--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: <snip> > For most people I knew in the TMO, there was > a profound moment of cognitive dissonance the > moment that they *realized* that they'd been > snookered into paying several thousand dollars > for *literally* the same phrases they could have > found in a $3.95 paperback.
I don't know how much of the $3,000 I paid to learn the TM-Sidhis was for the phrases (or if any of it was, for that matter). I took a CIC course and had several hours of detailed instruction both days of six (?) weekends, to start with; then two weeks at MIU, including many more hours of instruction, plus rather sumptuous meals and a comfortable single room in one of the pods. > However, for most of those people, their *next* > response was to "stuff" that moment of cognitive > dissonance and try their best to never think of > it consciously, ever again. You see it here daily, > as people still speak of the TM-sidhis as if they > were something magical and special. But *without > exception*, everyone knows that they are not. It's > just thinking a few buzzphrases that they could > have gotten for $3.95. Without the detailed instruction, I wouldn't have had the foggiest idea *how* to "think the buzzphrases." There is, of course, a lot more to it than you suggest. I wouldn't say the TM-Sidhis are "magical" per se, but in terms of the personal return on investment, for me they're most definitely "special." > An honest person could *admit*, both to themselves > and to the world, that that is what they paid sev- > eral thousand dollars for. A less honest person > might try to keep that information hidden and even > try to make it appear to be mystical or magical in > some way, so that new generations of suckers could > be bilked as they were. However an honest person would characterize the TM- Sidhis, they wouldn't claim the fee for the course was only for the phrases. It would be the less-honest person who would make that claim. Just sayin'.
