God I remember the days when I and my TM friends really believed that everyone
would one day wake up to the glory of TM and TMSP and everyone would be doing
it, and the world would be happy. We utterly ignored the experience that most
of us were struggling in various ways financial, relationships and health just
to name three.
It was delusional.
From: "TurquoiseBee [email protected] [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 8, 2015 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The Culture of Organizational Groups/Sociology
From: "Michael Jackson [email protected] [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]> Sigh. You are right, the story isn't over
yet. Bevan and his cronies have not yet paid for all their enormities, David
Lynch has not yet cracked up in public and been carted off to a mental
institution, Girish has not yet gone to prison for his various crimes, nor has
he finished stealing as much of the Indian Movement's assets as he can, John
Hagelin has not yet agreed to publicly debate real physicists and get horribly
embarrassed, nor has he had to face the music for his abuse of his position as
professor at MUM, the Movement has not withered away to the point where Girish
and the Srivastavas brothers sell off the lands of the MUM campus, but it is
all coming.
I can't disagree with your visions of TM's future, Michael, but today all I can
feel is sadness for the people like Doug whose sense of self and identity are
so stuck in the past that they are unable to move past it and live in the
present. They live on dreams of how glorious it all was back when they were
young and part of what they considered not only a community but a "movement,"
one that would change the world forever. They felt important and as if they
were at the center of great events, and doing something that would be
remembered forever.
And now they find themselves in a world that has all but forgotten Maharishi.
His name is a quite literally a joke in spiritual circles and the only people
who still believe he taught anything of value are the hangers-on in Fairfield
and in other closed TM societies. They seem to live for the day that the world
will wake up and recognize their folly at laughing at Maharishi and at them for
following him, and will praise them the way they still think of themselves --
as noble bringers of a new age and happiness and light and bliss and ice cream
for everybody.
In other words, they're fuckin' delusional.
Some people get wiser as they get older, and closer to death. Others, fearing
that they might have wasted their lives believing in things the world no longer
values, start to panic and cling even more desperately to the dreams of their
glorious youth.
I don't know about you, but I prefer spending the rest of *my* incarnation with
people who live in the present, not in dreams of the past and how important
they think they were in that past. I really can't justify interacting with Doug
and people who think like him any more, because it seems to only encourage them
to invest more heavily in their delusions, as opposed to shaking them off.
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