On Apr 17, 2007, at 10:54 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: > Parents who are > depressed are also emotionally and physically unavailable.
That's what a lot of these experiences seem to me to be--undiagnosed low-grade depression that people are simply unwilling to face up to, so they try to convince themselves of their specialness in order to make some sense of it all. > So perhaps this is the inevitable result of a community that is > practicing mind altering techniques for years, Much of the focus of the TMO over the years I was involved (and I have no reason to think it's changed, in fact it might even be more so now) seems to be to put as much in between people and their children as they can, or even between married couples: accepting one person to a course but not the other, insisting people come to the Domes during the best part of the day for parents and kids to be together, and on and on. Basically forcing them to choose. > and if you accept the > perspective that they are experiencing a valuable new state of > consciousness, it is all worth it. If you take my perspective (and I > think Sal's) meditating parents need to re-focus on her job of raising > these kids and spend less time with their attention on their own self. > (capitalizing the "S" doesn't get them off the hook) Put down the > crack pipe people, your kids are being trained that their needs don't > matter and they don't understand that you believe you are creating > world peace. Kids need a little help developing their sense of self > and you need to be there or pay someone who can be.
