--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Lsoma@ wrote: > > > > As of today 12/20/06 I have been turned down to participate > > in America Invincibility course. I have been a regular > > practitioner of TM and TM-Sidhi's for 28 years. They told > > me because I practice astrology that I would not be allowed > > in the dome. I think Maharishi needs to perform the greatest > > miracle of all. Respect for his citizen Sidha's. > > Or for his teachers. You now understand the thing > that many here on this forum understand, and that > a couple of the most vocal TM- and MMY-apologists > on this same forum do not. They don't understand > because they never put their lives on the line to > teach TM. They don't understand because they never > had to scrimp and save to continue their teaching > activities. They never taught, period. > > So when people who did -- for years or even decades -- > express their disappointment at the *lack* of respect > that Maharishi has for them, these apologists ridicule > the people who are expressing such sentiments. They > clearly consider such people weak or lacking in faith. > > But the bottom line is that many of the people who > *did* put their lives on the line for Maharishi, and > who *did* scrimp and saved to continue doing so, > *have* been treated like shit by him and his minions. > And people who *never* made such sacrifices are the > first to trot out excuses for Maharishi and excuses > for his minions. *Their* faith is intact because they > never had to put it to the test. Thus they continue > to talk the talk of living a spiritual life, without > ever once having walked the walk of it.
You know, I was at a Unity Church dinner gathering tonight. Six of the 13 people attending are TMers. Four others in that group want to start TM. (The Unity minister is also a long time meditator.) They have been asking me to speak to the congregation, and I can't. Isn't that the height of irony. JohnY
