I am not trying to make any case for anyone. I merely referred to this change in policy as concerns group meditation at MUM and my consequent surprise when hearing it. I am an ex-sidha / meditator. When I went to MIU in the early 90s, you always did your program in groups. I do not know whether the policy has now changed for sidhas as well, but I would not think so.
And, finally, to reply to your pointed elaboration : Yes, I was finally convinced to pay several thousand dollars (1700 USD to be precise if my memeory serves me right) to learn a few phrases in English that I could have gotten from a $3.95 paperback translation of the Yoga Sutras. That is tragic in itself, but a different story. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "It's just a ride" > <bill.hicks.all.a.ride@> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:46 AM, svenssonjack <svenssonjack@>wrote: > > > > > > Thanks for your news on this topic. I just learned from MUM > > > Admissions that they no longer require students to meditate > > > in a group (they still need to meditate though), which is > > > suprising and strange. It goes against the Super Radiance > > > policy. > > > > I disagree. TM meditation has been considered next to > > useless since the early 1980s. Maharishi made such a > > big thing of the sidhis and of sidhas doing program > > together that the status of TM meditators was diminished. > > I learned the sidhis because I had enjoyed going to the TM > > center and to residence courses. Everything for mere > > meditators got cut down tremendously. There was a residence > > course at MIU, for example, perhaps twice a year. The > > purpose of those two residence courses was to convince > > the meditators to become sidhas. So if you wanted to even > > watch a tape, you had to become a sidha because increasingly > > the tapes were for sidhas only. > > So let me try to get this straight. > > You were finally convinced to pay several thousand > dollars to learn a few phrases in English that you > could have gotten from a $3.95 paperback translation > of the Yoga Sutras because the above machinations on > the part of the TMO had convinced you that the only > way to continue doing the things you enjoyed about > the TMO -- residence courses and group meditations -- > was to pay more money and become a "siddha?" > > Can you explain further? It sounds to me on the basis > of what you describe above as if you're trying to make > a case for "sidhas" being too stupid to realize that > they've been had. >
