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From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
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Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2015 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] ~~~ Case-Studies about TMO friendship ~~~~~~~~~~~
Culturally, for you when did the movement change?More case-studies..
Mdixon writes:
I'venever been kicked out or disciplined by the TMO, I still get
weeklynotifications of group Meditations and seasonal celebrations from the
localcenter. However, because I find the *organization* soFUBAR, for my own
peace of mind, I choose to keep my distance fromit, otherwise I would get
kicked out. Quite frankly, I find the TMOto be the antithesis of what it claims
TM does for the individual.It's not efficient, creative or compassionate. That
is a façade.I've found TM leaders to be spiritual bullies and power trippers.
"OhMaharishi wouldn't want that" (I know because I'm in perfecttune with his
thinking). I find them lazy(oh Nature will organizethat) and their fragile
little egos get offended easily if you offerconstructive criticism or a better
idea (oh, you're just beingnegative). Don't rain on my parade attitude. I Like
TM andthink of the results in longer terms and I love Maharishi,although I
realized he is just a man with human faults and notthe God I once seemed to
worship as. As for the TMO, I find itto be an embarrassment. I think the straw
that broke the camel'sback for me was telling me I had to give the TMO another
$2,000.00 tokeep teaching, assuming I wanted to. I will not be black-mailed.
Iwas never re-certified. I hadn't taught since the midseventies and had no
plans to resume teaching and I'd be damnedif I was going to give them $2,000.00
to maintain credentials I hadno intentions of using, at least for the time
being. I lookedat it as blackmail. Their services are no longer needed by me
aswell. FFL 413630
BTW,Bruce Beal, who was the Houston Center manager at one time, demandedthat I
make a monthly contribution to the center from my Job at UPS.He kept me from
getting the Sidhis for years because I wouldn'tsupplement his income from mine!
Others gave contributions tobuild an PK clinic and were to receive PK
discounts. The clinicwas never built and money never returned. They were
thieves as well.Oh shit, you got me started! Let it go and take it as it
comes,let it go and take it as it comes , let it go..... LOL FFL-413361
It'sa Potemkin village all the way down, Mike. -Serious_RichardFFL-413629
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
accruing:
InFFL 413626 Bhairitu writes:
Iwasn't kicked out either. [ ] As I've mentioned many times, Iwalked away
disgusted that the TMO would charge $185 for what wasessentially an intro
lecture on ayurveda I could have given myself. That was in 1985.
Edgwrites: Never was kicked out of the movement, left it mindfully.
..
>From Maharishi's arrival in the West in the later 1950's TM as a developing
>organized movement in those times during the 1960's and 1970's was primary
>focused on teaching meditation to individuals also based then on the accruing
>scientific research on meditation up to the early 1970's. By the mid-1970's
>the TM organization transitioned over towards facilitating groups of
>individuals in to groups for communal practice of meditation as a form of
>direct-action for creating a better world. That change of theme then became a
>common core theme to many of Maharishi's activities from that time up until
>the end of his life in 2008.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
also a large format book entitled,Inaugurationof the Dawn of the Age of
Enlightenment (1975). Thesethree volumes taken together give a good snapshot of
theTranscendental Meditation movement at that time up to the mid-1970's.
For context, this third book has thefollowing quotes:
“As a result ofscientific research conducted during the past decade(s)
onTranscendental Meditation, the practical aspect of the Science ofCreative
Intelligence, at more than two hundred universities andresearch institutes in
different countries, including Germany,England, Canada, United States, Holland,
India, South Africa, andAustralia, involving the trends of life of about eleven
hundredmillion people in the vicinity of eleven hundred World Plan centresin
over eighty-nine countries on all continents, as endorsed andproclaimed by
legislators, governors, mayors, educators, doctors,lawyers, businessmen,
organizations, and individuals, and as a resultof his successful world-wide
activities, His Holiness MaharishiMahesh Yogi, founder of the Science of
Creative Intelligence, throughthe window of science, saw the coming dawn of the
Age ofEnlightenment and inaugurated it for the whole world in Switzerlandon 12
January 1975”
Text transcribed from the 1975 book:“. .Through thewindow of Science we see the
Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment.
Good time for the worldis coming. Now, a few people in any country will be able
to changethe destiny of their nation for all good.
One percent of thepopulation will be sufficient to design the direction of time
for allhappiness, progress, and fulfillment everywhere.
I see the dawn of theAge of Enlightenment.
In this scientific age,it is no longer necessary for any nation to continue
living withproblems.
This is the time of thedawn of the Age of Enlightenment. I am only giving
expression to thephenomenon that is taking place.
One percent of thepeople in any country can herald the dawn of a new age for
the wholenation by devoting only fifteen minutes of their time twice a day.
