Hey SuzyQ,

Interesting that you monolithic-ly describe “Prem’s
meditation as a form of disassociation”. 
I see it differently.  I do think
our narratives frame what we experience, and I agree that it is certainly
possible to use K and any form of meditation to block out unpleasant things, unpleasant
because they are crying for attention and need to be addressed and so forth.  But I have to refer to my own experience with
meditation (both using the K techniques for about 15 years and then the ‘techniques’
I have used for the past 30) which, rather than a blocking out and ‘dissociative’
process, has allowed deeply-held crud and poorly-reasoned ideas the space to
surface into awareness, and me to have the clarity of a somewhat uncluttered
mental state to recognize and even deal with my shit.  I am not saying the meditation is a panacea
and that its misuse won’t bring harm, but that it definitely can have a honored
place in the tool box, next to interactive mechanisms and all that ‘works’ to
assist healing and growth.

I already said that I think teaching meditation
with a philosophy around it would be better in other’s hands, but the concept
that teaching a way to calm down and even gain insight into what drives you (IE
a meditation technique) can be very helpful. 
And I am not trying to defend Prem, which should be pretty clear from
all of my posts on this Forum.

But I am convinced that what we
experience with the K ‘meditation’ techniques were/are affected by how we
approach them, our expectations and framing, and oddly end up being largely what we make it.

I am also unconvinced that my own experience
with GMJ and all did not greatly benefit me and enrich my life.  Of course, who knows how it could have been,
but the way things were going for me, it is not tough to see a likely
story.  And I think somehow I have been
able to forgive myself for my own stupidity for falling in with him and staying
involved as long as I did, which takes off the edge a bit.

M