--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > > > > The notion that the TMO was spied upon and > > > > infiltrated by the CIA doesn't strike me as > > > > all that unlikely, as I suggested in another > > > > post. It's just that if that were the case, > > > > it would have been for very different reasons > > > > than MMY imagined--either because the CIA > > > > thought MMY was teaching some paranormal > > > > technique that could be useful militarily, or > > > > because they thought the *TMO* was a front > > > > for spying or for communist activity of some > > > > kind. > > > > > > > > The CIA itself was pretty nutty and paranoid > > > > at the height of the Cold War. > > > > > > > > But that the CIA was intent on *persecuting* > > > > MMY and the TMO is a ludicrous idea. > > > > > > I agree with Judy, here. Probably the initial > > interest > > > from the CIA was two fold: a very large and > > popular > > > international organization and the possibility of > > some > > > supernatural abilities that could be exploited. I > > > think the CIA quickly discovered that the TMO was > > the > > > "gang that couldn't shoot straight" and that the > > > siddhis did not bring about anything that could be > > > utilized. > > > > Yup. Or it may have been a complete fantasy > > on MMY's part from the get-go. > > I think there must have been something to hang his > delusional hat on. I hope it wasn't pure paranoid > fantasy!
You know, back in the early '70s, all us leftist young folks were constantly suspecting the CIA of tapping our phones, opening our mail, keeping files on us, sabotaging or infiltrating meetings and demonstrations, and so on and so on. As far as we were concerned, the CIA was an evil monster capable of anything and everything. Nobody was too unimportant for the CIA to keep in its sights. Of course the vast majority of the time (not *all* the time, however), we were just imagining things, but that was the prevailing ethos: the CIA was out to get us by any means possible. So I'd guess MMY didn't come up with the CIA notion all by himself. It's quite possible someone among his cadre suggested to him that some anomaly--innocent or otherwise-- was the result of CIA activity and delivered a rap about what a menace the CIA had become. Given his apparent general naivete about politics and international affairs, he would most likely not have questioned this account and would have adopted the paranoia whole hog. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
