I'm conflicted now. Upon reflection, he wasn't THAT disgusting...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" <awoelflebater@...> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ <no_reply@> wrote:
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> > Me? With the skin infection guy? Nah, he wasn't interested.
> >
> > He was definitely sending mixed signals, though -- standing in my room, one
> > o'clock in the morning, and *insisting* on rolling up his shirt sleeves, to
> > show me his diseased dermis. Then he says, "I'm not contagious", and I was
> > tired, but I think he winked at me when he said it.
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> I think it was his way of ensuring he would end up with a private room. He
> probably used that trick on all his new roommates!
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Seraphita" <s3raphita@> wrote:
> > >
> > > When you said, "I was there, briefly", at first I thought you were
> > > referring to the Florida celibate TM men enjoying the adulation of
> > > female movement "groupies" drawn to the hard-to-getness. I was going to
> > > ask you if you got lucky.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> > > >
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@
> > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Ex-Followers Demonstrate Against
> > > > > TM
> > > > >
> > > > > From "Grounding
> > > > > the Guru," by Susan Gervasi, City Paper (Washington, DC), 7/13/90;
> > > > > 14,16.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 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.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 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.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 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.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 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.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 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.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 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."
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 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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