The recent, very illuminating discussion on the TPRF donations page between Brian M., 13 and Babaluji highlights for me the serious problem on this Forum. As 13 posted:“but I think it's effectiveness at helping premies who are looking for another side of the story is not helped by the number of postings that just assume the worst to be the truth.”
I don’t think this is a problem for premies either, I think any interested bystander could believe that the “ex-premies” are a particularly obsessive, group of “take no prisoners in debate” kind of people on the evidence of many of the posts on this site. While this could be taken as evidence of the uselessness of practicing the techniques of Knowledge most people will probably take the easy route of assuming ex-premies are unreasonable zealots or shock, horror: Level 666 apostates, Series: 1971, Group: Meditation Overload, Variety: DLM/EV.
I’m certainly not calling for censorship but am making a plea for more tolerance of divergent viewpoints. You can believe that the claims made about Knowledge and Prem Rawat by the “teacher” and his students are false while maintaining a range of views on individual aspects of this state of affairs.
