And then Forum 8 helped me to understand in greater depth. That was a year and a half ago and it's been amazing and really helpful to read here. When I first read EPO I wanted to go into denial - just as many premies do. My natural reaction was to try and explain away all the facts and justify M. This is because it's too much to think that the person you believed to be the perfect master, (in my case for 30 years) does in fact behave so badly. It was quite shocking to discover the facts on EPO, but also so enlightening. Information is power - it gives the person the ability to make an informed decision. No wonder EV wanted to shut it down - and thank goodness they'll never be able to do that!
The main reason why I could take it all on board, (because it was difficult), was because EPO comes across as genuine, honest and sincere. With EV you get the complete opposite. Lies, no respect and no answers. Wouldn't it be great if EV or M were to reply to the open letter on the EPO website? Unfortunately M's ego is way too inflated!!
The irony is, though, that when I first got a computer and could go on line, I went to the tprf website, looking for pictures from the 70's and of M in India as a child. I was surprised that there weren't any, so I tried the EV website. Same thing. I even emailed them asking why not, and if they planned to put any up - I think I even suggested that they did! I don't know why, but they didn't bother to reply. At this stage I was too scared to check out EPO as it is M's "agya" (command) to premies not to read EPO. A couple of months, and a programme later, I googled EPO. The rest is history!
Thank you EPO and F8! There must be others like me too - and I agree that it would be interesting to know how many, roughly.
Anna
