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canadafollower posted an update in the group The Humaniversity: 12 years, 6 months ago
I have found all your discussions about Aum Meditation very interesting. Here are my observations when I did this 2 1/2 hour event when it first came out in 1988:
I thought it that it was fun and exhilarating. It certainly moved a lot of energy and it was a good way to connect with people.
However there were also flaws:
1)during the ”I hate you” part, I think that it is wrong to deliberately put people close together and have people cathart on each other. Also there were people who had issues with me personally and they would exploit this stage of the event to really cathart on me instead of discussing their issues about me outside this event. This was dishonest. When this happened, I went into shellshock during this stage because literally the person was all over me screaming and shouting.
2) For the ”porno dancing” stage, a friend of mine who was also doing this group was disgusted when the event leader explained this stage and said something to the effect that Osho was about sex. Not only did he not do any more Aums but he left the sannyasin community because of this. How many intelligent sannyasins also left the sannyas scene because of stupidity like this? Also this stage was like a ”cruising bar”. All the sexually attractive people got all the attention well the not so endowed people were stuck alone during this stage. I believe that groups should include everyone for participation.
3) There was no follow up gathering afterwards where participants and the leader sit in a circle to see what came up for everyone during this 2 1/2 hour event. If such an event moved a lot of energy then it is interesting to know what were people’s observations afterwards. We went to a restaurant afterwards and had a nice social gathering but that does not cut it. Intimacy and honesty are needed here and not superficiality.
That is all I can think of for now.
PS I made changes to my account so some replies may have deleted. I give my apologies
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