The issue is NOT who your chosen expert is. It's that your knee-jerk reaction
is to trot one out, and shoot the messenger the way you were taught to.
And the even bigger issue is that you're so brainwashed you don't know you're
doing it.
From: lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
even after I had left the Movement, quit TM for years and knew that Marshy was
a liar and financial manipulator, I still believed Marshy was life long
celibate. Rick cured me of that. It is one of the last illusions to be
vaporized by former TM junkies.
From: lengli...@cox.net
if you say so, it must be true.
L
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote :
The issue is NOT who your chosen expert is. It's that your knee-jerk
reaction is to trot one out, and shoot the messenger the way you were taught
to.
And the even bigger issue is that
This doesn't explain why you went over to work for Rama, to recruit students
for him, when everyone knows that Rama used to screw around with his female
students all the time. You probably lied about this for years too. Go figure.
Even now you can't admit the truth. I tried to take up for you
It's not surprising that you are so screwed up in the head after going through
what you've been through, even though it's been what, 34 years now? Sometimes
it takes decades to get out of the trance-induction state and sort out the
cognitive dissonance.
Some recovering cult members have
So -- yet again -- the reaction an admitted True Believer has to someone
describing something about Maharishi that he doesn't like is She's LYING.
Lawson couches it in weasel language (My chosen expert says it couldn't have
been true so it couldn't have been true), but the message is still
