--- In [email protected], "geezerfreak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], new.morning <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > Somewhat parallel to Sprarig's point, if even if a person went outside
> > the norm, even outside the law for 5 years over a 90 year life, 70
> > year career, most would see it as a minor abberation, a minor blip in
> > the longer trend. I tend to, i think most tend to, look at the longer
> > run an give people some slack for "short" periods of messing up. 
> > 
> > Some people mess up, redeem themselves, some by going to jail, return
> > to society and lead productive, contributive lives to society.
> > 
> > Whether having sex with consenting adults is actually "messing up" is
> > another issue. Power issues and teacher status are troublesome. Still
> > it was not a lifelong practice from what i know. Maybe 5-6 years, in
> > 1967-73 time range. 
> > 
> > If this activity was a 40 year pattern, then it would be more
> noteworthy.
> > 
> > Lets assume the accounts are all true -- over a five year span. Does
> > that diminish everything else he has done? 
> > 
> > Of course, he has done other things, over the past 30 years, which to
> > me are "sadder" in terms of not fulfilling or dampening progress
> > towards the early 70's SIMS and World Plan vision. 
> > 
> I relate to what you are saying New Morn. But I do think this went on
> for a longer period of time than 5-6 years. 

It could have been from early 60's. And gone one through 70's + . I
have ehard some acconts of such. But the bulk of the primary "stories"
are from late 60s, early 70s. Thus my "speculative 5-6 years.

> another long time personal secretary of MMY's, in the early 60's in
> London, Joyce-Collins Smith, recalled that MMY started inviting young
> women into his room, one at a time, and locking the door. At the time
> she just noted it as a change from his previous "open door" policy.
> But later, she began to understand what it could mean.

And in the TM-Free blog, I re-read an account of early British
initiator giving MMY massages, and his asking for more. Apparently
from early/mid 60s. 

 
> This is WAY before my time and I don't know Ms. Smith personally. I
> look at MMY's sexual activities with certain female disciples during
> that time as quite wrong, but also just a small piece of a larger
> broken picture. Like you, there are other aspects of the TMO in the
> last 30 years that cause me equal amounts, if not greater, sadness.

Yes. "Sadness" in terms of our expectations. When expectations are
dropped, things are as they are. 

> When I see photos of  the Raja's parading around in Vlodrop, so full
> of themselves, I am absolutely as perplexed and saddened about what
> has become of the TMO as anything that MMY did sexually with a female.
>


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