TurquoiseB wrote:
>>>> 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.
I would have never done anything like that during checking and I doubt
that you would have either not because of "purity" but it would have
seemed unethical. Besides there were plenty TM social activities like
potlucks to supplant that. And I do recall women running around in see
through blouses at a Canadian weekend course I went on. The TTC I was
on which was the last mixed course had a lot of bed hopping too and that
was before the flying technique. :)
