--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think your friend's observation is interesting and quite accurate > in many ways but I somewhat disagree with his assessment that the TM > teachers don't care anymore. > > I think they DO care. I think they care very much and have never > stopped caring. > > I care. But like many I am disillusioned. I'll give two reasons. > The first is one that applies, I believe, almost universally, to > those teachers that "care" but no longer will run off to, say, an > Invincibility Course when MMY calls for it. The second reason will > be more personal and one that applies more specifically to me > although there is, I believe, a significant demographic of this > mindset as well: > > 1) THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF factor. It's hard to get excited about > becoming a recert or coming to the Invincibility Course when every > few months for virtually the past 30 years MMY comes out with THE > NEXT GREAT THING (as I think Barry once called it). Yawn. I mean, > why should I disrupt my life once again -- as I've done several > times in my life -- because of an urgent call from MMY when I know > that once HE loses interest in it that his attention will get > diverted in a few months to something else? And we all know that > this WILL happen. > > 2) Betrayal. I strongly feel that MMY has betrayed some very sacred > tenets of the Movement. I won't bore you all by going into them > because I've done so countless times on this forum. But I am not > predisposed to go off to some course once again when he has said and > done things that go against the very core of the principles upon > which I joined the TMO in the first place. > > I would LOVE to be on the Invincibility Course...it would be sheer > bliss...but I just can't knowing that I would possibly get very > upset once I got there and had to be exposed to TMO bullshit. I'd > feel trapped. So I know my limitations and stay away. > Very well put, Shemp, especially the bit about 30+ years of the next big, I mean it this time, this is the real deal COURSE. I still enjoy standard issue TM but my days of running off to the latest, greatest course are looooooong gone.
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