Sal, did you ever know Campbell in your past TM days?
From: sparaig
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:35 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Krishna like Christian evangelizing
I asked Anthony Campbell, author of _The Seven Stages of Consciousness_, why he
became a Buddhist and no longer does TM. He replied because he had meditated
the requisite number of years (I assume 7) and TM didn't work as advertised (he
wasn't enlightened) so he moved on.
I expect the same thing is at work here:
MMY said that floating would happen "real soon now" and an awful lot of people
who learned the TM-Sidhis eventually decided "it ain't going to happen" and
moved on to practices that they felt were giving them more profound and
authentic experiences than "hopping like a frog."
I assume that he did things the way he did because he believed that if enough
people learned the TM-Sidhis fast enough, the world's consciousness WOULD
change to support floating, and thus he would have fulfilled his own prophecy
by being excessively enthusiastic about how soon people would be floating (I
still believe that he believed in floating as a real aspect of the Yogic Flying
technique).
Once the disillusionment set in, the people who promised grander things had a
ready-made audience for them since most TM-Sidhas are self-selected for wanting
powers and other "specialness," regardless of what hand-written letters they
signed to the contrary.
And why shouldn't they become disillusioned? They were told they were "special"
in every way, simply by learning the TM-Sidhis practices and there they were,
decades later, and still no floating.
MMY had attempted to con world consciousness itself into growing faster than it
could, and the people he used for that con moved on.
Even within the Extended Maharishi Effect perspective, there's still hope.
THere's plenty of school administrators in Latin America what want a stress
management technique for their students, and while the ultra-cynical former
True Believers may believe that TM doesn't really work at all, there's plenty
of large-scale demonstrations that it does work wonders in very stress-laden
schools, and that is a more viable way of getting huge numbers of people to
learn and practice together, I think.
and... if the kids in Mexico ever start floating, that would be a game-changer
all around.
L
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote:
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> > in Fairfield, It's like there has been a cultural protection or
> predisposition in meditators generally against these other more
> mood-making or faith-based kinds of groups encroaching very far. It's
> like the TM'ers are more scientific and immune from too much iron age
> belief structures. You know, Maharishi did study a degree in physics.
> Modern science and the scientific process was after all part of his
> spiritual revival. Very 21st Century.
> Dear Buck, I admire your enthusiasm, your mission, your seemingly
> inexhaustible zeal. But I don't believe you for one nanosecond.
> Fairfield was a typical midwest town back in the 60's and early 70's: a
> town square, local horse show at the ag grounds, 4H, local teens
> cruising the town square on Friday and Saturday nights round and round.
> Then came MIU and the townspeople, for the most part, accepted this new
> strange breed of student. They weren't like Parson's students with their
> fraternities and homecoming queens but these new immigrants were
> peaceful enough. Now, it is like someone turned on some sort of homing
> radar device that has put out the call to every breed of saint, healer,
> guru, channel known to mankind and they have descended, in droves, to
> Fairfield Iowa. Why would this be? Because "there has been a cultural
> protection or predisposition in meditators generally against these other
> more mood-making or faith-based kinds of groups encroaching very far."?
> What the hell happened since I was there in 1983? All hell has broken
> loose, that's what.
> > -Buck in the Dome
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote:
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> > > Kind of surprising that the Krishna's have not evangelized Fairfield
> before now for as hard as they have worked the airports and
> street-corners once upon a time. The Christians have always been hoping
> to try. The Buddhists however are almost non-existent in Fairfield.
> > > -Buck in the Dome
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> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote:
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> > > > > Wait, won't you git in trouble with the Golden Dome Police if
> you go to a hare krishna deal?
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> > > > > I can understand why the TMO would object to Dome-goers
> attending Hare Krishna stuff, they don't want the TMO's life abnegating
> hindoo dogma to be replaced by the hary krshna's brand of life
> abnegating hindoo dogma.
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