I'm still a meditator (2x daily for 20 minutes since 1975). Used to do the Siddhis, but the time investment got way to large for the return. Does this put me in the TB camp. Fine. I don't really care one way or the other. Lately, I'm here for the book, film and tv recommendations since this is a pretty damn smart group in spite of the histrioncs.
I've been mostly a lurker here over the years and I would hvae to agree that the state of forum has sadly declined. Some issues really get my goat and so I speak up. Free speech is one. The right to know is another. I see a general decline in civility everywhere these days, though, not just here. Somebody tell Kanye to just STFU, please, or get his own show on Comedy Central. There is orchestrated trend right now to try to smear by association. It's a very old trick, but folks still use it because it works. It's being applied to the anti GMO folks by trying to associate them with the anti vaxers, the global warming denyers and the "we never went to the moon" nonsense. Truth be known, it's just the opposition trying to change the narrative away from them.
