Dear Robin, Gosh, you don't have to explain yourself at all to me. I believe what you say and I'm content to engage with you as you are now. I wasn't at MIU when you were there. Of course I heard a few stories. And I've read some of the emails here. Also my last X is a Canadian gov. What can I say? Your life has been much more eventful than mine. Even your inner life. I'm sorry if those events, inner and outer, caused you or others unnecessary suffering. I would imagine that as a leader, you would regret causing a student to lose something important to them.
But it's all water under the bridge now. You sound somewhat at peace with it all and I'm happy for you about that. I'm sure the world has need of your gifts. It's never too late to redeem anything and or make amends for any hurt. Or so I believe. But maybe I'm simply having an imperfect hallucination (-: Share ________________________________ From: Robin Carlsen <maskedze...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:37 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices Dear Share, I should just say that in the case of myself I thought I was *completing Maharishi's Teaching*, that my enlightenment produced a context for individual metaphysical drama which had not been anticipated before I went up on that mountain in September 1976—But for all that, *was an innocent as TM*. Indeed, I felt that the form my enlightenment took—in terms of this theatre of individuation of the soul—was the fulfillment of the TM experience—the original one. Certainly when I began to act as a person in Unity, my experience was that the whole universe was getting behind my enlightenment project And I was very anxious, therefore, that Maharishi would eventually endorse what I was doing—explicitly, formally. I never thought of myself as deviating from the purity of the teaching. I thought I was taking the next evolutionary step within the context of TM and Maharishi. It didn't quite work out that way; but when persons were punished—expelled from MIU—for attending my seminars, I thought this was just the drama which would precede the eventual joyful consummation. I was wrong in every sense, of course. But I thought I should mention how I exempt myself from having been any kind of interloper or foreign influence within the TM Movement. I remained utterly devoted to Maharishi right up until I determined that my enlightenment was a form of profound mystical deceitfulness, a perfect hallucination. Robin > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@> wrote: > > Hi Ann and Buck, > > > > > > I'm baffled by all this. I was totally out of the Dome for 7 years, > > 2003 to 2010. During that time I openly participated in lots of stuff in > > FF, including Waking Down in Mutuality for about 3 years. But I had no > > trouble getting back into the Dome. No interrogation room, etc. Also > > through Amma's org, I've been having planetary pujas done for a while now > > plus use her jyotishis. Movement got too expensive and wanted a person to > > supply family info also. Too much of a hassle. And even when I was a > > grad student on campus, I was open about participating in David Deida > > tantric workshops. Again no interrogation room, no subtle threats, etc. > > > > > > All I can figure is that they let me alone because I'm just a sidha, not a > > gov. But I don't know for sure. Now that I'm back in the Dome, > > sometimes friends on campus aren't as friendly as they were. Sometimes > > that hurts. But I sort of understand. And I have friends in town. TSR > > dontcha know. Town Super Radiance. And jokingly means "taking seminars > > regularly." OTOH, truth in jest, etc.  > > Share in town and in Dome... > > Dear Share, > > My take on all this policing of persons who go outside of the spiritual > resources sanctioned by the TM Movement is pretty simple. Those who devise > and enforce these rules (which originated in Maharishi himself) are going by > their first experience of what TM and Maharishi represented: This is The Way; > there is no other way that compares to the TM-Maharishi way. > > TM is defined as the simplest and most natural technique to take one to the > deepest level of one's very being—there is no other practice which is defined > mechanically and objectively such as to afford the most efficient way of > transcending—there are no competitors here. > > The most profound realization one has when one is made a teacher of TM by > Maharishi, is: this is It. There isn't anything else. And if TM cannot do > what it says it does—take one to the level of pure consciousness—then we are > selling a product which does not do what we say it does. > > Any compromise on this policy of guarding "the purity of the teaching" will > mean the gradual corruption of TM and the dilution of Maharishi's Teaching, > That is one thing that Maharishi was able to do that no other teacher in our > lifetime has been able to do: Make us experience that he was the very best, > the only one, and that what he was giving to us was coming directly from > reality or God or the source of creative intelligence. > > Any flexibility, reasonableness, tolerance here just makes no sense at > all—unless the people at the top are giving up their claim to the > exclusiveness of TM as being the most beautiful way to transcend that is > available anywhere. I refer readers (who have