Hello to all the folks who have just stumbled upon this Yahoo group and wonder what the hell is going on here from reading the posts or even just the titles. I recall years ago that Maharishi talked about how TM develops "childlike innocence." As many of us know many Indians speak 1.7 languages usually Hindi and .7 English. Therefore perhaps what Maharishi meant to say was that TM develops "childishness" but just didn't know the word for it. :)
Here we have probably the only group on Yahoo that has a posting limit for some reason self-imposed. This evokes some rather bizarre behavior more from the TM TB'ers than the normal folks. Or is the behavior because things are going wacky in the world? I mean after growing up being taught how bad Hitler, fascism, Stalinism and totalitarianism in general is why do we have a bunch screwballs trying to impose it again? So Turq mentions he is seeing bizarre behavior on other groups he participates in though I don't see it quite as much as a lot of the groups I read are focused usually on some technical realm and don't fly off into other areas very often. But I would hate to see such "one pointedness" here. After all this is the much needed little clubhouse for those who have something in common: we all practiced TM at one time or even now. It's tremendous value is the ability to share how we see the world even if that is painful for some tender souls. Perusing topics someone might as what does my recent topic on Janene Garafalo joinng the "24" cast have anything to do with TM? It doesn't but we've discussed "24" here because some folks here are "24" fans and will find it quirky that the very outspoken liberal former Air America Radio co-host and SNL alumni is joining a show produced by a bunch of righties. I guess that might get me to tune in once again even though the series has become so ridiculous that it plays like a 1930's Saturday matinée serial. I've even considered that they might start letting the cast improvise rather than follow a badly written script in need of a couple more re-writes. That might be a vast improvement. But I digress. So sit back and enjoy the "group social patterns" evoked here as some member express their inner and apparently outer child. :)
