--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 3/14/06 4:05 PM, feste37 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > For God's sake, she was just doing her best as she saw it, > > Of course she was. Everyone does. > > >not using a > > "tactic" > > to "alienate people from what they're experiencing." > > That wasn't her intention, but that's often the net effect of the TMO > approach to dealing with negativity.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Someone was just stabbed and Dillbeck's response is to go on with the lecture? Talk about sweeping a problem under the rug! > > >You always take the most > > negative interpretation possible, while posing as an impartial, detached > > observer. > > What I'm suggesting is that many of the ways we've been taught in the TMO to > deal with various situations are actually quite unhealthy and lead to very > unnatural, out-of-touch, and in this case, fatal ways of thinking, feeling, > and behaving. > Yes, fatal. Sadly, the Butler affair was the culmination of and fruits of a pathology that had become the norm in TMO culture: manipulate the environment in order to further the goals of the Movement. In this case, it was: ignore an actual crime because to not do so would be to suggest that crime can actually occur in a TM environment. To not do so would mean reporting the crime and unfavorably skewering crime statistics that would disprove the "Maharishi Effect". Not at all the fault of the actual TM Technique but, yes, a fault of those TMO institutions and those that run them -- from MMY on down -- for perpetuating those pathologies. In addition to representing a valid complaint of the Levi Butler Estate, I found the brief to be, on the whole, a fair and timely and MUCH NEEDED critique of the TMO culture. It should be widely dissseminated and read by everyone in the Movement!!!!! ------------------------ 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/
