--- In [email protected], "Irmeli Mattsson" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's what people in psychosis do also, as they are not capable of > participating in the mutually shared reality in the society around. > They create their own isolated private reality, which usually doesn't > work, because we are not isolated entities and also because the > reality check in these creations is very poor.
What if the entire pricing structure of the TM movement is a reflection of this "cannot handle the outside world" mentality? What if setting the price unreasonably high is a self-fulfilling prophecy whose goal is to "prove" to those who are still within the dream organization, and who consider themselves elite because of this, that they really *are* elite? "See?" they can say to themselves, "the world isn't as evolved as we are. *We* know that TM is worth any price. If they can't see that, they just aren't very evolved, are they?" So the elite group becomes even more elite, its prejudices about the "outside world" reinforced every time the outside world rejects yet another stupid TM marketing scheme or pronouncement. The less reality-based the marketing approach, the more outlandish the pronouncement, the better. If the whole purpose is to cause the "in group" to draw ever more inward, to reject the outside world more and more, to be able to identify with and get along with only "one's own kind," then the *more* schemes and pronouncements that are rejected by the outside world, the better. Every rejection becomes a reinforcement of how lowvibe and unevolved the world is; every rejection becomes a perceived indicator or how special and evolved those who still believe in these schemes are. I think it's worth pondering the marketing efforts of the TM movement over the last few years as having been carefully calculated to *shrink* the movement rather than grow it. The whole idea may be to create a group of people who can *only* function within such an artificial world, and who thus have a vested interest in perpetuating it. 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/
