--- In [email protected], "Ingegerd"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Gerbal88 made some comment about the intelligent people FFL
> > > has attracted. Seems to me MMY deserves the credit for that.
> > > He attracted a bunch of intelligent people. But I would add
> > > that perhaps the most intelligent, in a certain sense, have
> > > now distanced themselves from the TMO and some of those
> > > find FFL useful or entertaining.
> >
> > Plus, they are allowed to *express* that intelligence
> > here freely, without fear of being declared apostate
> > or hounded out of the movement for *using* their
> > intelligence.
>
> I think that the TMO is desperate. One person called me to
> learn TM. He had been in contact with a recert. TM-Teacher
> who said that if he learned from an Independent TM-Teacher -
> he would be hit by a curse.
> I really wonder what is going on inside the TMO.
I'm not sure "desparate" is the right word. To be
desparate, you have to be to some extent in touch
with reality. "Clueless" might be more apt. Or
"suffering from 'shut-in' syndrome."
The "curse" thing is pretty weird, though. One wonders
whether the teachers in question thought that up them-
selves or whether it's part of some deranged "party
line." I'd bet on the former. It's the kind of thing
that people who are clinging to a dream say to those
who have woken up from it.
I see a similar phenomenon on a.m.t. and some of the
other spiritual groups in which TBs interface with
those who are no longer TBs. The TBs keep saying
things like, "Why these people are *really* here
talking to us is because they're terrified that they
made the wrong decision by leaving."
It's a pretty common phenomenon in spiritual circles.
You keep people "in the fold" by telling them all the
bad things that will happen to them if they leave.
And then you propagate the myth that bad things *have*
happened to those who have left, which is made more
easy by declaring these people "off limits" or
"persona non grata," because not many TBs will then
actually talk to the apostates to find out any differently.
The whole TB phenomenon is based on considering oneself
"special" -- unique in the universe and essential to it.
The more people who reject that "specialness" and move
on, the harder it is to keep up the illusion. So these
types of things ("curses," bad things happening to
those who leave, etc.) get more prevalent.
But again, I'm not sure that the TBs feel consciously
"desparate." They've just been trained to look down
on anyone who isn't as "special" as they are. To be
honest, the more a TB is criticized, the more "special"
he feels -- there is nothing like the feeling of being
"persecuted" to make one feel all special and full of
self-importance.
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