--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I seem to recall, after the whole affair blew over, Bevan > said something to the effect that that these people were > trying to undermine our accreditation efforts and sabotage > the image of the school before the wider world. > > You have to understand, we were *all about* proselytizing, > hence the coats and ties. Anything that distracted from > that clean-cut, mainstream image was strictly off the > program. So this gay rights plea on the day the school > was to be inspected by the outside academic world seemed > like an averted catastrophe. (The posters were taken down > right away, of course.)
Forget the gay thing...what you have just described is the entire history of the TM movement from Day One -- pretense and hiding its normality in the closet, followed by panic, paranoia and persecuation when the closet door is thrown open and all-too- normal interiors of the closet are revealed. It doesn't matter whether the pretense was about TM having so negative side effects, or about TM marriages never failing, or about no one in TM communities ever committing suicide or seeing shrinks, or about every- body being straight. Whatever the specifics were, the bottom line was always the same -- pretense. Pretending that the actuality of the life of a TMer conformed to Maharishi's claims of what the life of a TMer should be. And woe be unto him who pulls back the curtain on that pretense and reveals it for what it is. 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/
