--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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.
>
Too bad you missed the siddhis course. It is all about sutras, which
use minimal expressions to accomplish big results, like my 14 words
bringing about a response of 330 words (yow!) from you.:-)
