---In [email protected], <mjackson74@...> wrote : > > And look what it got her - married to an egotistical whacked out adherent to > another cult (but he can act) - he certainly acts like he is a regular human > being when he mugs in front of the camera - wonder if Nicole was allowed to > do TM when Tommie was her lord and master?
Isn't it fascinating, when you think about it, that *only* with regard to a CULT can you even *think* about one of its members "being allowed to do another technique?" You -- and probably many others here -- can easily imagine Nicole Kidman being pressured to not do TM by her Scientologist husband and by the Co$ itself, right? Because that's something that only happens with cults, right? Being pressured to do *only* the techniques sold by the cult, right? Now think it through...what *other* organization puts pressure on its practitioners to practice *only* the techniques that it sells? This other organization has a long history of preventing people from attending its courses and getting "advanced techniques" or being allowed to become teachers if they've "gotten caught" practicing any technique other than the one they sell. It even has a documented history of throwing people out of their "domes" for practicing other techniques or "seeing other teachers." You can *damned* well bet that if Nicole Kidman had been applying for TM Teacher Training, she'd have been questioned heavily about any Scientology techniques she had practiced while with Tom Cruise. Don't be stupid, TMers. The organization you're part of is JUST as much a cult as Scientology is, and practices the exact same domination over its members. During the 47 years I've been involved with spiritual organizations, or taken courses from them, or visited forms of spiritual teaching other than TM, only *ONE* organization has ever suggested or said outright that I'd be doing something "wrong" if I learned a technique that they didn't sell. And that was the Transcendental Meditation organization. The approach taken by literally ALL others was, "Do whatever you want, visit whoever you want, and study whatever you want. You can do all of this while still studying with us...no problemo." What is it about CULTs that makes them take the opposite approach, and try to indoctrinate their followers into never learning anything other than the stuff taught by the CULT? Could it possibly be because they're afraid that the people might learn something *new*, something of value, and thus come to doubt the "Our teaching is the 'highest' teaching" malarky? Think about this with regard to the "one-downsmanship" I mentioned earlier about meditation experiences. I would suspect that the people who suggest that I am trying to "brag" about my experiences with other techniques when I talk about them openly have never learned another meditation technique since they learned TM. They've all stayed "guru-whipped" and "cult-whipped," and have DONE WHAT THEY WERE TOLD TO DO. The bottom line in matters of "meditation experience" is very simple, and something that the cultists wish to distract you from. If a person has never learned and personally experienced a technique other than the first one they were taught, they can say NOTHING meaningful about the other technique. To attempt to do so is to be a cultist, parroting what you were told *about* a technique or techniques that -- in the case of TM -- you were *also* told NEVER TO PRACTICE.
