Yeah, but I was there a day longer than you were.:-)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@...> wrote:
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> But you were only there for a day! I posted it cause I am a history buff.
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> From: "doctordumbass@..." <doctordumbass@...>
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 12:32 PM
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bet it was a nice party
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> I was there, briefly. The last big course I attended. The administration and
> assignment of rooms for participants was unprofessional, inefficient, and
> highly political - like some third world backwater.
>
> After waiting five hours (5:30 PM to 10:30 PM) at the hotel, for my reserved
> and paid for, single room, I was finally given a dorm room on the other side
> of town, shared with some guy with a skin infection, who woke me up at 1 AM,
> to move in. I left the course the next day.
>
> As for the demonstrators mentioned in this article, they must have phoned it
> in, because nobody, including me, saw any of them.
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@> wrote:
> >
> > Ex-Followers Demonstrate Against
> > TM
> > Â
> > From "Grounding
> > the Guru," by Susan Gervasi, City Paper (Washington, DC), 7/13/90;
> > 14,16.
> > Â
> > Â Â Â
> > More than 800 members of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental
> > Meditation, attending a week-long convention at Washington, DC's
> > Omni-Shoreham Hotel in June, faced the protest of members of TM-EX, an
> > informal
> > anti-TM group that educates the public about TM and offers "exit
> > counseling" to
> > those who want out of the movement.
> > Â
> > Â Â Â
> > One TM-EX, former 15-year follower Curtis Mailloux, a 33-year-old real
> > estate
> > broker from Fairfax, VA, denounced the organization as a cultist religion
> > that
> > is exploitative, deceptive, and damaging. Mailloux is a 1979 graduate of
> > Maharishi International University, in Fairfield, IA, who in 1985 became
> > head of
> > TM's Washington Center.
> > Â
> > Â Â Â
> > TM-EXers do not dispute that TM can be an effective relaxation technique,
> > though
> > they say it is no better than similar relaxation regimens. The danger in
> > TM,
> > they say, comes when the discipline takes over the meditators'
> > lives.
> > Â
> > Â Â Â
> > TM-EX member Joe Kelley said: "When we started we were told it was a
> > simple,
> > effortless technique for releasing stress with no religious implications.
> > Initially, it was a 20 minute technique." But by taking advanced residence
> > courses and other activities, "I was effectively made into a Hindu
> > believer,"
> > said Kelley.
> > Â
> > Â Â Â
> > Former TM teacher Diane Hendel, who has sued the organization for fraud and
> > extortion, said the many bizarre mental experiences she had were considered
> > a
> > sign of spiritual superiority. "I saw little creatures with wings" during
> > intensive meditation periods, she related. "They were like my pets. They'd
> > tell
> > me things." She was encouraged to believe that these winged beasties were
> > "devas" -- Hindu spirits of nature. "I began not to be able to tell who was
> > a
> > person and who was a deva," she said. Hendel sought counseling, eventually
> > quit
> > meditating, and left the movement.
> > Â
> > Â Â Â
> > Mailloux said involvement in the movement becomes "a prison of specialness.
> > Especially as a leader in the movement, there's no way you can leave this
> > group
> > and be [regarded by other devotees as] OK or leave with dignity... I was
> > only
> > special as a nervous system which is a 'generator of purity,' not as an
> > individual."
> > Â
> > Â Â Â
> > Mailloux's "specialness"earned him three years in Florida with a group of
> > celibate TM men, living monastically within the movement, where he enjoyed
> > the
> > adulation of female movement "groupies" drawn to his hard-to-getness -- a
> > common
> > ego-trip among the celibates, he said. Some movement women with low
> > self-esteem,
> > he added, tend to get fixated on these celibate men and get milked for
> > donations
> > to support them.
> >
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