Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

[Vaj]

On Jun 18, 2006, at 5:18 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] So much of what you said seems to be a natural pattern of growing up with our ideas whatever they are.  I suspect that I am neither uniquely flawed nor gifted in intellectual awareness,  in or out of  TMO.  I also recognize that this group is far from TMO is so many important ways.  Ways that make this group a much nicer and more interesting group to interact with.  I have not been able to have a mutually respectful conversation with anyone still in the group mindset.  I suspect some of the people here have similar experiences although mine may be a little more intense because I publicly spoke out against the TMO, breaking the most important "no talk" rule of any dysfunctional family! Well, you also made it sound as though anyone and everyone in the TMO was a liar as  Andrew Skolnick quoted you in his JAMA article: http://www.skeptictank.org/gs/sci603.htm [...] 'Ex-members say that the movement widely practices a style of deception some call the "SIMS shuffle." Curtis Mailloux, a former member who lives in Fairfax, Va, says the name is derived from the Student International Meditation Society, one of the Maharishi's front groups, where many members develop this skill. Mailloux says he "left the cult" in 1989 after 15 years. As a former TM teacher and chair of the TM center in Washington, DC, the largest in the United States, he is one of the highest ranking members to defect. "I was taught to lie and to get around the pretty rules of the 'unenlightened' in order to get favorable reports into the media," says Maillous. "We were taught how to exploit the reporters' gullibility and fascination with the exotic, especially what comes from the East. We thought we weren't doing anything wrong, because we were told it was often necessary to deceive the unenlightened to advance our guru's plan to save the world."' No, that's not what this reveals, what is seems to reveal is a pattern of corruption and deception at the higher levels, not the rank and file. It also implies this mandate came from *somewhere or someone*--someone pulling the financial and PR strings. Given the history of extreme micromanagement, who do ya think that might be?  It's sad to me that someone who is so spiritual would be turned away because of these experiences. __._,_.___ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Religion and spirituality Buddha shakyamuni Maharishi mahesh yogi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___