--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Any idea who that might have been?
> >
> > I have no idea. Most of the residence courses I did
> > were planned by the residence course office in
> > Cambridge and taught by local teachers. The only
> > exception was in some of the few courses I did in CT,
> > where sometimes teachers from further south would come
> > north. One of my most interesting courses was in
> > Litchfield, CT, always a favorite place for courses, a
> > farm with duck ponds and great food that was owned by
> > meditators or meditator-friendly people. Alan Solof
> > and someone from PA, his name was something like
> > Michael Moore, taught it. This was a 4-day course on a
> > miserably hot and humid 1977 Easter weekend, a very
> > short time before news of the new sidhis courses came
> > out. Our two teachers had just come back from a long
> > course with MMY, sidhis I suppose. Michael kept
> > telling us how the teachers on his course were going
> > into unity all the time, while Alan was so spaced out
> > or else unstressing that he could barely interact with
> > the group. They didn't know how to bring us down in
> > rounds and asked if we should be doing two rounds on
> > the last day or one round and a group meditation. We
> > ended up doing both, which led to a spacey 2 1/2 hour
> > drive back home. This was my last old-style residence
> > course. After that, it was sidhis, then CCP and WPAs.
>
> There was a period, pre-Regional offices, when
> any TM teacher could arrange for a place and
> teach a weekend residence course. Then a decree
> came down from on high that this was uncool, so
> things had to be more "controlled." What that
> meant in real life was that the Regional Offices
> had to find a way to pay all of their people's
> salaries without asking the TMO for money.
>
> I ran the Western Regional Office for a couple
> of years, and it was *amazing* the amount of
> overhead we had to stick onto the price of a
> residence course to do this. A course that
> should have cost $40 per participant per week-
> end ended up costing $100. To our credit, we
> did do what seems not to have been done on the
> East coast and had training courses for teachers
> who wanted to teach residence courses, going
> over the kinds of things they needed to know
> and the things they had to be aware of when
> teaching them. I taught a lot of courses myself
> during that period, and it was a fun but often
> trying experience. To think of someone diving
> into it without being aware of some of the things
> that can come up is a little scary.
FWIW, every residence course/WPA I've been on (all
in the Northeast) has been very well run by teachers
who seemed to know exactly what they were doing
(including dealing with difficulties).
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