From: "Michael Jackson [email protected] [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
Just do what I inadvertently did on my first few residence courses - enjoy the
meditations, enjoy the rest, enjoy the food and company and sleep like hell
through all the "knowledge" tapes.
I really enjoyed the first TM residence courses I attended -- Squaw Valley '68
and '69, Poland Spring, a couple of Humboldts, weekend courses in Toronto --
during the period before I went to TTC. Then when I became a teacher and moved
back to L.A. I kinda developed a rep as a fair-to-middlin' lecturer and Jerry
heard about it and asked me to lead a few residence courses, and as a result
over the next few years I taught quite a few of them, probably dozens all told.
I really loved it, loved being able to create my own "curriculum" for the
course -- following a theme for the whole two days and choosing tapes or videos
accordingly. The Q&As with the course participants after each planned talk are
still my favorite memories of teaching TM -- small, intimate, and manageable.
But then things got bigger, and less fun to teach, at least for me. The closest
I ever got to feeling what it must be like to be a rock star or big-time guru
was teaching the week-long Christmas courses at Asilomar, doing lectures in
front of 700 to 1000 unstressing people. That was INTENSE, and not in all a
good way. I distinctly remember feeling fucked up for a couple of days after
being bombarded with that much attention.
Remembering that experience helps me to feel compassion for gurus and
meditation teachers who started well but got more than a little fucked up along
the way. Even from those brief experiences up on stage at Asilomar, I have
experienced what it *feels like* to have that many amped-up-from-meditation
people focus on you. It's like heroin shakti. I don't see how *any* teacher
manages not to get fucked up from it.
From: salyavin808 <[email protected]>
---In [email protected], <mjackson74@...> wrote :
Were you there just visiting friends, or were you there on a course?
Just visiting some pals. I haven't done a TM course for many decades, I just
don't like the "knowledge" meetings, everything else is great, the food the
company. When the peace palace is built next year it will be a thriving little
community I think.
You might be able to get a job there MJ ;-)
Did you get up out of your chair when the raja entered the room, to show the
proper respect?
I wouldn't ever be in a position where someone dressed like that was expecting
me to stand when they enter the room. The whole "raja" thing was the final
final final last straw for me.
And did the people there know they had what Buck would call a TM apostate in
their midst?
I was discussing the phenomenon of true believerism with my friends and they
were saying there is a mix there of the most devout and people who have gotten
over it to various degrees. To stay so single-pointed for so long takes some
energy. Most people have a flush of absolute TM-ishness and then it wears off
it seems.
But generally I don't talk about what I think unless asked and nor does anyone
else really so I don't really know what people are into there but as the house
prices are so high there you can bet there's a lot of the real movement
die-hards.
Nice place though and it's in a nice part of the country if you ever want to
visit. Nice seaside towns and tea rooms.
From: salyavin808 <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 2:01 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: BEAUTIFULL SLIDESHOW ON STHAPATYA VEDA
I was staying in Rendlesham just a few weeks ago. I really like the houses,
they have a sense of lightness in them due to the windows in every direction
and a nice big hall when you walk in that gives you a sense of space you don't
get in the average semi.
The grid pattern takes some getting used to, my first thought is that the crime
rates in SV developments are bound to be low because having all the windows
line up like that makes you feel like you are being watched.
I like the east facing front door though, it's a very pagan idea designed to
let you know when the solstice has arrived so you can get your crops planted.
And, standing in the front door, you can watch the sun rise behind the gate
posts on the equinoxes. How cool is that?
But is there anything magical about them? You'll have to go and see for
yourself whether you get any sort of buzz out of the place. I think it depends
on sensitivity to environment or maybe how well the TM mythos sunk in when you
were exposed to it full time.
I did get a really nice enlightenment experience when I was there but what to
blame it on? The placement of planets compared to the position of rooms? I
doubt it as the majority of that slide show is of the order of things that mean
- if they are true- everything else we know has to be wrong. And that's an
awful lot of physics and biology that has to go in the bin to account for me
having a trippy time when on holiday in a nice part of the country!
I think you should treat yourself to a weekend course and tell us what you
think.
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---In [email protected], <s3raphita@...> wrote :
Thanks for the slideshow. Pretty.
It's odd how the TMO constantly veers between - on the one hand - scientific
investigation of TM's effects, stress-release physiology, and natural healing
for our psychology and - on the other hand - this occult stuff (like the
sidhis) that must alienate the vast majority of those showing an interest in
meditation.
Unfortunately, my current place has an inauspicious south-facing entrance. That
spells destructive influences, problems and suffering. They called that right!
Aren't cities in the US based on the grid pattern? It's here in Europe that
they are laid out higgledy-piggledy.
Found this article singing the praises of disorder in city planning - "Long may
chaos reign in our streets".http://tinyurl.com/lcwr7pz
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