here who taught those courses remember when the preps were instituted and under what circumstances I would appreciate knowing. >> -------------------------------------------- On Thu, 2/6/14, authfriend@... <authfriend@...> wrote: > >Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Marshy's Marketing >To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >Date: Thursday, February 6, 2014, 7:05 PM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >FWIW, Michael, I >believe prep courses of various durations were required from >the beginning for ordinary meditators to take the TM-Sidhis. >Over time the requirements grew less and less >stringent. ><< Due to >intense and ongoing unstressing on the part of MANY >participants of the new program, Marshy announces that from >now on, one has to have OTHER courses, the TM Sidhi >Preparatory courses to qualify for the TM-Sidhis themselves. >Odd that an enlightened man couldn't have foreseen that >happening. > >More money is taken in through the TM -Sidhi Prep courses. >>>
