In another post, Raunchy opined: > I understand your concern. I agree that unfounded beliefs > can be harmful. However, in all the years I have meditated, > I cannot think of one thing about it that has caused me > harm. If someone feels TM has caused him or her harm, > that is his or her experience, not mine.
Let's compare and contrast to what she said in this post: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchy...@...> wrote: > > When I was on the Vedic Atom, I worked in the course > office at PAC Pal and processed tons of applications > for LA Sidhas applying for WPA's and the course in > India with Maharishi. We did not have a list. An > unidentified male voice on the phone calling from an > undisclosed location (probably Livingston Manor) from > the "Council of Supreme Intelligence" had the list. > They seemed to know all about the applicants I > processed so I assumed they had a list. So Raunchydog, in all that time that you were "processing applications for LA Sidhas applying for WPA's," did you ever turn anyone down? If so, that probably does not fall into the category of "causing you harm." But is is pos- sible that you caused *others* harm by just believing an unidentified male voice on the other end of the phone? Is it possible that you turned down someone's application because the unidentified voice on the other end of the phone said to out of spite, or because he thought that they might have once seen another spiritual teacher or done some- thing Off The Program? If so, and someone was discriminated against and kept away from a course that even YOU would have to believe would be beneficial for them, does this present a case for YOUR "unfounded beliefs" being a tad harmful to someone else? Or is their experience of YOU turning them down all "their experience, not yours?" I'm SURE you can make a case for "I was just doing my job, and following orders." But you don't even know WHOSE orders you were follow- ing. Do you not see something vaguely remin- iscent of Germany during WWII about this, where good Germans sent Jews somewhere (they didn't care where) because some unidentified male voice told them to? Do you get my point? Thanks for posting, "Anything is possible," by the way. That's another evasion, and not the same as actually saying, "There is a possibility that the TM critics are right and I am wrong," but it's the closest any of the people I addressed my question to have come to actually answering it. So that makes you the least pussy-like of any of them. Your certificate is in the mail. :-)
