Buck schticks (at least I hope it's schtick):
>
> Kapor evidently gets angry and leaves everything. Story
> of his life evidently. And, you are using him as a witness
> against something? You are cherry picking. Did you
> actually read the Kapor interview through? Rick Archer
> on his interview show about spirituality, Batgap.com just
> interviewed a psychiatrist about this kind of thing. This
> guy Kapor sounds predisposed in life to have problems
> where ever he goes. 20 minutes twice a day of meditation
> with liberal pranayama should proly be good enough for
> him.
Buck, you (or your altered-state ego) would have been perfect
as course leaders of long residence courses back then. What-
ever course participants complain of -- *whatever* it is -- it
can be cured by pranayama and more (or less) TM.
And I understand. Back when I worked at the Regional Office,
I was such a TB that the implications of how we were running
those courses never occurred to me. We never -- NEVER -- gave
any thought to what we'd do if something serious came up on
one of our courses. We had no liability insurance, no doctors
on call, and no list of what the course leaders should actually
*do* if someone started "heavily unstressing," other than the
aforementioned "more (or less) TM and pranayma." Maybe
more asanas. And definitely a checking. Everyone knows that
a TM checking can cure anything.
In retrospect we were incredibly naive, and dangerously so.
But we had all bought into that core dogma thang -- "TM is
100% life-supporting." We didn't have to plan for negative
situations because by definition on a course on which every-
one was practicing TM nothing negative could ever happen.
I suspect that some here will dispute this. I further suspect
that those doing so didn't spend much time on long rounding
courses, and by "long" I mean in excess of six weeks. Those
long courses in Europe didn't have any liability or medical
insurance, either, and they certainly didn't have a team of
reliable doctors on call. But of course there was no *need*
for those things, because by definition on a TM course
nothing bad could happen. The Laws Of Nature just
wouldn't allow it.
And if anything bad *did* happen, no problemo. Whatever
it is, it can be cured with pranayama and more (or less) TM.
Maybe a checking.
--- In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote:
that is an excellent description, Barry - I never thought of TM as a
drug with side effects but I reckon that is what it is. Like a soma
pill, with side efects!
From: turquoiseb <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 3:30 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mitchell Kapor
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@>
wrote:
> >
> > So during the course nothing substantive was done for
> > these folks? I mean beyond telling them to do more
> > asanas or something?
>
> Depends on the course. On small ATR courses, no
> nothing in particular was really done. On larger
> courses, they might have been referred to one of
> the resident quacks...uh...I mean doctors.
>
> But it was clear that no real effort was made to
> help any of these people who were twitching
> uncontrollably or having symptoms that looked
> for all the world like Tourette syndrome or
> worse, because the prevailing myth was always
> "TM is 100% life supporting." No one was willing
> to go up against that and add, "...for many
> people, but for others, it may cause problems."
>
> Anyone I ever spoke to who was going through this
> commented on the "Blame the victim" mentality they
> were exposed to. It was always, "What are YOU
> doing wrong that this is happening to you? We
> all 'know' that it 'shouldn't' be happening."
Just to follow up, Michael, here's the essential
conundrum posed by all of this. I worked for some
time in the West Coast Regional Office of the TMO,
arranging all the weekend and longer residence
courses. On the one hand, we were told by MMY's
core dogma that TM was "100% life supporting," and
that it could not *possibly* have any negative
effects. Simply can't happen.
On the other hand, as part of what we did for the
TMO, we were asked to tell the course leaders and
course participants that while they were on the
course, they could not drive, they could not even
leave the facility, on longer courses they could
not go anywhere even on the facility grounds unless
they were accompanied by their "buddy," and that
they definitely shouldn't make any important
decisions while they were on the course because
their judgment might be impaired.
If a drug had that many admitted side effects,
you wouldn't be able to sell it without a
prescription.
