--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason Spock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > TM is the brain-child of Gurudev Brahmananda Sarasvati. > > But others methods I don't know. I suppose a little bit of Snake-oil is necessary to grease the wheels of a big movement.??
"A little bit of snake-oil" I can live with...we all can and did, for many years. But today the snake-oil is a MAJOR part of the TMO and its marketing and that's too much for me. Sorry. > > --------OriginalMessage--------- > From: "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:12:14 -0000 > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Keeping Things Quiet (was Re: Hurdy Gurdy Man revealed) > > Forget being "positive"...what I couldn't stand was virtually every brochure that came out of MIU had happy, smiling faces...very Stepford Wives-ish. I was at MIU at the time and --speaking for my friends and I -- we stayed as far away as possible from the few on campus that did actually smile that much (and that little demographic had a disproportionately high number of mental breakdowns). > > I honestly don't think that happens much these days in the TM > Movement, Tantra. Why? Because the nuttiness that is coming down > from Vlodrop-in-the-sky is occurring so often and is SO undefendable > that even the most hard-core True Believer is hapless in his ability > to defend it. > > From Kings weighed in gold to CIA comments to I-speak-only-to- those- > with-Vastu to Damn-democracy, a little negativity from the troops is > actually a welcome respite: at least some cynicism, skepticism and > negativity from meditators is something in the realm of rationality > and, as such, can be dealt with by a rational mind. Vlodrop > proclamations leaves the most devoted of the initiators and > governors scratching their heads and first trying to figure out what > the hell is going on themselves before they would even hope to > answer a question from a regular meditator about it. > > Speaking of proclamations: remember back in the '70s when the TMO > lobbied for and got all those State and US Congressional > Proclamations? And how the TMO (read: Maharishi) thought that they > were actually worth the paper that they were written on and > publicized them? Well, as embarrassing as that was then and as much > as we all rolled our eyes, well, by comparison to what's going on > today, it seems like the good 'ole days. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Shopping > Find Great Deals on Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
