Maybe we are splitting hairs here but you yourself offered the opinion that the Movement needed to purge itself of cultish nonsense. I agree that not ALL the things the Movement says about TM is a lie, but a good deal of it is stretching the truth if not an out right lie.
Sal summed it up by referring to TM as a gateway drug. You know good and well the Movement leaders want everyone who does TM to swallow it whole hog, get into yagyas, ayurveda over western medicine, buy vedic observatory models and all the rest. If you can see the Movement doing good when they for example offer to do a national yagya for England to prevent more flooding and storms AFTER the rainy season was over and AFTER they asked for and collected $100,000 to "do" the yagya when the pundits were already living in TM facilites and knew how to do the yagya already, if you see this as evidence of the kind of behavior TM creates or that it is doing good, you have a way different idea of what doing good in the world is. I can't help but see the fact that what the Movement mainly uses TM for is to get more converts to make more money. They are not out there doing anything substantive to improve the quality of life for people - they promote TM to promote TM, not to do anything else. (from my point of view) ________________________________ From: "'Rick Archer' r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 12:44 PM Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: About Nov. 30 From:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 11:27 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: About Nov. 30 I am curious how you feel it is "doing good in the world" when it has thrived off of lies, misinformation and the cultish beliefs and antics it has used for decades? Do you mean just by the fact it still teaches TM to folks who were not meditators before? Yes, many of whom benefit tremendously from it, as I have. It’s not all “lies, misinformation and the cultish beliefs and antics”. There are many good people who are not guilty of that stuff, and there is probably a power struggle within the movement between them and those who are. ________________________________ From:"'Rick Archer' r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 11:15 AM Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: About Nov. 30 From:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 3:36 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: About Nov. 30 It's part of Rick Archer's long-time strategy to try to split up and weaken the Movement. I have no such strategy. I just forward stuff that’s relevant to FFL. That includes stuff from Hagelin, Orme-Johnson, etc. I wish the movement well. I think it’s doing a lot of good in the world. But it will only thrive if it conducts itself with honesty and integrity and purges itself from cultish nonsense, much of which was introduced by MMY.
