>From a friend: Hi Rick,
Received this by email this morning. The originating source is said to be "a core movement person who has done alot on the government level to get funding for people to learn TM...one of the few out there actually teaching." *** "....When we arrived in Vedic City off MUM campus we were immediately asked to sign several documents swearing allegiance to the new platform and it's policies. We were housed in the pundits newly constructed headquarters. Over 100 MUM faculty and 20 governors took the 15 day course. It was hell. Teachers were being told daily that they must adjust to the changing operating principle explained by Maharishi in live broadcasts. At the beginning of each day, after 3.5 hours of morning rounds (and 3.5 each evening), we had to stand up and greet the robed and crowned rajas who arrived in stretch limos. They conducted the course and included faculty members the Dillbecks, Rogers Badget and his wife and a businessman Raja Dean (not a governor but a graduate of the millionaires course in Vlodrop). Maharishi chastised the governors dail;y and consistently for the past level of non-cooperation. He was clear and forceful to say the least. I felt at times that he actually took pleasure in making the course participants uncomfortable. After the first five days everyone on the course that I spoke to wanted to leave, everyone. The long term full-timer national staff were the first to accept it. We were told that prior to the course 2400 bank accounts were set up to deposit funds throughout the country. Grads of this course were told that 4-5 days after completion they must find rental space, 3000 sq ft, in 1. shopping malls, or 2. retail office space or 3. hotels and hire and train 9 full-time employees to work in the new Maharishi Enlightenment Center. Four of the employees would be licensed massage therapists, 2 men, 2 women and would be trained in a 2 day, not 2 week course, to work a minimum 30 hrs per week @ approx $15 an hour. Each would be also required to take TM instruction at the $2500 fee. The other 5 employees would include 2 full time sales people for Sthapatya ved construction, 1 to run the day spa and organize courses (TM, Jyotish, Yagyas, MAPI sales, etc.) and the other 2 were not clearly defined. In total there would be 55 services offered, 20 of which would be ayurvedic. One hour abyanga treatment would cost $170 and be administered by 1 tech. Maharishi made it clear, in no uncertain terms, that the goal was to make a large amount of money that is needed to fund the project for world peace. Once the spa palace is set up each director would then go to another nearby location and set up the same thing until 5 spas are up and running. For their salarys, teachers would be required to instruct 2 people a month at the full fee of $2500 and raise $3 million for the peace palace, $1.5 down and 1.5 in bank loans would be sufficient. Teachers would not be able to check, lecture or instruct members of the opposite sex. If necessary, teachers would be required to commute whatever distance to accommodate this requirement. And once again, the minimum daily rounding schedule would be 3.5 hours in the AM and 3.5 hours in the PM. Once completed, directors would be invited to one month of Raja training in Vlodrop and would learn how to command the laws of nature. Each would be returning to live in their newly constructed peace palace. Rajas would be required to wear crowns and robes in their new positions as rajas. There is no teaching part time and no teaching permitted by teachers who have not completed recertification courses." To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
