Actually that is a post by me. The misstatements are
as follow:
--- Patrick Gillam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Notice how
> > > the whole tone of this thread has shifted to an
> ad
> > > hominem attack on Rick rather than a discussion
> of the
> > > op-ed piece and the rather blatant lies of
> Pierson and
> > > Wallace.
>
> Hey Kirk or anybody, in Pierson's and Wallace's
> remarks,
> what were the lies? As my question implies, I'm not
> seeing them.
>
> I've reposted Erik's op-ed piece below as a
> reference.
>
> - Patrick Gillam
>
> July 14, 2005
> The Fairfield Ledger
> Opinion
>
> A tale of two gurus
>
>snip
>
> Wallace said TM teachers all agreed when they became
> teachers not to see
> other gurus.
This is not true. There are many teachers, especially
those who became teachers early in the TMO who signed
no such explicit agreement or contract.
snip
>
> But movement leaders say Amma is not their enemy.
>
> "The university's policy on any other teacher of
> meditation or
> self-development is neutral," said M.U.M. executive
> vice president Craig
> Pearson, "meaning we don't endorse other people, we
> don't criticize other
> people."
This is not true. The university, in the past, has
taken actions to intimidate people involved in other
spiritual teachings or psychotherapeutic programs by
threatening dome badge removal. I know this through
direct personal experience.
> At the same time, Pearson said, the university
> doesn't want people
> practicing meditation techniques other than TM in
> its domes.
This of course makes total sense.
>
> "The essential core thing that we have to protect is
> the purity of that
> practice," he said. In addition to the ceremonies
> that earned her the
> nickname "the Hugging Saint," Amma offers her own
> meditation technique.
>
> The standards are stricter for teachers than for
> rank-and-file meditators,
> Pearson added. While teachers aren't supposed to be
> seen going to other
> gurus, he said, non-teachers aren't likely to get in
> trouble for being seen
> in another guru's presence.
>
> "Just going to see somebody else, there's no problem
> with that," he said.
This is blatant horse shit.
> And in any case, Pearson said, "there's always due
> process."
Another pile of blatant horse shit. Due process? The
TMO rarely lets you know why you've been banned nor
does it allow you to question your accusor. It's a
kangaroo court through and through. This is just PR
prattle.
> Archer -- who says he had good experiences with
> Maharishi and doesn't wish
> the movement any ill -- doesn't question M.U.M.'s
> right to decide who can
> and can't meditate in the domes.
>
> "They're entitled to set whatever standards they
> want," he said.
>
> But at the same time, some say the movement hurts
> itself by discouraging
> involvement with other gurus.
>
> "I feel they lose the respect of a lot of people,"
> said Archer, "and they
> also box themselves in and run the risk, which I
> think has been to a great
> degree realized, of becoming very cult-like."
Rick is being rather polite in his gross
understatement!
snip
> Pearson, however, rejects the C-word.
>
> "I think a common definition of a cult is that
> people try to control the
> behavior, and the comings and goings and even the
> finances of the members of
> the cult," he said, "and there's nothing of that
> associated with the
> university or the practice of meditation in the
> golden domes."
Another pile of blatant H.S. So a person can do
whatever they want as long as they practice their
program as taught by MMY in the dome? I think not! Any
association with another spiritual teacher and you are
banned. Period.
snip
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