[Mike O]

The cult stigma is prolly well deserved at times.

Birdie Man- I'm with you here.
No handshake secrets in my travels but for those that are looking for something more - the Golfing Machine really is the only thing that really plays in a different playground in my mind. In regards to published golf instruction- for us TGM fans- it's a desert out there and then when you do run into this thing- it's like water or a drug! The divergence is so large that it does create a passion, appreciation, fevor, call it whatever you want- so in my mind there is a real catch 22 in that regard - sharing the ideas, and the excitement without allowing yourself to turn people off or become so enamored with it that you don't look at it with a critical eye at times. That Catch 22 for TGM obsessed pupils in unrelated to the era or times- even in the early 80's you had the same issue- and I know Mr. Kelley said and "Never sell the system!"- in the sense of being to aggressive or fanatical- he knew that would only hurt the "system" and I'm sure that he believed in it enough that he knew he didn't need to - In one of the published interviews he said something to the affect that the system would sell itself (with the successes) and if it didn't then there was something wrong with it. Why would people just switch over when they been led down so many other dead ends and this is just another system.

Anyway- I'll rambling incoherently now- and covering old ground- but all of these posts here really are very spot on in regards to their criticism and also to the positive comments. Gotta get back to studying the book