> > > You forgot to mention abusing your authority as a > > > spiritual teacher to seduce women.:-) > > > > Dr Pete: "Hey, life has really big learning curve, doesn't it? > > A friend of mine used to make passes at women when he > > was checking their meditation. He'd lean over and kiss > > them. I was flabbergasted at this and asked him why he > > did it and what did they do. He said he did it because > > he like to kiss pretty girls and most of them kissed > > back. He had sex with a few of them. Really weird > > stuff. He now works as a chiropractor. Probably > > adjusts people in the nude!" > > Now you freak'n tell me this! Where was this checking point > when I was checking hottie after hottie in the DC center. I was > soooooo pure that when chicks came on to me I was "professional". > Oh the idealism of youth! I do remember that certain hot chicks > used to get very long "checkings" from another teacher. I thought > they were just gabbing (something my purity would never allow). > Now I realize that it was much more likely that there was a little > "slowly open the thighs" action going on. > > "Most of them kissed him back", what a world I missed in my sattvic > lifestyle! I'm so glad rajas and tamas rule the day now. I'm not > missing out on anything these days!
It's really great to see you guys having fun with Jim's rather...uh...jealous snitlet at the top. I think it's good to consider that (if I remember correctly) Jim's never been a TM teacher. His ideas of what TM teachers are like -- or what the life of a TM teacher is like, period -- are just that...ideas. The reality was sorta like...uh...everyday reality. For example, back when I was a full-time TM teacher, it *was* the TM movement, with all its surface prudery, but it was also the late 70's, and L.A. People were coming on to each other right and left because that's what people *did* in the late 70s in L.A. In the TM movement, outside the TM movement; it didn't matter. It was the tenor of the times -- post-pill and pre-AIDS. I hate to break it to you straight types, but the Friday night lectures at Charley Lutes' in Santa Monica were regarded as The Best Pickup Spot In Town. Even non-TMers knew about it. And let me tell you, during that time of the TM movement, there was no "seduction" involved in hooking up with a female TM teacher. So many of the male TM teachers were into investigating their inner celibacy that being a guy who wasn't was like being a straight guy in San Francisco. We straight and willing guys were in such short sup- ply at that time in L.A. TM circles that if there was any seduction goin' down, it was usually on the part of the women. There was also a great deal of foolin' around on ATR courses. One course I was on in Northern California had so many people sneakin' from cabin to cabin in the middle of the night that I thought I'd stepped into an episode of The Young And The Restless. If you missed seeing this stuff in your journey through the TM movement, it's not that it wasn't going on, it's just that you missed it.
