--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, a_non_moose_ff <no_reply@> > wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "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.
SIMS is eternal, part of the Ved.:) I was thinking Squaw Valley 68, which you said you were there. It was not exactly a conformist camp. And pre 1970 the Berkeley Center -- while generally dignified, had some deifinte color. No one was turned away for lackof funds: "you can't afford the $35, ok what can you pay?"/. And things like, I remember one morning, Nat Goldhaber wandered down to the front desk, as a day of initiations was begining (he lived there) in his underwear, with cowboy boots on, yelling about this or that. Even first year mallorca was a bit loose. No ties, could grow breards. etc. I was shocked when I went to Fuiggi for rounding. Ties required, much more straight-laced. > > 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/
