Yup, that would be a 'Meditator Spring' thawing of the Rajas.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" <wayback71@...> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 <no_reply@> wrote:
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote:
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> > > More proactively, it seems to me that this would be
> > > the basis for a successful class action lawsuit.
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> > > *No one* was ever told before learning the TM-Sidhis
> > > (a *huge* component of which is being able to practice
> > > them in a group) that they would be banned from such
> > > groups if they saw other spiritual teachers.
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> > I don't know about american law,and if this constitutes a fraud in the eyes
> > of the law. But if anyone wants to sue the TM for this, they better hurry
> > up, as long as there is still a TMO around.
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> > I don't know if the leading class of the TMO knows how late it is. Fast,
> > very fast the current administration is approching ultimate nirvana, with
> > not much coming behind.Think 10 or 15 years ahead of time, there won't be
> > much of the TMO left, there are very few youngsters, and - well the school
> > kids, but exactly where will they be, and how much they will stand behind
> > the whole project has to be still seen.
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> > Therefore, to make TM again acceptable to a broader audience is not an
> > issue that has a lot of time to wait for.
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> > I am not saying, that if you resolve the whole saint issue, the TM movement
> > will be saved, of course not. But it is one of those symptomatic things,
> > where the TMO has to change, in order to be again more accessable, and less
> > cultish, if it wants to ever survive.
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> Yes, time is very limited for the TMO. They would also need to change other
> things. If they want to bring in new and somewhat normal younger people to
> the practice of TM, I think they would have to do away with the whole raja
> and crowns thing as well. Also the expensive pricing of some courses. These
> folks have been locked in the unreal world of TM culture for so long, they
> don't really know how these policies and practices come across.
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> > > This "oversight," combined with a present-day policy
> > > that says and enforces just that, could probably be
> > > seen as constituting fraud on the part of the TMO. My
> > > bet is if anyone has the balls to file such a lawsuit,
> > > you could find any number of lawyers willing to take
> > > it on. Heck, ACLU lawyers would probably do it for
> > > free.
> > >
> > > And my bet is that if such a suit were filed, the
> > > "policy" would go away overnight. There is no way that
> > > the TMO could conceivably win such a suit, and they'd
> > > be terrified to allow it to reach court, and thus the
> > > eyes and ears of the press and potential big-name
> > > shills like Oprah and Ellen.
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> > Yes, the policy would go overnight. It is already clear, that to the TMO,
> > not the single sidha/governor matters, who sits in the dome and has just
> > seen a saint. No, it is the talking about it, that matters to them. If you
> > lie and keep quiet, you are a good boy/girl, the problem is really the
> > effect it has on the others, who get to know about it. They are fearing
> > this kind of collective thing. But then, if they could be more liberal,
> > more grandious, more self-aware, they would do much better. I doubt this
> > will be the case, and nobody on the top position has the guts to change
> > anything. They are busy, but they just keep themselves busy like any
> > administration.
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