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I have yet to hear anything that justifies the #metoo hashtag. You seemed to
be stretching it to suit your own purposes. Show some evidence or you have
shown yourself to be completely toxic and irresponsible.
evidence from my side - the recent memoirs of Susan Shumsky and also Rhoda
Orme Johns
One of the other women now.
Rick Archer recently in a FF grocery mentioned there is another book, a
#MeToo, being published by one of the women Maharishi evidently had. Apparently
a university professor now is reflecting on the consequence of that in her
life. Also apparently is going to visi
The film in fact was a visual inside a community that most only heard
whisperings about.
Srijau contends, it was an ugly devious exploitative misrepresentation. that
you suggest that it was meaningful to more than you confirms the worst about
yourself. Name one person who agrees with you a
it was an ugly devious exploitative misrepresentation. that you suggest that it
was meaningful to more than you confirms the worst about yourself. Name one
person who agrees with you about this film being a watershed moment for anyone
in the movement. I have seen two critical memoirs that came o
David Wants to Fly brought focus to what people inside the community of TM
evidently were feeling as to what was happening, That there was attrition, a
withdrawal in communal numbers even before Maharishi passed away, David Wants
to Fly put faces to the effects of use of power, money and sex in
it wasn't a watershed and you know it
Reconciling the good, the bad and the ugly David Wants to Fly was a watershed
for people around the TM community (2010).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wants_to_Fly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wants_to_Fly
A lot of people had left the meditating community before then and the
c
David wants to Fly is not around so much because people found it so ugly,
mean-spirited, exploitative. Thats just nasty of you to even bring it up.
Studies in broken trust..
In a genre, the David Wants to Fly documentary of the TM community, this would
seem to be also of a kind of study of broken trust in spiritual and religious
community.
David Wants to Fly video used to be more readily available to find and was
shared more widely a
One can see this documentary itself is going to be at the intersection of how
people look at or study spiritual groups in American culture.
Using Rajneeshpuram this film does quite the good job in a documentary format
of touching on a range of separate spiritual groups within American society,
An old FF meditator saying of the Rajaneesh documentary, ‘..disturbingly
familiar’.
Different than with Antelope, Oregon though, the first four years of
meditators coming to Fairfield, Iowa meditators as a group lived physically
mostly within the confines of the academic institution, mostly u
A Study in Polarized Communities, yes.
A large difference in two stories, between Antelope, Oregon and Fairfield,
Iowa is that mostly neither our local Iowans or the incoming TM meditators to
Iowa became overtly violent, or physically aggressive with each other.
But even with ‘that look’ tha
NPRadio interview with the film makers..
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/24/596723300/religion-libertarian-cults-and-the-american-west-in-wild-wild-country
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/24/596723300/religion-libertarian-cults-and-the-american-west-in-wild-wild-country
Docuseries,
a heavily
In the 1980s I was living back in my hometown in SE Washington. Got a
lot of news about Antelope and the commune. One local man whose kids I
grew up with was a produce broker and was enjoying a thriving business
selling produce to the commune. As a shortcut from the town to trips to
Californ
This is pretty good so far. I've watched the first episode and started in on
the second. I have lived in Oregon since 1993 and it's interesting watching
and listening to the "survivors" of the situation from the local perspective.
Our local PBS station did a really good 2 part documentary on
Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBLS_OM6Puk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBLS_OM6Puk
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