Peer-pressure can be a double edged thing cutting two ways like with some of those who actively hate TM out in the world now. But there is a lot of middle ground, the middle-way. Seems a lot of meditators living in town here acknowledge they are meditators when you ask them; just not 'that' pointing towards campus or Vedic City. Same thing in interviewing old TM movement meditators out in the world while on field trips to research the popular spiritual movements of the lady-saints. There is a large reality to that middle ground of meditators and the old 'retired' TM teachers who are simple practitioners away from the TM movement. In that way this is a challenge of the rapprochement the TM organization has in facing the meditating community. A lot of water has more clearly gone under the bridge and over the waterfall flowing on for all to see. That is a challenge for TM given the post-modern world of data and information flowing fast and out of control. Welcome to the new post-modern tech world of data and transparency going forward. "Ethics as A Leading Economic Indicator? What Went Wrong? ..” TM like Israel evidently is in the midst of wrestling with its past going forward, -Buck
rap·proche·ment: an establishment or resumption of harmonious relations. turquoiseb writes: Looking through Internet portals today, and finding article after article after article written by Jews who obviously feel that they "have to" speak up to defend the State of Israel's actions in Gaza, I was struck by how similar this situation must be for these "Jews in name only" to the situation of the "TMers in name only" who post to FFL from time to time. It's like the "Jews in name only" who suddenly feel the need to go public with their support of Israel are subliminally saying, "I *HATE* what these greedy, Zionist Israeli fucktards are doing in the name of 'being Jewish.' I *HATE* that when I meet people and they learn that I'm Jewish they immediately think that I'm one of *those* kinda Jews -- the ones who slaughter children and deprive non-Jews of their rights. But I'm so stuck in the rut of 'being Jewish' that I feel I have no other path than to pretend to support an organization (the State of Israel) that I neither like, nor support." I guess I'm suggesting that a few people who seem to be posting here on FFL in support of the TMO are feeling the same peer pressure, and caving in to it. Just a theory...
