Thanks for your stories, Trin. As you said, similar to mine in some way, very different in others.
Selected comments: > > When the behavior or the doubts reached the point of > > "excommunication," the apostates almost overnight > > became "ex." > > Certainly not over night. The special purge I described was a > one-time event, a very shocking one I must agree. Icky to the max. > It was ceratinly more of a shock tactics from the side of > Maharishi. He even phoned when we were in the middle of the > flying program to get it started. But in the end everybody got > rehabilitated. And in my own situation, I realize it was > ultimately the right decission for me. Certainly sounds like it to me. > > They were forgotten; it was if they had > > never existed. > > Rubbish. many letters, phonecalls etc. A year after the whole > event, I got a letter from my Purusha friend saying that > Maharishi would need Purushas, and that I could come back, not > withstanding that I was with MM already for one year. I just > decided not to return. That was your experience. During my last year or so with the TM movement, still a State Coordinator, I was living in a small town with a few still active initiators and a few who had been declared "off the program" and forced to leave the movement. When I would be out walking with the still- active TM teachers, and they encountered one of the "OTP types," they would literally cross the street to avoid talk- ing to them. Shocked the hell outa me. > > It was embarrassing to think about > > them, because to think about them poked holes in the > > oh-so-carefully-constructed myth, so no one ever did. > > In retrospect, it was just the weirdest thing. > > Rubbish. You sound as if you had a fortunate experience. My only point is that not everyone did. Some who left or who were forced out wound up in a situation more like I described above. > > And it wasn't just TM. Please don't interpret this > > as a "dump on TM alone" rap. I saw *exactly* the same > > pattern in the Rama trip. And I've encountered it in > > other spiritual organizations since. > > I understand that there was a tendency for this, it was certainly a > sort of a dogma to 'not engage in negativity' And certain people > ceratinly were like this. But mostly everbody was just human. And just trying to cope with living inside a big myth. > So, really I don't share your feelings. With all the revelation > I have just given. And that's just fine. That's why I asked. I was really curious as to people's different experiences. Still am. 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/