done TM) to their first TM > experience. How it happened; what the process was like; how they experienced > the mantra working inside of them. The very miraculous innocence—and > profundity—of this experience signifies: No competition will be > allowed—because what could produce an experience equal to the one you first > had when you started TM? > > I don't say the policy is justified on the basis of TM being what Maharishi > made us believe it was, and what our experiences—at least for > awhile—confirmed, because of course I don't think that TM and Maharishi have > continued to get the grace and support which would indicate that reality and > God still think they are It. But in terms of the truth of one's devotion to > one's Master, and Maharishi brilliant and unchallengeable authority to > persuade us of his preeminent position and status in Creation—and his gift to > us in the form of his spiritual technology—what the TMO is doing in being > careful about vetting persons who meditate in the Dome is not only > reasonable, it is entirely truthful to their conscience, their understanding > of the will of Maharishi, and their own sense of what is the right thing to > do. > > This behaviour on the part of those who wield this authority over meditators > is irreproachable in my estimation. Of course if these persons believed that > there was another path to God, to the Self, to enlightenment, then the > enforcement of these policies would be subject to moral scrutiny. Inside the > context of what they deem as truth and the means of not betraying the wishes > of their Master, they are behaving entirely appropriately—There simply is no > argument to be made against them whatsoever. > > > > ________________________________ > > From: awoelflebater <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:02 PM > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices > > > > > >  > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Om, waht oh. I may lose my Dome badge, again. I got called in by > > > > > the chief inspector the other day over my religious activities with > > > > > non-TM pundits. If it goes badly they'll take my Dome badge away, > > > > > again. It is still in the balance but it is an interesting thing; > > > > > they have these anti-religious practices paragraphs in the Dome > > > > > meditation admission guidelines that are a snare. The paragraphs are > > > > > part of a business plan to coerce people to use TM movement joytish > > > > > astrology and yagya services more exclusively by using the dome > > > > > admission as a punishment. I had an hour long interview in the Peace > > > > > Palace the other day. Some committee that I'll not see will > > > > > adjudicate my case. "We have something in our files, tell us about > > > > > it." > > > > > > > > > > > > How do the TM inspectors [had a good laugh typing that] find out > > > > you are using non-approved "services?" Is there a supergrass in > > > > FF? And what the hell business do you think it is of theirs? > > > > > > > > Hope you tell them to stuff their stupid dome badge. Really, what > > > > is the point of all this if this is the sort of "positivity" that > > > > TM creates? > > > > > > > > > > Sal, how? The 'course office' works it like East German Secret Police > > > Stasi doing case work. They work it all the time. Search local papers > > > for leads, the internet, make interviews, hear conversations in the Domes > > > or meal hall on campus or around, some people also feel it their duty to > > > tell them things, and then they squeeze people. They make files and > > > network the files. These are TM career people who are very good at what > > > they do. These are apparatchiks who are unquestioningly loyal > > > subordinates. For them it is about enforcing the guidelines. If they > > > had better guidelines they would enforce them too. It is a lot like > > > being confronted with that German officer investigator actor in > > > Inglorious Bastards. > > > http://voices.yahoo.com/inglorious-bastards-using-tarantinos-movie-teaching-5616344.html > > > > > > That's the course office and the system that set it up. Evidently it is > > > the best we have to work with. > > > > > > > Wow Buck, you put up with a lot in order to be able to meditate in the Dome > > and operate within the confines of the TM secret police. I had no idea. If > > any of this had been going on back in 1976-1980 I would have been out of > > there, real fast. I guess what you gain is worth this kind of terrible, > > freedom-squelching monitoring? Is this for real? I haven't been paying > > attention or following any of this at FFL so I am a bit shocked now that I > > actually read one of these posts. I guess you need the collective group > > energy that the dome provides when you do your siddhis? You couldn't just > > sort of hop around in your own home and essentially be flipping these > > Nazi's a bird at the same time as you burn your dome badge? Jeezuz, I would > > love to be in Fairfield just to give these assholes a run for their money. > > I could think of all sorts of fun scenarios because, frankly, I wouldn't > > give a damn and just the opportunity to raise a couple of hackles on these > > guy's backs > > would be worth the price of admission. Good luck with that. But remember, > > certain things are only worth so much boot licking. > > >
