--- In [email protected], ffia1120 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a friend from out of town who is in the domes 7-8 > hours a day. She told me last night that in the Monday morning > meeting, people were being asked to call their friends to try > to get them to come to the course. My friend said that MMY or > Bevan (can't remember which) said it would be a test of their > (course particpants) Brahmin consciousness if they could get > people to come to the dome. > > I asked her what did it say about MMY's level of Brahmin > consciousness since he obviously has not been able to convince > people to come to the course? Personally, I do not believe that > trying to convince someone to come to the course should be a > test of one's level of consciousness. > > What was funny about this conversation was that in the middle > of it my phone rang and a woman from the golden dome office > tried to convince me to come to the dome. I was nice, polite > and respectful, but told her I was not interested. > > BTW: In my one block FF neighborhood, on my side of the street > alone, there are 8 sidhas. Zero go to the dome. On the opposite > side of the street there are 7 sidhas, 2 of whom go to the dome. > The numbers they want are easily here in FF, but the faithful > are not.
Thanks for the update. That's kinda what I suspected from afar. For those of us who are old enough to remember better days in the TM movement, what a sad commentary on the nature of karma (otherwise known as "What ye sow ye shall reap"), eh? I mean, if you remember back to the events of this past year alone, the sidhas these people are calling desperately on the phone have been told that unless they quit their jobs and go through a completely unnecessary "recertification" process they are no longer TM teachers. Then many of the ones who fell for that and *got* "recertified" found that the promised paychecks didn't arrive. Other teachers who didn't go for the recert thang and tried to teach anyway were sued in court by the TM movement. *That* is the level of respect that Maharishi has demonstrated that he has for those who have worked their butts off for him all these years. And now he expects to just put out another "emergency call" and have these people *forget* the way that they have been treated, drop everything, and come running to Fairfield, just because he wants them to. Clearly someone in the TM movement believes in the saying coined by Eric Hoffer in The True Believer, "Those who bite the hand that feeds them lick the boot that kicks them." This entire strategy (if one could call it that) seems to be based on the idea that if you mistreat people often enough they'll be willing to be mistreated in the future. 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/
