s3raphtiasez:
>
> Re That may be what the logic implies, but it doesn't
> seem to be the case in practice. After all, it would
> be pretty difficult to check the libraries of all
> TMers. And they'd need to monitor TMers' surfing as
> well, since most "heretical literature" is available
> on the Web. Yes, I'm not seriously suggesting the TMO
> would try to censor our reading.
But they DID. Long before there was a 'Web.'
Back in L.A., in the late 1970s, I was a non-voting fly
on the wall at various Inquisitions held at the end of
Sunset Blvd at the "official" L.A. TM headquarters as
hopefuls applied to go on long rounding courses or TM
Teacher Training. I saw several (more than six) people
*denied* entrance to those courses by supposedly On The
Program TM teachers who were "reviewing" them as to their
suitability to become similarly high-ranking TM teachers.
All six were rejected *because of the books these supposed
"teachers" had seen on their bookcases. Books by Carlos
Castaneda, or Yogananda, much less Buddhist teachers. What
made it all so galling, sitting there trying to stay
uninvolved, was that I had been to many of these OTP
teachers' houses, and knew that they had the *same*
books on *their* bookcases.
It was utter and complete hypocrisy, and I beat feet from
the TMO soon afterwards. But DO NOT THINK that the TMO
could never stoop that low. They have, and will again.
