--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > on 11/14/05 9:23 AM, L B Shriver at > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > snip > > >> > > >> As noted, Shankar had broken with the TMO > > sometime not > > >> long prior to 1994, so the "sweet poison" warning > > >> would have had to have been issued at some point > > in > > >> between then and 1998. > > >> > > > ******** > > > > > > 1993 at the DC course. > > > > Around that time, my friend Dean Draznin was > > appointed or volunteered to > > walk into a Ravi Shankar meeting in the DC area and > > read a prepared > > statement, written either by Maharishi or some TMO > > higher up (I can check > > with Dean if anyone really wants to know). That > > statement included the > > phrase that SSRS was offering people "sugar-coated > > poison". > > I heard about this incident from Ronnie Newman, former > TMer who was and still working for SSRS. She saw Dean > and said hi and asked what he was doing there. When > Dean tried to speak she told him not to. Dean was > trying to be rude by calling SSRS, Mr. Shankar and > denouncing his actions because he did not talk about > his past association with the TMO. It was like when a > "Christian" fundamentalist would show up at a TM intro > lecture and speak with such great conviction about how > they were right and you were wrong. The poor audience > is usually left completely baffled by this display of > spiritual arrogance. > >
Also shows poor taste, poor judgement, etc. Its a variation of street preaching, and door to door evangelism, which MMY always denounced as beneath the TMO. Very sad. Its also what the TMO and MAPI accused Andrew Skolnick of doing in their lawsuit against him. Beyond sad. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