With such a littledemand for such a great offer it is not conceivable that the
worldwill go any longer in the footsteps of suffering.
It is in the hands of afew individuals in every country today to change the
direction oftime and guide the destiny of their nation for all
harmony,happiness, and progress.
It is my joy to inviteeveryone to come in the light of the knowledge and
experience thatthe Science of Creative Intelligence provides and enjoy
participatingin this global awakening to herald the Age of Enlightenment.
-Maharishi12 January 1975
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
Memo: Accompanyingthis are two volumes, Celebrating the Dawn (1976) andCreating
Ideal Society (1976) onTranscendental Meditation. These relate particularly to
a transitionin the activities of the larger TM movement that was taking place
inthe mid and late 1970's that are the precursor of themes in TMactivism in the
1980's and beyond.
FromMaharishi's arrival in the West in the later 1950's TM as adeveloping
organized movement in those times during the 1960's and1970's was primary
focused on teaching meditation to individuals also based then on the scientific
research on meditation accruing upto the early 1970's. By the mid-1970's the
TM organizationtransitioned over towards facilitating groups of individualsin
to groups for communal practice of meditation as a form ofdirect-action for
creating a better world. That change of theme thenbecame a common core theme to
many of Maharishi's activities fromthat time up until the end of his life in
2008.
Ingathering source publications Iam seeing that the earlier 1970's were
different from the late1970's, the 1980's and to the present. The theoretical
framework ofthe TM movement became re-formatted and re-enforced by the
scientificresearch then being performed on meditation which drove
policyimplications for the organization of the TM movement from thatperiod. For
instance, Paper 98 in Scientific Research on theTranscendental Meditation
Program Collected Papers, Volume 1provides a good insight in to an impetus of
the re-alignment ofpriority for the TM movement from then. The period of the
mid 1970'swas then a time where more developed [revolutionary and
millenarian]themes and subsequent campaigns came about within TM.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
By e-mail: “The mainphenomenon I would point to regarding this is that
culturally wepromote practices that create an uncomfortable or hostile
environmentfor people who are seekers, critical thinkers, and
moredevelopmentally mature. These individuals receive negativereinforcement
from the community to the extent that they believe theydon't belong in the
movement whereas the individuals that are more"devout" and "dedicated" to
Maharishi's teachingsreceive positive reinforcement.”
discussion: Thisis an extremely pertinent, succinct and very well said e-mail
and itshould not be lost track of in all of this. Again, it goes back to
anature of character in the leadership within this and what we havenow as the
TM communities. Thanks for taking the time to put thispoint together. Thanks
also for being there coming along attending to anddoing this work on behalf of
our meditating communities.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
“The problems and thesolutions for the TM movement are in the first three
sutras:Friendliness, Compassion, Happiness.” -A friend who is successfulin
life, an old meditator who moved to Fairfield, Iowa in retirementobserves.
..when did the movement change?
Reminisces:More distinctly it changed in 1977 with the coming of the Vedic
Atomre-organization and the wholesale sweeping out of a corporate orderof
national leaders and coordinators then who had used metrics ofnumbers of
initiations to guide the movement up to that point. Fromthen the movement
became sidhis-centric, it overlooking entirely theteaching of TM, it overlooked
the meditators, and the newadministrators adjudicated based much less on merit
and metrics andmuch more by their sense in fealty of a faith and belief in
Maharishiand Maharishi's teaching using a one-way, “never do weentertain
negativity, never do we denounce anyone”. There was achange in the cultural
esprit de corps in teaching of TM from then tobeing more of a faith-based
organization.
>From themoments of the Vedic Atom creation a lot of the most experienced
>andeffective TM teachers were left out with no place to return to 'outin the
>field' within the movement. These were the experienced fieldteachers who
>themselves were still on courses in Europe or just thengoing over to courses
>and not in sync in that free-for-all creationof teams made up of just anyone
>and going out in usurpation.
I wasthere and saw this, eye-witness. It was like witnessing thedecapitation of
the whole officer corps of a standing army then.Chaos ensued out in the field
and autocrats tried to control it fromon top at a distance. It was quite sad to
watch what happened topeople. It was something that happened. Even great
leadership makesmistakes in history.
Yearslater now in TM, scientist CEO's, administrators, with some who
areeffective teachers by character being more in charge the teachingmovement
now is getting back to metrics of performance and evaluationin the teaching of
TM. We may yet wait for the remainingold-guard Plutarchs to get out of the way
and in to their retirementor die, whichever can come first. An alarming message
for changewithin sent by some retrogressive element in this more recently wasin
honors granted in a re-appearance and rehabilitation of theWilsons, Neil
Patterson, Abramson and some others being brought upand placed seated on stage
at the 40th anniversary celebrationof MIU. Is that a movement that people would
come back to, goingforward?
