Curioser and curioser... Barry wrote: > My point is that the "marketing approach" of the TMO is that of > cultists, while pitching their product to non-cultists. Many (including > some of this forum) seem to equate "TMers" with "TM-Sidhas practicing in > a group."
Who on this forum does that? > They seem to believe that the leap from 20 minutes twice a day > and an average of four hours per day (including travel time) is "No > Biggie," and that everyone that wants to learn TM wants to learn to > butt-bounce and spend that much time away from their real life, too. Anybody here believe this? > I'm merely pointing out that this is an assumption made by people who > *themselves* in most cases gravitated to the four-hours-a-day lifestyle > after *decades* of indoctrination by the TM movement. Probably not nearly as long as "decades." > They've actually come to believe that such a schedule is "normal." Anybody here believe this? > It ain't. And very few people who have...uh...lives will see it that > way, either. They *might* be open to learning a simple, > 20-minutes-twice-a-day relaxation technique, but if the first thing that > happens when they go to a TM center for their followup is that people > start hustling them to learn the Sidhis and do them in a group, they're > gonna smell cult. Is that "the first thing that happens"? And even if it were, they've already learned the technique, and they know they can just go off and do it on their own for 20 minutes twice a day without engaging in any cult-like activities. So what's the problem? What does any of this have to do with how basic TM is marketed?
