Yeah, but keep this stuff hidden from view of the public. Maharishi, in the
beginning days, was so conscious of the movement's public image. He wanted
everything to be neat and proper, from our appearance to our behavior. However,
everybody had to be a little quirky, from wearing earth shoes that made some
people think we had clubbed feat, to not shaking hands or wearing no leather.
Waving of hands as we spoke and all of the TM speak, it just got ridicules.
Outsiders started looking at TMers as neurotic freaks and wondering if TM has
something to do with it.*We* shoot our selves in the foot when it comes to
making people think that TM will be helpful in creating a better person.
Sometimes I look back on my days with the movement and just have to laugh at
how ridicules it all was and be thankful I left that crap behind me. I still
adore M and like TM but I'm so glad I put the TMO behind me and to this day I
will not be seen near a TM facility. Unfortunately too many people have taken
the *Peter Pan* vow, I won't grow up and it stuck!
From: "awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Message from Dr. Bevan Morris
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote :
This kind of crap is incredibly embarrassing. Pretty much why you'll never see
me near a TM center. If you can't convince someone with logic, then baffle
them with bullshit.
TM is 30 years ago for me. Seeing this kind of thing is amusing but nothing
more than that. Even when I was at MIU and doing all the stuff with the most
serious one pointedness I could muster, I still refused to do, for example, the
meditation break for 10 minutes that was required in the middle of class. I
remember telling Michael Caine that I wanted to continue to work and that
stopping everything to close my eyes for 10 minutes was unnecessary and I
wouldn't participate. What a little shit I was. Michael was such a nice guy he
let me do what I wanted but I was a failure at following rules. I recall going
to Torino's Pizza on the square and having a few beers (horrors) with some
fellow students who didn't imbibe. I probably only did this as an attempt at
some half-ass rebellious act since I don't even like beer. I just wasn't cut
out to be an initiator, governor or participant in (you've got to be kidding)
Mother Divine. Although I find saris are gorgeous to look at and the silk is
scrumptious, seeing a Western woman wearing one seems totally ridiculous -
especially within the context of somehow adopting this Eastern mystical ersatz
dress-up game in an attempt to appear spiritual.
However, I do kind of empathize with those who remain as the fossilized
remnants of the old guard in their attempts to convince us with their sugary
language that all is well and good in the land of natural law and the Veda as
it thrives in Iowa. I mean, it's kind of pathetic but I respect their desire to
make the world a better place and I believe their optimism to be rather quaint
in a world where all hell is breaking loose. Still, their is goodness, beauty
and mystery that surrounds us - I just don't think it is contained in the
things TM is so fond of promoting.
From: "awoelflebater@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 7:01 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Message from Dr. Bevan Morris
..." the settling of infinite softness and tenderness onto the physiology and
personality; breathing from the level of Brahm itself; flying together on one
unified wave of silence, awakening to the brilliance of all the Laws of Nature,
calmness, evenness, and deep peace. It is like the exhortations of the Veda and
Vedic Literature have become fully alive in Iowa through Maharishi's
technologies of consciousness, especially Group Dynamics of Consciousness!"
Anyone want to make MJ throw up? Just post this over at FFL2. Even I had a gag
reflex on this one...
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