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To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 6:11 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was This Already Posted? M: That was an excellent article. It nails one of the most destructive aspects of what I call the prison of specialness in the movement. Sidha means perfection. Ideal society, perfect health, invincibility, immortality, the list of unwarranted superlatives goes on and on. All in the cause of pretending we are not what we are, flawed humans with a limited understanding of what is going on in life, doing the best we can. It is a propensity for "front'n extra large" that would make the most bombastic rapper blush! Thanks for posting it. I agree, although I didn't see it until I discovered the link in Curtis' response. Find more articles like this one, Ann, and I might have to start reading your posts again. :-) I also agree with Curtis that it's an excellent article in many respects, not least of which is the author's ability to convey to "straight people" reading the article who have never been a part of a spiritual community some of the internal pressures that can arise in one. I felt her approach throughout the entire article was very compassionate, in addition to being good journalism. As for your comments, Curtis, I also couldn't agree more. The myths of perfection that entertwined themselves with the literature of enlightenment over the years have caused *such* an environment of pretense. Maharishi pretends to be perfect and the initiators let him because they're busy pretending to be perfect themselves to attract new students. And *everybody* is busy pretending to be perfect to the press. It's all one big The Emperor's New Clothes clusterfuck. :-)
