No Touch Monkey!

Regarding your Into the Circle entry in your No Touch Monkey! blog.

I am active in MKP and run a blog at http://nwtamkp.blogspot.com/ providing info about MKP and NWTA.

I offer to you that MKP is most certainly not a cult. A cult demands that you conform to its wishes and ways. MKP is quite simply the opposite of that. MKP demands nothing of a man and encourages him to step into whatever he needs to complete his journey.

Whether the training is expensive or not is up to you. After the training I have never met a man who ever mentioned the cost again. The value is very high.

Secretive? Well, yes and no; quite simply it is more sacred than secret. If I tell you anything about the training I pollute your experince and I would never want that for any man. So we keep the training srecet to use your words.

I am happy to answer any questions you may have and please stop by my blog.

Good day...

Randall

Dear Randall,
Thank you for your response to my entry at NTM, I often believe that no one reads the material that I post.

I understand your protection of the MKP and NWT programs, and I believe that they can in fact be life altering experiences for the better. I know several people in St. Louis who have taken the lessons and used them to benefit others, specifically in working with juvenile delinquents. I think the world of these people and respect the hell out of them for how they use their
knowledge.

As for the cult status of MKP and NWT. I admit that it is not a cult, but does contain the characteristics of the Large Scale Awareness Training, irregardless of their benefit, and that, I have to say, is not for me.

The point of my post is that I went in to my open meeting hoping to find something beneficial, felt pretty good, and in the act of posting that feeling of acceptance realized something odd about the experience and did some research.

The purpose of any meme (the idea virus) is to infect a host, turn it into a meme factory and spread itself. The success of the meme is the length of it's survival. Wheter the meme is positive or negative in nature is a moot point, only it's fitness and lifespan in the outside world.

In this case, the NWT meme is not something I choose to associate myself with even though I respect those who do. I have no desire to take an indian name, find a spirit animal, or undergo a spiritual rebirth and/or transformation in a sweat lodge with drumming. Last but not least, based on my own self image and self respect, do not ever want to associate the song Wind Beneath My Wings, with any part of my life.

If that means I have to walk around the rest of my life with a gaping hole in a spirit I don't really believe in, than so be it. It's a possibility that I accept.

Please note, that all opinions stated at NTM are opinions only, and are not be construed as being "real" or objective statements about the phenomena we experience as "Reality" and can shift day to day if not minute by minute (as is more the case).

With your permission, I would like to post your email in it's entirety as well as my response for no other purpose than to publically give voice to your views (and link) without any other editorializing on my part.

Respectfully yours,

Mark

# posted by Cap'n Marrrrk : 3:54 PM