--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > Let's face it: none of you would even be acceptable in > > a cult dome. What, are we, your last resort? > > LOL! > > That's really it, isn't it? There are a number of > people here who REALIZE that they would never be > allowed within a hundred yards of an "official" > TM butt-bouncing dome. And yet they look around > at the others who aren't allowed in and they say > to themselves, "I'm not as bad as THEY are. Maybe > if I make enough noise and insult these other > rejects enough times, they'll let me back in > to the clubhouse." > > Funniest image in a great long while, Vaj. Thanks.
Classic projection. When confronted with one's own doubts about one's spiritual practice, teacher, or tradition, EXTERNALIZE them and project all the anger that one feels towards ones self for feel- ing these doubts onto those who are open about having them, or worse, onto those who LAUGH at the doubts and at those who feel threatened about having them. And the deeper the doubts that the seeker of this type has, the worse they portray the externalized "enemy" to be. Using this measure, those who feel that TM critics are possessed by demons and should burn in Hell really feel that this will be *their* fate if they admit their own doubts. Similarly, those who have turned stalking and demonizing TM critics into pretty much a full-time occupation, sometimes for decades and on five or six Internet forums, must have some pretty terrible fears about what will befall *them* if they admit their similar doubts. NOTE: The above is posted as a Public Service, as something for a certain person who is...uh...a bit given to this kind of projection, and whose morning would feel empty and unfulfilling to her if she awoke and read Fairfield Life (probably without meditating first), and found nothing there that she could react angrily to. Consider it my contribution to her ongoing sense of worth and to the sadhana she has chosen. I live to serve. :-)
