On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Peter <[email protected]> wrote: > If the question is whether the TMO is a cult or not is too simple a question. > It makes it appear as if its an all or nothing question and that doesn't > reflect the broad experiential reality of people in their various levels of > involvement/identification with the TMO. For some people the TMO functions as > a cult in their life. By this I mean they have very little independent > thought outside of the conceptual tools offered by the TMO. They > conceptualize their experience through these constructs. When something > doesn't fit the constructs they also have a means of dealing with it: > unstressing, negativity. The conceptual tool box becomes a dogma for them: it > is solely a belief system and not based on their personal experience. They > are emotionally repressed and intellectually inflexible because they have > traded their authentic experiencing for a system of thoughts/concepts. This > is one extreme. The opposite is someone who does their program solely because > of > the experience they have.
Sorry, Pete. It's a cult. Just like the Catholic Church is a religion. If I choose not to go to church, to confession, to Holy Communion, the Catholic Church continues to be a religion. I have no choice but to expose myself to and pass as a member of the Cult of TM. No way I'd be allowed in the Dome if I didn't pay lip service to all the orthodoxy of the TMO, our king, our princes, our global country, if I didn't show the proper reverence to the whole puja to Guru Dev thing that goes on between rounds in the morning. It may make you feel better to think that you are not a member of a cult by declaring that you don't feel like you're a member and that you don't do culty things. But if you authentically practice TM and the TM sidhis, you have a global country, a king and princes. If we don't have your current email and postal address, send it to us and we'll put you on the list so you can reconnect with Cult Central.
