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| Myth Unregistered User (9/1/01 8:25:12 pm) Reply |
Arrogant Myths - The
Myth of Training
Another powerful myth and control tool of SRF management’s is the manipulation of the concept of “training”. Weird rules, waste, abuse, and downright meanness can be expressed and excused because of this powerful concept. Someone can be mistreated, lied about, even physiologically abused, and the poor victim is “just being trained”. It is a great excuse. Imagine being in a position where you can treat people anyway you want to! The power of that myth does corrupt the user of it, even when the person wielding it tries to meditate. The unfortunate thing about the Myth of Training, and the thing that makes it so powerful, is that it is of course true. When a child is slapped by its father for being restless, that child probably did deserve it if you viewed the grand scale of karma. The child should learn to behave. If a black man is pulled over and beaten by the police for a traffic violation that becomes more difficult to rationalize with the Myth. But again, looking deeply the myth still works. That person’s karma drew them to that moment and in the grand scheme they needed that experience. And the poor SRF accounting department employee who is physiologically abused for simple mistakes of course deserves it too and the Myth of Training applies. But of course that is a trap of logic and doesn’t really work does it. It certainly doesn’t excuse the behavior of the problem people in these stories. But if you can work behind closed doors, keep these behaviors secret, and push the Myth as hard as you can, it can and is used to good effect. There are two problems generated by the Myth of Training. The first problem is the effect on SRF management using the myth in the SRF environment. SRF management is assumed by many (including themselves) to be a direct channel from Master so they are then in a position where the training comes thru them from Master. In addition the Training was required to “help the person” (i.e. they deserve it). This means they have no responsibility for their actions! This gives SRF authorities supreme power and is tremendously corrupting. The ability to act anyway they want and say anything they want turns them into disappointing people. And those positions of power have attracted the wrong kinds of people for the wrong reasons. The second problem is the impact on the poor person being “trained”. As they find themselves “deserving” worse and worse treatment from people assumed to be direct channels (or representatives of the direct channels) their self esteem is hurt more and more and more. Depression and a feeling of helplessness and worthlessness often results, especially after years and years of it. This is one of the main problems this board should address. |
| Concerned Unregistered User (9/3/01 2:30:24 am) Reply |
Abuse...Plain and
simple
This is classic abuse. What can we do to bring accountability to Mother Center? |
| Crog Unregistered User (10/3/01 8:38:04 pm) Reply |
Closed
It is a closed system and we can't do too much. The only choice is to touch their conscience. But those being touched are leaving. Those at the top may be too far gone and have no moral "little voice" left to listen to. |
| Shadowman Unregistered User (10/4/01 12:05:47 am) Reply |
Have they really lost
their moral voice?
Do you really mean that Crog? I've never worked with the head huntas like Daya or Mrin and so on. Have they really lost their marbles? Daya seems like a sweet grandma on tape and at Convos. But I heard she and the other Matas have split personalities. I guess rumors will persist because like the Great Gatsby these women would rather have us believe a fiction than know the truth about them. Somebody!!! Plain and simple...what's the truth about them? |
| PostMonk Unregistered User (10/4/01 1:48:06 am) Reply |
The plain and simple
on the Matas
Shadowman, I spent 16 years under the matas' rule. Here's the skinny. They sincerely believe they are doing God's will. That much is certain. But that's about all the praise I have. They are arrogant, elitist, xenophobic and often downright cruel. They rule by total fear. Abuse, humiliation and exile are meated out to those that dare question or disobey. (Why do you think Bhaktananda has been in Hollywood these past few decades?) Absolutely no one is trusted except for the "chosen few". It doesn't matter how long you've been in, how devoted your are, how intelligent your are. If you're not in their circle you're an expendable pawn to be watched and used to the organization's benefit. If you are in the circle you can act with impunity. Abuse people, spy on them, distort the truth, claw your way to more power --- it's all OK as long as a mataji knows your name. In short, the organization is run by a few of xenophobic women stuck in 1952 and surrounded by a bunch of handpicked, power-hungry wormtongues. That is their way. It is the way of the matas. |
| Shadowman Unregistered User (10/4/01 10:11:02 am) Reply |
Thanks
Thanks Postmonk for the info... Reminds me of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" |
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