--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 17, 2005, at 7:19 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > My position is that this attitude has been taught so > > pervasively and so effectively that *most* TMers who > > react this way to news that someone has left the TM > > movement do NOT realize that they were TAUGHT to react > > that way, over and over and over and over, for decades. > > This is a really good point. In fact if you extend this further, > you will notice that many of the pro-TMO comments--despite the > vast evidence to the contrary--are just "conditioning". Some of > it may represent post-hypnotic suggestion. > > Typical conditioned response include: > > -TM is the highest or fastest meditation technique there is. > -Maharishi is enlightened > -anyone who leaves is leaving the "fastest boat" > -don't look at the real setting or tradition you (are alleged > to) come from, it will just confuse you. > -wealth = evolution > > The list goes on...
But, just to provide some balance, such lists go on and on in almost EVERY spiritual tradition on the planet. That is why it is good, no matter what tradition you feel you are from, to analyze the assumptions you "take for granted" periodically to see if they really *warrant* being taken for granted. Unc 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/
