--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], new.morning <no_reply@> > wrote: > <snip> > > Take these three things together (and perhaps a few others) and > > M's constant crazy project binges make sense, IMO, and puts it > > all in context. Seen in this light, his binges were a most > > wonderful and creative dance over 40 years. And a wonderful path > > for some who could keep up and withstand the craziness -- and > > enjoy inner fruit of the whole crazy exercise. > > Very nicely put. This is also what I heard once from > the old-time TM teacher who used to run the Asbury > Park TM facility; can't remember his name now. He was > just reminiscing about his time with MMY some years > previously, and he was very informal and funny, but > you could sense the energy and opening he'd gotten > from the experience. > > My stay at that hotel facility for the summer of 1995-- > as a paying guest, not working for the TMO--was the > closest I've ever come to getting sucked into the > movement. From interacting and chatting with the > teachers and lifers there, I got a really different > perspective on so many of the things that had seemed > totally nuts about the movement. > > I think I've said before here of my Asbury Park > experience that the problem was that these perspectives > only made sense from *within the TM worldview*. And > you couldn't keep one foot in the "real world" and one > foot in the TM world, because the cognitive dissonance > was too great. You had to commit totally to the TM > world--at which point the "real world" appeared to be > just as nuts as the TM world did from the outside--and > I couldn't bring myself to take that leap. I stepped > back and forth from one to the other all summer and > finally stepped out again for good. > > I'm glad I didn't decide to commit, but gee whiz, it > was a fascinating, stretching experience. >
Yes. I remember those posts. (on AMT maybe). They were nice. We are talking the same thing. or similar.
