--- In [email protected], a_non_moose_ff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" > > <jpgillam@> wrote: > > > > > > I seem to recall, after the whole affair blew over, Bevan > > > said something to the effect that that these people were > > > trying to undermine our accreditation efforts and sabotage > > > the image of the school before the wider world. > > > > > > You have to understand, we were *all about* proselytizing, > > > hence the coats and ties. Anything that distracted from > > > that clean-cut, mainstream image was strictly off the > > > program. So this gay rights plea on the day the school > > > was to be inspected by the outside academic world seemed > > > like an averted catastrophe. (The posters were taken down > > > right away, of course.) > > > > Forget the gay thing...what you have just described > > is the entire history of the TM movement from Day > > One -- pretense and hiding its normality in the > > closet, > > Not from Day One. Maybe from Month Two or so.
:-) Possibly so. It was already true with the IMS and SRM groups in L.A., even before SIMS was ever formed. > And I know a number of people who just did TM and remained > quite counter-culture, counter-pretense. I'm sure there were many. But they didn't work within the TM movement. I'm talking about what it was like in the centers and the TM communities. > > followed by panic, paranoia and persecuation > > when the closet door is thrown open and all-too- > > normal interiors of the closet are revealed. > > > > It doesn't matter whether the pretense was about TM > > having so negative side effects, or about TM marriages > > never failing, or about no one in TM communities ever > > committing suicide or seeing shrinks, or about every- > > body being straight. > > > > Whatever the specifics were, the bottom line was always > > the same -- pretense. Pretending that the actuality of > > the life of a TMer conformed to Maharishi's claims of > > what the life of a TMer should be. And woe be unto him > > who pulls back the curtain on that pretense and reveals > > it for what it is. > > > 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/
