On 10/25/2014 6:04 AM, TurquoiseBee [email protected] [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
We've certainly seen a similar 'tude in the TM movement. Anyone who
paid their dues and spent time as a TM teacher (meaning NOT Jim
Flanegin, Lawson, Judy Stein, Richard Williams and those other
poseurs) has been exposed to all of the carefully-planted memes about
the terrible things that will happen to them if they ever stopped
meditating or (horrors!) fell Off The Program. THAT is Apocalypse
Porn, too, just on a smaller level.
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Cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by
an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or
values at the same time.
/"I am essentially of the buddhist persuasion, and as such believe
neither in a "first creation" nor a Creator." /- Uncle Tantra
alt.religion.gnostic:
http://tinyurl.com/o3q9zwa
/'The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation through Hearing in
the Bardo'/
by Chogyam Trungpa and Francesca Fremantle
http://tinyurl.com/nj3dy9m
