--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@...> wrote:
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> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of Sal Sunshine
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 5:02 PM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM
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> On May 27, 2011, at 4:48 PM, wayback71 wrote:
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> > Actually, I was initiating in the 70's and kept a record and index file on
> everyone. But like many teachers of TM, when I moved I left the files with
> the people who replaced me. People were mobile then and there was no central
> repository of files since TM Centers also closed shop, relocated, changed
> leadership. National headquarters in Pacific Palisades was supposed to keep
> track of the info sent in on every person taught TM, but it seems lots got
> lost, never filed (very likely), blah blah. The whole TM thing in those days
> was filled with devotion and earnest young people doing their best to follow
> the guidelines...but it was not a streamlined professional org.
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> > In addition to having forms lost or never filed at local or national
> levels, there is another reason that I can think of that a person would not
> be listed as having learned TM - and that would be if the teacher never sent
> the money and forms in to national after the instruction. I am sure it
> happened, but not too often - karma and all.
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> I really doubt any records back any length of time
> are kept or accessible in any way~~which is
> undoubtedly why they ask you your TTC and
> initiator over and over. Or at least they ddid.
> A fun way to check would be to register for
> a course and list a fake initiator. Bet that
> unless someone in the office knew you personally,
> they wouldn't have a clue.
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> Sal
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> I was in the NYC TM center one time, maybe about 15 years after I had been
> initiated. Found all the boxes of 3-days-checking forms, organized by date,
> dug through them, and found my forms. July 25, 1968, Charlotte Peters.
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I believe the NYC TM center is one of the few who still have records going back
all those years. Some years ago I remember seeing thousands of index cards,
all filed alphabetically and going back forever. Somehow, they kept all this
stuff despite relocating many times. I remember Charlotte Peters - great older
lady with red hair and from the SRM days. I believe she continued to check
people (and perhaps teach) on a regular schedule for many many years. .
