--- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Susan" <wayback71@> wrote: > > > > I would not be so hard on the folks that bought in to this > > stuff in the TMO. Many had doubts but were afraid to voice > > them. We all have our "stuff" and we were young and devoted > > and I think this was a time when you were with Rama, who > > also had his own peculiar version of bat shit crazy crap. > > Absolutely. I'm just having fun seeing how a few > people react to having their behavior described > the way someone not part of the TM movement might > see and describe it. My guess is that for many of > them it may be a novel experience. >
Yep - we all became professional grade " modifiers" of what was really going on in the TMO. We got to be to be very very very good at knowing how to explain it all so as not to have people think you were all into something truly weird. What is interesting is that in the last few years people are much more open to this type of approach to life. The mainstream Presbyterian church near my house is having a large alternative medicine all-day fair soon - tables with tai chi, acupuncture, zen meditation, chiropractors, herbalists, yoga etc. It is a far cry from million dollar crowns and robes and rajas which will be suspect until about 50 years from now, when it will be a memory and a story told with awe about MMY's last wishes (that is if anyone is talking about TM 50 years from now). It could grow and gain momentum and seem pretty amazing and far out especially since no one will have actually been there to know how it all really went down.
