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> --- In [email protected], nablusoss1008 <no_reply@> wrote:
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> > --- In [email protected], "Buck" wrote:
> > >
> > > Really nice TM Guru Purnima meeting in the Dome last nite for Badge
> > > holders or course office vetted only. Nothing so secret though was said
> > > that the rank-and-file movement's meditator or even just any public
> > > non-meditator would not have been inspired by. Was evidently a lost
> > > opportunity to have asked the old meditators of the community back in
> > > like the old days. However, John Hagelin gave a wonderful presentation
> > > of how the movement is doing. Much progress has been made since he
> > > re-oriented things from the time of Maharishi's death [2008]. The
> > > movement is doing quite well in modern retrofit. You all should take
> > > another look at http://www.tm.org/about-us TM.org. TM is on a
> > > comeback and that is very exciting regardless of any of the past
> > > controversies. Moving forward,
> > > -Buck in the Dome
> >
> > Very nice, thanks for the report Buck :-)
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> Yup the meeting invitation was quite so emblematic of the two long-term
> elements of TM, progressives as practitioners who in good faith would like to
> see it work out and then the more strict faith-based preservationists who
> want to test people against their faith. Inclusive v exclusive. The
> interesting thing is that evidently by this invitation and the usual 'fuck
> ewe' ending there has been no effective change of balance at the top about
> this. The hardline or strict preservationists seem still have a stronger
> hand than the progressives. The interesting thing is that there has not
> been a change of feeling about this at the top on the Bevan side. This is
> not new.
> -Buck
>
Yep not new. This elemental split in TM shows back even in the beginning posts
on FFL.
