<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], bob_brigante <no_reply@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer
> > <fairfieldlife@> wrote:
> > >
> > > on 5/19/06 11:09 PM, authfriend at jstein@ wrote:
> > >
> > > > --- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine
> <salsunshine@>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Rick, I agree completely. Those poor lost souls using
phony
> > names
> > > >> are just wallowing in fear. :)
> > > >
> > > > I refrain from standing on the table and singing
> > > > obscene songs in my local pizza parlor, because they
> > > > might actually throw me out, and I really enjoy
> > > > their thin-crust veggie pizza.
> > > >
> > > > What a shame that I experience fear because of what
> > > > a grubby, insignificant little pizza joint may do
> > > > to me.
> > >
> >
> >
> > > Yeah, but you don't actually want to do that, unless you've
had
> > too much
> > > beer and are trying to impress Barry on one of his secret
> visits,
> > while
> > > there are people all over Fairfield who are afraid to do
pretty
> > normal
> > > things for fear of getting excommunicated. For instance, I
know
> > one fellow
> > > who loves English Country Dancing. There is a group here which
> > does this. He
> > > stopped going "because there are Amma people there." There are
> > many other
> > > examples, and new ones every day.
> > >
> >
> > ************
> >
> > Obviously, with campus appearances by Donovan, an off the
program
> > TMer who only occasionally does TM and supports a foundation for
> > Tibetan Buddhist meditation, giving concerts on campus and
joining
> > the board of directors of Lynch's foundation, and by Lonnie
> Gamble,
> > whose wife appears topless on his Hawaii farm web site, not to
> > mention Lynch's bizarre movies which did not stop him from being
> on
> > MUM's board of directors, there is a change in MUM attempts to
> > control the populace. If there is some lag time for the average
> > person to realize this, that's understandable, but it's
certainly
> > ridiculous, given the above, that anybody reasonable would worry
> > about attending a dancing group because Amma people are there.
> > Sometimes they are after you, but sometimes people are just
> > unnecesarily paranoid.
> >
>
>
> But, Bob, you forget the TMO's Prime Directive: which is to give
> special privileges to those with money and/or celebrity.
>
> It's ALWAYS been that way...what makes you think it is becoming
any
> different now?
>
Well, it is not true that money and celebrity have been all-
important in the movement, as is obvious from the way Bevan dished
David Kaplan, which resulted in both brothers going ballistic and
tossing Purusha and MD out of their home.
> Do you think for one cottin' pickin' minute that a non-celebrity
non-
> rich David Lynch who would make the kind of soft-core porn that is
> intrinsically part of "Mulholland Drive" would not be immediately
> banned from the TMO? (notwithstanding the fact that they are
> wonderful lesbian scenes).
>
> Do you have any doubt whatsoever?
>
This doesn't make any sense -- obviously a maker of softcore porn
who was not in TM management would not be thrown out of anything.
And the fact that a film maker like Lynch is now in TM management
only proves the point I was making that attitudes in Bevan land are
changing.
> What about Doug Henning's long hair in the '70s and '80s? Do you
> have any delusions why he was able to keep it when virtually
anyone
> else in the Movement would have been ejected?
>
There were always exceptions to the hair rules, especially for
people in the entertainment industry, and in any event, Doug Henning
was not really part of TM administration, not in the same way that
David Lynch is (he's on the board of directors of MUM). One hair
rule being that people over 35(?) who had previously worn beards
were OK to continue doing so, which is why an non-rich MIU atty
(director of grants admin) had a beard in the 70s.
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