Hello all, I'm new here. I do remember Rick and Carol Archer from MIU. Great folks.
Here's my TM resume. Maybe some of us know each other. I started TM 1972 in Cleveland Went to MIU in Santa Barbara 1973 Teacher training in Vittel, France early 1974Drove one of the moving vans from Santa Barbara to Fairfield in the summer of 1974."Governor" Training, 1976 in a Arosa Switzerland. Sidhis in Livingston Manor 1979I still meditate and enjoy it as an experience but Re: the theory/religion/cosmic everything jazz, I have to leave that behind to maintain my real-world sanity. I check into this group every few months and read a few e-mails and sometimes feel like yelling out loud, "get out, break your chains, live your own life." In my first years in the Movement I was moderately fanatical as I guess most of us may have been and I had to distance myself because it is just like any other movement that claims to have the answer to everything: it creates its own craziness. Religions, multilevel marketing organizations, any kind of fanatical belief breeds craziness and organizational dysfunction; it goes with the territory. Here I am about to preach to you all now. Darned if I can't listen to my own advice! I don't check in here much but it seems that people who have been in the movement for ages and ages are continually analyzing, reviewing and thinking about this meditation movement. It seems that this intense ongoing scrutiny is in itself cultlike because it occupies your time, heart, and emotions. Leave it and go on with your important lives. You've got better things to do. Gary Bond ---- Original Message ---- From: Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2007 12:33:05 AM Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: recent photos of rishikesh From: FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:FairfieldLi [EMAIL PROTECTED] com] On Behalf Of lurkernomore2000200 0 Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 11:25 PM To: FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: recent photos of rishikesh --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, "george_deforest" <george.deforest@ ...> wrote: > If you go to this link, you can see a whole bunch of photos taken just about 2 weeks ago of a group of TM students visiting Maharishi's ashram in Rishikesh. I had no idea it was abandoned and had become such a ruin! Priceless. Somebody better tell Girish to release some funds. Nabluss, would this be appropiate, or maybe it's better to keep the place in this state of disrepair to encourage people to keep their eye's closed. That must be it. I’m not sure the TM movement owns it anymore. I seem to recall that they let it go rather than pay some taxes. 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