Ha-ha! It was always pretty rustic.
--- In [email protected], Tom Pall <thomas.pall@...> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:03 PM, whynotnow7 <whynotnow7@...> wrote:
>
> > "The movement belongs to those who move. Those who were stuck on the idea
> > that the movement and the TMO were ONLY about the 7-step program were,
> > well, stuck. I think M and TM were always a moving target about gateways to
> > consciousness and purifying collective consciousness, via a lot of
> > different avenues."
> >
> > Exactly. I was initiated in late 75, then in 78 I worked for the Movement
> > in LManor, for $5 per month and an unheated cabin, just after it became a
> > men's only facility, working in the kitchen and the A of E press for a
> > year. We were hosting Guv training courses with the flying technique then
> > too - lots of whooping and hollering! The staff meditators went on
> > residence courses one weekend a month and normally had a 2x2 daily
> > schedule, but the siddhis were taught in blocks then, and I wasn't selected
> > for the first block.
> >
> > Came back to work for the Movement in mid 79 to mid 80, about 100 miles
> > east of Kansas City, MO, building a 30 room residence course and flying
> > hall facility, farming 14 acres of organic strawberries, and tending a 10
> > acre apple orchard and pressing facility next door. Got the Siddhis as
> > work/study, with a $25/mo. stipend, living out of an unheated garage, and
> > then a trailer. Didn't pay any taxes that year either...:-)
> >
> > Then one more time around 82, I went to work for the Missouri facility
> > again, decided I wanted to be a teacher, applied for TTC, then took a much
> > closer look at what the Movement was, and how different it was from where I
> > wanted to be, so I left, and that was that.
> >
> > I continued to do the TM-Sid program for another 12 years, went on my last
> > course in the early 90's - that big DC one, then did TM until about March
> > of this year, when the practice just fell off and wasn't missed (though
> > always available).
> >
> >
> >
> I worked on the Houston (Navasota, Grimes County) capital for room and
> board. And yes, shared an unheated cabin. Barhroom was the bushes
> outside. Yes, it gets cold in Texas during the Winter. Maharishi was
> absolutely right. The movement belongs to those who move large quantities
> of cash across national borders, undetected.
>
