Natural Law moves invincibly forward. TMSP no longer mandatory at
Marshy U. Will Natural Law eventually abolish the TMSP? Sure sounds
that way!
From the TM-Free Blog:
http://tmfree.blogspot.com/2009/06/students-speak-transcendental.html
"So today there was an all school assembly where they spoke about
many new developments happening.... one in particular involved
abolishing the Research in Consciousness program (required meditation
w/consequences for not obeying)! Hooray!.... and creating the
Development of Consciousness Program...... this new program consists
of the following (from a handout): (...)"
(...)
Basically this opens up the meditation policy enormously. Before we
were required to attend a meditation session AT LEAST once a day,
every day of the month in order to pass....these were held at a few
pockets of time before and after class everyday in either the dorms
or golden domes. If you failed 3 blocks in a row then you were put on
"RC ALERT" which meant you had to start going almost every day, twice
a day, to make up for missing meditations and to keep up with the
current month/block.
With this new Development of Consciousness program we, the students,
will NOT be required to attend EVERY SINGLE DAY. This leaves it open
for students who want to do their own thing on a day to day basis and
the hard core student meditators who enjoy going everyday can still
do so. Though there are still some "requirements" for us students,
they seem FAR MORE RELAXED than anything I've heard since being here
and even from long before.
In my last letter to you I mentioned that their old system had me en
route to be kicked out. But with this new system it seems like I will
be able to do everything I had already been doing without a problem
now. It's as if the school adapted to OUR schedule and expectations.
Funny. It also seems that at least half of the student body just
stopped caring about required meditation (included in this group were
those with stellar grades) because everyone recognized how much B.S.
was behind what we were being told to do. That coupled with the fact
that MUM can't afford students leaving were probably the two biggest
factors in this policy change.
Earlier in the year the administration put a band-aid over the whole
RC issue by just renaming things....BUT... many of us grew up
bullshitting our parents and we recognized what the administration
did (or didn't do haha). There is the saying that "You can't bullshit
a bullshitter." I find this to be evident with much of the current
student body. So with some organization, economic motivation, and
genuine passion for what this place could be, us students have
managed to drastically change a policy and mindset which was
foundational to the school.
The work is far from over but this is a big leap forward in thinking
for the administration of the school.
