--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" > > > On Jul 20, 2005, at 7:54 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: > > > > > > > And, then there's L B Shriver; it wasn't enough to banish > > > > him from campus, so they tried to pressure his employer to > > > > fire him. And, they claim to not be a cult? Quelle folie! > > ...just twenty four hours until Sat Yuga! Hey, I even got my car > washed yesterday for the occasion...(btw, absurd tone indicated > here...) > > On another note, reading through the many posts on the FF Ledger > article and thinking about the way that the TMO enforces "the purity > of the teaching", I am left with a question: > > Do folks here think that the weird behavior of the TMO (such as > banning people from the dome because they saw Guru X or Y, or > adopting defacto uniforms for Movement men and women) is due to what > Maharishi speaks of; that the pure knowledge comes from the Guru and > is then heard in a less evolved state of consciousness by his/her > followers, who then reinterpret his/her knowledge as only they can, > and strange behavior results? > > Or, that Maharishi rules the TMO firmly and that all behavior > expressed by the organization has his tacit approval, he perhaps > figuring that a somewhat warped organization to spread his message > is better than none at all?
I firmly believed the former until I saw MMY in person and saw both MMY's brilliance and his "insanity," and saw how MMY was responsible for micromanaging *everything* in the TMO, making it a virtually perfect mirror of his own personality. Of course, it took a little longer before I realized both he and the TMO were also perfect mirrors of *our own* personality :-) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
