Welcome To The New T.M.

The old T.M. was Transcendental Meditation,
and it was introduced to the wealthy west
by the original giggling guru, The Maharishi.

In the 1960s he ran ashrams, teaching stations,
for distinguished guests. Ringo Starr attended.
Aged 83 he is still touring and talks 'Love and Peace',
but even in 1968 he would not eat the local food
and brought his own supply of tinned baked beans.

The new T.M. is darker and harder to explore,
it is Toxic Masculinity, the modern phrase
which modern man, woman, and other, use
to describe for how they see men as behaving
in the past. There, jealousy and possessiveness
are fuelled by an absolute sense of entitlement
all laid bare, where men put the his into history.

How we see the past, as it given to us
comes from our gendered experiences.
Whatever our gender, offence is offence,
humility is humility, to be forgiven
for past offence is forgiveness; the gift
from the hurt to those who hurt them,
who want be whole in themselves.