In reality, there is no "TMO" - that's just an acronym made up in order to relate to the policies of the MUM administration in Fairfield, IA. It means nothing to the vast majority of TM practitioners worldwide. The phrase TMO implies that there is an organization, sensibly managed by intelligent and practical movement leaders.
Is it a university, a business, or a sectarian religious movement? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <olliesedwuz@...> wrote : It seems like a fair enough demarcation to say that those who have set themselves up as teachers of another discipline would not be compatible with ongoing Dome TM-Sidhis programs. As Ken Kesey famously said, "you're either on the bus or off the bus...". Rather than make it an edict though, with spying and all of that, the interference of other programs should be clearly explained in a non-judgmental way, and then self-enforced. Instead of making it a value judgment, the science behind it could be clarified. The TMO made it a holier than thou issue and that f'ed everything up - Perhaps a higher consciousness at the helm will help. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : The 'non-compete' clauses. A sad irony in this thread which has been sore effect for the community here is that these recognized experts and a lot of jyotish experts who have come out of the old ™ community with their early training in Maharishi jyotish are technically disbarred, disenfranchised by guideline, from membership participation in our ™ community group meditations. The Maharishi Foundation ™.org National standards for participation as they stand now specifically exclude people who ‘promote’ other systems of jyotish, excluding from the Dome meditations here and other sponsored ™ group meditations. 'Other systems' as in non-Maharishi jyotish. This has been applied to old ™’ers for quite a number of years. For some number of years the patronizing ($) non-Maharishi jyotish/yagya was certain grounds for exclusion from the Dome meditations and used to exclude practicing meditators from membership in the group. Meditators are now free to ‘consult’ with non-maharishi jyotishi but the exclusion still stands over ‘promoting’ in practice jyotish using other systems deemed non-Maharishi jyotish astrology. A conservative or fanatical business mind that is welded with strong emotional (fanatical) belief inside about the exclusivity of all ™ teachers are thinking that all old, de-certs, re-certs and new ™ teachers are sales representatives of all that is now ™ and hence are strictly liable to business non-compete constraints through the movement right to administratively denying membership using the validation of Dome badges for inclusion in the communal group practice of meditation as a preferred means of sales-force discipline. In effect what could be adjudicated by a human resources department or a legal department more narrowly with employees they instead have used the group meditation as the retributive means (weapon) of disciplining others to their sense of fealty. Employing the use of the group practice of meditation as their primary tool of discipline over membership has been incredibly corrosive in their bold leading of a decades long decline in a metric of what was a larger group. It is still a fundamental problem within the group. -JaiGuruYou
