Share writes: “The Rajas are just a weird offshoot of a main organization”.
So why the gold foil hats and robes, now? What were they thinking the other night coming, sitting and leaving in their processional in and out of the meeting in full WTF-regalia? Generally groups can both live and die by their own specialness. The social-science field of altruistic evolution proly has a lot to say about that. This TM group has been killing itself off over the long years by cultivating extra-specialness within it. And, this cultivating specialness of the Rajas now? Does a larger meditating community want to belong to that or have that represent it? It all seems more like a hazing than anything else. It was interesting to see who [which Raja] were not wearing the gold crown and robe git-up at the meeting. That itself proly took some courage to do. -Buck 7Ray27 writes: Hey Michael, Most of what I know about the school comes from the annual publication I get listing achievements and donors about and to MUM.. (and yes, I am listed as making a small donation) But as I understand it Craig Pearson is the administrative head of the school. Now, whether he takes his orders from the Rajas, or Bevan, or if is able to work independently, I don't know. I do happen to know someone higher up in the school administration and talk to him very infrequently. But the impression I get is that those administrators handle to day to day running, without a lot of direct oversight or interference from the rajas. Of course, in the same publication, they also list the trustees of the university. They are many, and very few (if any) are rajas, IIRC. So, that may offer a different perspective than the one you are offering. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : an offshoot? What are you smoking? Let's see - the leader of the Movement, King-Pin Tony CALLS himself not only a king but the BIG king, he wears robes and a big ass gold crown - all the other leaders including Bevan are all robe and crown wearers - these asses RUN the Movement - if the rajas aren't in charge who is? The fact that you can't accept these guys have become the face of the new Movement is indicative of just how deep your denial runs. sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@...> wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More I think it's called the World Wide Web. The Rajas are just a weird offshoot of the main organization. I'm not sure what direct connection the Rajas have to academic life. As for due diligence during the time you were involved in the organization and people looking at it now, it's sort of like indicting the Collective Papers for being so low on Amazon's Book list compared to the guy's book that just came out about the murder of his fellow MUM student. A lot has changed in thirty years. The world just doesn't turn exactly the way you want it to Michael. You have to get used to that fact. Despite your earnest efforts to defeat the organization in every way you can, you may end up being frustrated. But I'm sure you'll stay at it. It appears to be quite a preoccupation for you. And really, if truth be told, it seems to have come on heels of your other failed spiritual ventures. Perhaps all that frustration got all balled up, and this is now the result. Just sayin' mjackson74 wrote : You must be living with your head in the sand Share - the TMO masks a great deal of what it does from the outside observer including those who are prospective students. I have told the story of how I just a few months ago had a good talk with a young man and his mother. The boy was intent on going to MUM - they had been to visitors weekend and didn't even know anything about the rajas! I had been in the TM mindset for 10 years before I went to MIU and I had no idea of the stupid crap I would have to put up with while on staff - no one does unless they have been on staff or as a student. Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com"; <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sunday, April 20, 2014, 9:28 PM salyavin, in this day and age, however could a person join a utopian cult without realizing it?! Sounds to me like someone who didn't do their due diligence. And if it's really as bad as the blogger claims, wouldn't he have noticed the trailer park etc. when he first arrived. Plenty of time to get money back or not enroll at all. I doubt that the blog is telling his part in all this. The students at MUM now are very different than the students who were at MIU in 1975. Back then many were TM teachers and or had already been meditating for a few years. Californians! Nowadays they're into David Lynch or sustainable living or organic food or some combo or these (-: As for me, I'm no longer on the inside and haven't been for almost 12 years, 7 of which I didn't even go to the Dome. Plus I have constant contact with my non meditating family so I'm aware of how it all looks to non meditators. On Sunday, April 20, 2014 3:37 PM, salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : Well salyavin, in all my years here, we've only had one earthquake and it's epicenter was over in Illinois across the Mighty Mississip, a river which supposedly has a fault line running down it. I'll have to ask some vastu dwellers about the homeowners insurance. PS btw, speaking of good questions, I think mine is a good question too: if this blogger is so unhappy with MUM, why does he continue being a student there?! As I said, he probably has his money invested in it, be hard to change to another one without losing any downpayments or even just getting on another course at this stage without starting again. Maybe he's got a lot of anger at finding out that he joined a utopianist cult without realising it? I've never been to FF or MUM but I know how the movement works and let's face it, the TMO is more than a bit weird. You may not think so as you are on the inside but the TM worldview is unusual and takes some getting used to for anyone. If you steadfastly refuse to adopt it then you will be unhappy. Is it possible to just go to MUM and not notice what everyone else believes? .
