---In [email protected], <punditster@...> wrote:
Maybe you are confusing a personality with practice. And, it may be that you
never practiced TM - you were and still are practicing "Guru Yoga". In fact,
MMY has nothing to do with your transcending, or not.
Complain; shift blame; be bitter.
On 12/5/2013 10:48 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
I know that there is still the mind set that no matter what M may have done
that wasn't ethical, the effect of TM and TMSP is so good and so powerful, it
is best to ignore or rationalize that the negative or dark side of M and the
Movement is outweighed by the vast positive benefit to the individual and the
world.
I know there is that mind set but I don't agree with it. I do not see any
evidence the group practice of TMSP is having any kind of effect of offsetting
the "negative" energy around the world. If you take the current state of the
world as evidence of Marshy effect then it is clear the Marshy Effect is either
non-existent or a colossal failure.
I have come to feel that TM itself seems to work well for a couple years and
then for some reason the positive benefits seem to fade away. I mean even old
timers like Rick don't just strictly do TM - they do other stuff. If TM is so
fabulous, people would not step away from it.
There have been too many suicides, too many mental breakdowns and too many
high ups in the Movement whose behavior is the opposite of what you would
expect from folks practicing daily the royal technique for enlightenment. That
last is of great importance to me. I don't feel you can make the grandiose
claims for a mental technique and have the actual results be totally off base
or totally different than what is promised and still legitimately believe the
technique will do what is claimed for it.
When the people who have been doing TMSP the longest behave in the arrogant,
elitist, unethical manner I have seen in people like Hagelin, Morris, Greg
Wilson, Susan Humphries, Chris Crowell, Neal Patterson, Bill Sands, Reed Martin
and so on and so forth I see that the TMSP has had the OPPOSITE effect on their
behavior that it should have had.
So while I admire your desire to change the world, it won't change through
folks doing TM and TMSP - if it was going to do so, it would already have done
it.
The state to the world today is a testament to Marshy's monumental failure to
make significant changes in world consciousness through his programs. Of
course, I believe his real program was to make himself into a demigod in
people's minds, make tons of money for himself and his family and get laid a
whole bunch while he was still young enough to enjoy it, so he actually did
have the effect he wanted to have, it just wasn't the effect he promoted in
public.
I think one can only be so disappointed in a result or outcome of something if
one has put one's full belief in it. I just never totally "fell" for or
believed all of the things that the Movement and MMY promised. The ME, the
flying all of that I took with a shaker of salt because I know that life rarely
delivers, in full, what is promised by human beings. I am not an idealist and I
never have been - so far. Idealists are those who are in danger of falling the
hardest when circumstances don't pan out as promised. There is nothing wrong
with being an idealist but there are probably more bitter and cynical idealists
out there than there are bitter, cynical skeptics.
