Hey Michael, fantasy is a way of life on FFL. And April 1 is the day of the year where lies are sanctioned. You can also see the effect time and memory have on recollection and interpretation. I have read all the things you wrote previously some time ago. And what I wrote was an hypothesis, not a theory, as there was no evidence it could be true, only suppositions. I observed much of what you have said at MIU as well, I am just not so negative about the movement. I regard it as a kind of wind-up clock of mental conditioning, and the spring is slowly unwinding. Complaining about a faulty watch incessantly is a waste of time, throw it away or buy or steal a new one, or look at the sun to get the time.
Interesting how no two human minds ever agree. Do you think there is such a thing as enlightenment? It seemed to me people who chose to work in the movement were interested in the concept. I suppose I am curious as to your thoughts on that idea now. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : I am glad you are capable of such fantasy - you might try writing a novel based on your musings and put them to good use, but you are wrong on all counts - at the time the Bill Sands gave me the boot, I was chagrined for about five minutes with him in Brad's office (Brad O'Nash - then kitchen director) because I had no place else to go, no money and no transportation and at the time I was into the lifestyle of livin' poor and having the rent, utilities and food taken care of and still had some good friends there I was not ready to leave. But when I saw that Billy was getting revenge for my having gone over his head some months before, going to Greg Wilson to get an exception to the gotta be in the Dome rule, I realized I had to roll with what I was being dealt. It was during the last exchange when I came back to myself. I shakily asked how long after the DAC banquet was over with till I had to get out and he said "Five o'clock. The banquet will be over at noon on Sunday, you have to vacate your room and have all your belongings out by five o'clock that afternoon." "What! You're crazy! That's not fair! I need more time." Bill, with a supercilious look on his face, ""That's MIU policy. If you aren't working for MIU, you can't stay on campus." He actually have his head inclined so that he was looking down his nose at me. As the exchange proceeded, I got quite ticked off and told them that if they were going to do that, I was going to pack and leave right then, and they could run the bakery themselves through the big DAC banquet. Bill indignantly reminded me that I had just promised to work the banquet and he was going to hold me to it. I reminded him that he was treating me with no regard and I insisted I needed more time. He said no, and I said yes. Finally he asked me how much time and I said two weeks. He and Brad both said no in a flustered and indignant tone to which I replied that they were welcome to make bread and desserts from then till and through the DAC banquet. They protested and I got out of my chair to leave and pack. Bill disgustedly agreed. I walked out and in the next few hours I was a little uncertain as to what I would do, but by the end of the next day I had made my exit plans, arranged for transportation, gotten a temp job in Indiana that paid me enough to get me back to South Carolina and I was satisfied. By the time I left MIU I knew I didn't want to work for the Movement again - ever! and be subject to the whims of jackasses like Sands (and folk like Chris Crowell who was one of the most look down on lowly meditators who are not sidhas and look down on sidhas who aren't governors and look down on governors who have no money or status in the Movement I have ever seen). But I foolishly had the idea of rounding once in a while at a Movement facility and that lasted till I heard from some friends who were on the scene about the Heavenly Mountain crap that Bevan and Marshy pulled - it was Marshy's exhortation for all TM'ers as possible to move there and his subsequent juvenile behavior of pulling the rug out from under everyone by telling them "No one can do business here - its just for retired people and Purusha." in response to the Kaplan brothers ceasing to give him monetary support that made me realize what a gigantic son of a bitch he was and how uncaring he was about the people who made it possible for him to live like a lord and never get his hands dirty at an honest job. So after about 24 hours I was over the firing and felt quite satisfied I had stared Billy Boy Sands down and made him blink, allowing me to leave somewhat on my own terms. In hindsight, even though he did it in an underhanded fashion, he gave me a good look at typical TM boss behavior, gave me a good story to tell and did me a big favor by getting me out of cult central sooner than I otherwise would have. I also remind you that when I first was called on the carpet for non-Dome attendance and showed him my letter from my allergist and all that, I asked for a compromise which was to allow me to go meditate with the meditators, rather than the sidhas in the Dome. That way I could fulfill the letter of my staff agreement to do group program, not be exposed to the formaldehyde and other gasses in the Domes, stay healthy, happy, have good experiences and do my part working for MIU with a happier healthier body. But nooooooo! "We can't have none of that!" said Billy Boy. He felt it was tantamount to blasphemy for me to even suggest as a sidha to do program with the lowly meditators and not do my sidhis. I saw his blind goosestepping adherence to "policy" was more important to him than keeping things running smoothly and keeping the personnel happy. Typical cult behavior to blindly follow protocol and not think independently - but I also didn't ask to actually see the written policies that might cover such exceptions as I was asking for, I suspect that some of what he told me was Bill Sands' personal policy and not anything in writing on the part of MIU. I had the feeling that a number of the big wigs pulled that a few times when I was there. So much for your theory. I am happily not at MIU anymore and I can assure you if the TMO is ever foolish enough to try to insinuate themselves in the schools here in SC, they better come loaded for bear, cause there'll be a bear waiting on 'em. -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 4/1/14, anartaxius@... mailto:anartaxius@... <anartaxius@... mailto:anartaxius@...> wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Venture Fund To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2014, 5:50 The path of enlightenment ends in a number of ways. One can get tired of it and just drop the whole thing out of disinterest. One can die or become mentally incapacitated. And there are two forms of disillusionment. One is it didn't work out as expected, with a feeling of grave disappointment resulting from the discovery that it was not nearly as good as one believed it would be or worse. The other is it didn't work out as expected, but the disillusionment is the kind that was originally intended by the word enlightenment, and then things are pretty much as they always were, and OK.It seems to me MJ is pissed and has a long term grudge because he was fired from MIU for not going to the dome, and that not going to the dome had a valid medical reason. Most employees in the United States work 'at will' which means that a person can be fired for any reason that is not illegal.MJ's firing seems to be in an interesting grey area legally, and it probably could not have been fleshed out without a lawsuit to test the case. Most people on staff in the movement though, as 'serfs', do not have the resources to challenge the movement's sometimes bizarre decisions. Going to the dome as a condition of employment, regardless of the unsupportability of the hypothesis for going there, and yet being exposed to hazardous substances there that require medical intervention would be an interesting test case.As with everyone else, people working and administering in cults and other peculiar organisations are just getting through the day. If they do strange and dark things, they probably do not see it that way at all, they are just getting though another day with whatever resources are available to them.Sometimes the mind cannot let go even when the situation is clear it is never going to be resolved the way we would like. Usually one is miserable in such a situation.
