--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer > <fairfieldlife@> wrote: > > > > on 3/14/06 4:05 PM, feste37 at feste37@ 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!!!!! >
They ignored the psychologist's recommendation. Fatal mistake. "Dr. Robert Boyer, a clinical psychologist and member of the University faculty, was contacted. He advised that Shuvender Sem was dangerous, should be kept off campus, and needed to be evaluated by a psychiatrist immediately. University officials decided not to arrange a psychiatric evaluation of Shuvender Sem" JohnY ------------------------ 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/