#
..when did the movement change?
Bhairitu writes:
After the AE courses. Some teachers came back and assumed being "TM Gestapo".
Most of them were very mediocre souls probably lifetimes away from attaining
any permanent state of enlightenment. They were rude and mean to other
teachers and made pronouncement as if they had a stick up their butt. That's
when folks started fleeing elsewhere.
..I've been away from the TMO since 1985 but I seem to recall some of them got
drummed out themselves. They never bothered me but I sure heard stories from
people who were their victims. Sometimes what goes around comes around.
#
Are any of them still in charge of anything:?
L
Discussing: “One thing which is interesting hereis that this movement was
founded by people who had a distinct lackof the first list and an abundance of
the second list. To takea year off college and go to a 3-month TM TTC in 1972
required agreat lack of obedience, compliance, conformity, discipline
andadherence; and a great abundance of authenticity,
self-direction,self-expression, appreciation of diversity, critical analysis,
andplayfulness. When did we change?”
..when did the movement change?
As the culture of the movement becameTM-siddhis centric. Back when the metric
changed from numbersof meditators and the teaching of TM over to groups of
people practicingTM-yogic-flying. The friendly, compassionate, and happy
movementbecame something else under a new administrative leadership with a
different mission from then.
Discussing: “Specifically,our community culture highly values: obedience,
compliance,conformity, discipline and adherence. These values go
directlyagainst the grain of: creativity, authenticity,
self-direction,self-expression, appreciation of diversity, critical analysis,
andplayfulness which are generally the characteristics of later stagesof
development.”
..Discussion:I feel this is a very powerful way of analyzing. ..examples ofour
community culture valuing “conformity,” for example?
LEnglish5 wrote :
I think you're wrong all the way across the board in your conclusinos, even if
you make partially valid points.The TM organization appears to be thriving, and
on the verge of being 100x laster than it has ever been, while being recognized
by the largest organizations in the world as being important.
Of course, that last may never happen, but what if does?
L
Yes,granted that in places the TM movement is progressing. Thatevidently
depends though on people and a character of the peopleinvolved how it is going.
In Latin America pretty obviously it ishappening because of the integrity of
the person there leading it.Elsewhere the TM movement is pretty small. They guy
in Latin Am. isway inclusive in language and nature, sort of like the new pope,
and simplyteaching TM. At the level of the Global Country of World Peace
itevidently is way exclusive as a faith-based organization. Their GCWP is avery
small organization actually. It is some numbers of hundreds. Itseems is not out
of the woods yet, post MMY: 'All chiefs and noindians', as the old saying
went.. And certainly no young leaders onthe stage or at the microphones yet at
important functions. TheGlobal Country is about 30 Rajas and some 'Ministers'
like Bevan andNeil holding fast to the movement tiller and microphone. Lot of
the Rajas evidentlybailed in various ways.
A meditator communityobserver here with a valid Dome badge watching their
meetings andvideos comments, 'they should look and see if anyone is following'.
By contrast, I was up at Mayo Cliniclast week. Consistently rated at the top in
healthcare, their contrastin organizational culture of ease, fluidity,
collaboration, graciousness, mission of service, focus and outcome is
spectacular by contrast withthe halting organizational cultural of fears
endemic withinorganizational TM.
anartaxius wrote :I suspect Michael, that Maharishi as a young spiritual
groupie was much like the people who eventually surrounded him, with that
bright naive sense that everything would be grand. And then the reality of the
world, the incapacities of the people, began to set in. Nothing goes the way
you think it will go (though statistically there are always a few people who
are on the lucky end of the curve).
He did acknowledge there would be a flaw that would derail the whole thing. But
there is always more than one way for something to come off the rails, and it
can come from inside oneself just as well as from outside. Creating an
organisation, especially a large one, is one way to bollix up the works because
resources that might have been used to supposedly enlighten people have to be
diverted to support and sustain the organisation.
The organisation then becomes a vampire that sucks its supposed beneficiaries
dry in order to sustain itself. Anyone at the head of such an organisation who
has personal issues or flaws in relation to its stated mission becomes a major
distorting factor in its growth, along with the flaws of all the rest who
become part of it.
Add to that that enlightenment offers nothing in the end except the knowledge
that there was nothing to get in the first place and cuts you loose to live
your life independently means those few who do 'succeed' in getting what this
truly odd business of 'spiritual' growth is about are not usually going to be
enthusiastic about being surrounded by spiritual cretins and their inept dreams
of a utopia.
mjackson74 wrote :Too bad he was a damnable liar.
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