--- In [email protected], Gary Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > Thanks for the awesome advice gary! Don't know what we would do without you...
