On Sep 7, 2006, at 10:12 AM, authfriend wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> On Sep 7, 2006, at 9:17 AM, authfriend wrote: >> >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@> >>> wrote: >>> <snip> >>>> I first noticed something odd when even counseling was given >>>> a bum rap, and they started to ask questions about if you'd ever >>>> had any. Seemed very personal and none of their business. >>> >>> On the other hand, the TMO has been criticized >>> for not being more careful in its screening >>> procedures. Seems to me requiring one's therapist's >>> written permission to learn TM was a sensible >>> precaution, a step in the right direction, at least. >> >> I never heard about the "requiring one's therapist's >> permission" thing, but in any case that wasn't the point >> and that wasn't what they did. > > It was why they asked people who wanted to learn TM > whether they were currently in therapy. (As I recall, > the TM-Sidhis application wanted to know whether you > had *ever* been in therapy. I had been, years > previously, pre-TM, and said so, but it didn't keep me > off the course.)
But it did keep off at least two people I know of. I don't know the frequency of their therapy, or how current it was, (which isn't even the point, of course) but the idea of counseling was being used as a cudgel even then. Sal ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/zAINmC/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
