I've been asked by a work colleague to look into the connections between the SES and the School of Meditation in London. She's trying to track down a missing person, a friend of her family, who was in the SES and then the SOM.
Does anyone know what kind of a link there is between the two organisations?
Tom
School of Meditation
As far as I understand, though I accept I am no authority, the SES uses the school of meditation for initiating SES students. There may be a more historic link and convergence in origin but I don't know what it is.
I do know of a number of people who have left the SES and joined SOM to continue to have support for meditation.
Bonsai
I do know of a number of people who have left the SES and joined SOM to continue to have support for meditation.
Bonsai
SOM
Yes, Tom is right. The SOM is not only a fallback mechanism for individuals but also for groups.
At the first schism inside Dutch SES, in the early nineties, the 'Stichting Filosofie en Meditatie' (SFM) was formed. Including at least 10 ex-tutors, some quite senior, of SES. They continued the link with London through SOM and Mr. White (the main person giving SES initiations in Amsterdam for many years), and 2-3 times a year he came to Amsterdam both for SES and SOM initiations. So apparently SOM partly uses people 'on the payroll' of SES.
Later SFM slowly grew more independent, and also forged links with other new-age teachers - amongst them another Indian. But TM meditation is still one of the techniques they teach, and apparently now they have found another initiation lineage (maybe their own Indian, maybe an authorised Dutch person) than SOM to continue the initiations.
At the first schism inside Dutch SES, in the early nineties, the 'Stichting Filosofie en Meditatie' (SFM) was formed. Including at least 10 ex-tutors, some quite senior, of SES. They continued the link with London through SOM and Mr. White (the main person giving SES initiations in Amsterdam for many years), and 2-3 times a year he came to Amsterdam both for SES and SOM initiations. So apparently SOM partly uses people 'on the payroll' of SES.
Later SFM slowly grew more independent, and also forged links with other new-age teachers - amongst them another Indian. But TM meditation is still one of the techniques they teach, and apparently now they have found another initiation lineage (maybe their own Indian, maybe an authorised Dutch person) than SOM to continue the initiations.
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