<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> blissbunn1 writes snipped:
> Whoever asked about how many meditators, siddha's, teachers yadda
> yadda had abusive childhoods is on to a very illuminating thesis. Do
> you think a study like that could be included in the collected
> research on TM?
>
> Tom T:
> From my 12 year experience in Alanon 12 step it would appear to me
> that virtualy all of us were attracted to the movement because of our
> abusive backgrounds. Not only were most of us that way but it would
> appear from my 7 year residency here that the unhealthiest of us ended
> up moving to FF to get to the bottom of our issues. It would never fly
> as research on campus but you don't have to talk to very many people
> to realize that we all came with a heavy load of karma. My own
> research in helping those around me says that everyone you scratch has
> a load of that stuff and most of it has been papered over as in we can
> transcent our way through it. My experience is the only way through it
> is out through the bottom. One has to hit bottom to move on. Basic
> story for all addicts, hit bottom to get beyond it. We were addicted
> to the idea that we could transcend our way over it or around it. Not
> so. Bottom or nothing. That is my personal opinion. Tom
> PS the statistics given in the book When Society Becomes an Addict by
> Ann Marie Wilson Schief says that 98% of us have serious abuse issues.
>
So, by the 98% statistic, the TMO is loaded with perfectly average people.
IOW, its a meaningless statistic in this context.
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