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Posted by Survivor: "The regions of SRF Hell "

Posted 1/25/02 by Survivor: "The regions of SRF Hell "
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The regions of SRF Hell are not limited to "Mother Center".

The SRF Publications Center has been extremely mismanaged for many, many years, with incredible politics and backstabbing as everyday affairs. As one long-time SRF member and PC employee once said, "Every person here has tire tracks embedded in his back." Not to mention the knives. I speak from personal experience.

Few people are aware that SRF almost closed the Publications Center in 1996. It was saved, temporarily at least, by a conjunction of circumstances. Two long-time SRF members with experience in printing and publishing were brought in in a final, if ineptly belated (to be expected from the bad ladies) attempt to salvage what they could. After speaking to all the workers at the PC, monks and employees, these consultants determined that the PC management team was the problem. They were right. In response to this assessment, DM reassigned all four of the PC management team monks. (Do you think she even bothered to talk to them first? Come on! She isn't that kind.) But before this could be put into effect, one of these four monks left the ashram. DM put the other three back in power and added the two consultants to the management team. It turns out she was just jerking everyone's chain with the reassignment -- it was all just for show.

The new management team, including employees now, was able to make some progress in the first six months or so, but then they fell victim to the classic SRF syndrome: before, on the outside, these former consultants were respected and listened to; now, on the inside, they were just more dirt to be spit on. Especially once they started to tangle with Queen Jackie I, hidden ruler of SRF from her throne in Accounting Dept. To make a long, long story short, the same old, killing power structures remain firmly in place to this day: DM, MM, Sharana, Jackie, Priya, Chidananda, Paramananda. The employee managers eventually all quit once they realized that they were simply being ignored and were basically worthless in that environment.

Meanwhile, one of the things that had happened was an insane, misguided, massive build up of personnel at the PC. The rationalization was that SRF would begin producing 4-5 new items per year. This is absurd. There isn't that much unpublished material. And while they were on this wild goose chase, where are the Lessons in Portuguese and Italian? WHERE IN GOD'S NAME IS THE NEW EDITION OF THE LESSONS?! IN ENGLISH?! Where are the publications that are really going to help people? The Lessons in their current form are OK, and in the beginning, when we don’t know anything, they seem fantastic, but they do not present Master's teachings effectively. This was Master's opinion, and even the bad ladies admit this. In any case, now, after hiring many, many more people than they need to at the PC, they will cause many of them financial hardship in a 30% RIF! And, to understand what makes this so diabolical, their standard operating procedure does not involve talking to anyone down there! The ax will fall based on the opinions of outside consultants. This is how the bad ladies do things. I have been there and experienced it myself. They have not changed.

An aside on the techniques: the techniques especially are extremely poorly presented in the Lessons, as those monks and nuns answering letters and taking counseling calls can attest to. The same questions and issues come up over, and over, and over again, ad infinitum. But what are the bad ladies doing about it? Pretending to look for more efficient ways to answer the same questions again and again, instead of addressing the real issue and teaching the techniques more effectively in the first place.

So, what does all of this mean? Try to realize who and what you are dealing with in the SRF organization, and if you are currently working at the Publications Center, get your resume together and start looking for a better, happier job. Life does not have to be lived their way to be spiritual. In fact, it can’t be.

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