---In [email protected], <mjackson74@...> wrote:
You are right Buck, the TMO IS different now - it is much more of a cult than it was when I started in 1974. If you can look at these idiots wearing robes and gold crowns who practice and follow every Hindu religious observance and holiday and not see it as a cult, then you have been snorting too much sheep dip. "Cult" can be just another word for family. Or community. Or support system. Question, which of these do not involve cult characteristics: The military Life in a monastery Life in a fraternity or sorority membership in the Masons membership in a gang life in FF Iowa I think the word "cult" is so loaded and has taken on such negative connotations that people can fail to see the few positive aspects of what cults are. For many, it is just a way of life, a way to stay feeling secure and a vehicle to stay surrounded by like-minded others. It isn't always a group headed by a brainwashing "leader" who controls everyone's every move - but it can be. I think lots of people seek out places where they feel like they are respected, understood, accepted and where common interests are pursued. These are just some of the insecurities and "weaknesses" that humans exhibit in various ways and at various times. I am not defending the TMO or cults, just saying that the word "cult" is often used to trigger a reaction, just as is the word "religion". -------------------------------------------- On Sat, 2/15/14, dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... <dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace To: [email protected] mailto:[email protected] Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 5:49 AM Shame on you MHJ. Om, First-Class Bull-Manure you Spread Wide and spread Thick here, MHJ. This TM now is not a “cult” no more as much as you might like to declare that it is. As we used to explain in the olde days, “Om no, TM is not a 'cult' like christian cults or the people's-temple may be; TM is way too dis-organized to be that. . It's about meditation and the evident scientific spiritual value of meditation”. MJ, there is something malevolent in what you do to something that is so good in itself as what is simply transcending meditation. In this new corporate-post-charismantic-era, Transcendental Meditation is plainly now different. Your commentary is clearly out of date. I appreciate that it takes a long time for the current news to travel to the hollers and plantations of South Carolina but clearly you are out of it. -Buck in the Dome mjackson74 writes: I shall begin an immediate campaign to have it removed from Whole Goods (sic) so they don't support cults. The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/ http://vediccoffee.com/ ---In [email protected] mailto:[email protected], <mjackson74@...> wrote: I shall begin an immediate campaign to have it removed from Whole Goods so they don't support cults. -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 2/14/14, Buck> wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace To: [email protected] mailto:[email protected] Date: Friday, February 14, 2014, 11:52 PM The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/ http://vediccoffee.com/
