wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], Rick Archer
> <fairfieldlife@> wrote:
> > on 5/20/06 12:42 PM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> > >
> > > Let's hear it -- how many wonderful and charming tourist
> > > locations in the world did the folks here go to for a TM
> > > course or project, and wind up with only photographs of
> > > the inside of a hotel room as souvenirs? :-)
> >
> > My father used to chide me on that point: "You go to some
> > of the most beautiful places in the world, and then sit
> > around with your eyes closed all day."
>
> Tell me about it.
>
> Shemp and I spent six months in St. Moritz, one of
> the truly elegant Winter tourist destinations. True,
> we were there in the Summer, when it was picturesque
> but not nearly so hip as it is in the Winter, but I
> would bet that the majority of the course participants
> never made it into town.
>
> I did. It may have been one of the things that sowed
> the first seeds of my disaffection with the TMO. I would
> *have* to get up in the morning and go bounce on my butt
> with a bunch of men who were no more awake than I was
> (or else our "buddy" was under orders to report us to
> the course leaders). Then we'd do the siddhi program
> and the guys would take turns reading the Vedas. I'm
> sorry, but that just didn't float my boat. Especially
> when I noticed that this program was *the* program,
> and that we weren't going to deviate from it one iota
> for the next five months.
>
> So I started going in to town during our "walk and talks,"
> and noticing a few things. Like that the townspeople of
> St. Moritz were smiling more than the guys I was bouncing
> around on the foam with. Like that part of me wanted to
> be around those smiles more than it wanted to be around
> people whose greatest joy in life seemed to be picking
> some hapless guy and branding him as "off the program,"
> and his lack of one-pointedness the only reason why
> Maharishi had not deigned to visit us. (Shemp knows who
> I'm talking about.)
>
> Several nights a week, I'd do my TM-siddhis program faith-
> fully, and then out of sheer *need* for something *human*,
> ferchrissakes, go into town and sit at a cafe and listen
> to music and be around people who were enjoying *life*,
> not some idea of it. I wasn't alone there in those cafes;
> several other people from the course obviously had the
> same need.
>
> I don't regret an instant of my off-the-program-ness. I
> wish instead that I'd done more of it...
>
Funny, if you read my recent post about my experience in India,
you'll see that I spent only 2 days out of one month on the course
and the other 29 days hiking in the Himalayas, playing golf and
eating masala dosa on the street.
But on the St. Moritz course I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.
That 6 months was without doubt the most important experience of my
life...from both an experiential and spiritual level.
Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that I had been
celibate for about 1 1/2 years prior to the start of the course and
continued this practise for the entire 6 months. Well, something
certainly contributed to my wonderful experiences.
And those wonderful experiences centered around the flying
technique. I don't remember which group you were in, Barry, but we
had two groups: the clear transcenders who got the flying technique
about 4 weeks before the second group, the group I was in. And then
we had it for about the last 7 weeks of the course.
I had never before -- or since -- experienced -- consistently and
completely -- such utter exhilaration and purification. And it was
like clockwork: do the sutra and the results were there. Which is
saying something because I am by nature a doubter and skeptic.
Sadly, after I got back to MIU and flew there, the experiences were
utterly horrible. People talked and carried on during the
flying...something we had never done in St. Moritz. with only a few
exceptions I never got back the same experiences I had there.
And I felt a little bitter about it because it seemed to me that
people I flew with after the course didn't have the same
instructions as I did: these other people talked during program. I
mean they had actual conversations. I was like a knife in my stomach.
Well, I was told it was just unstressing. Now I could buy that if
the others had the same instructions as me but I'll be damned if I
will when people do something other than what I was taught.
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