off_world_beings wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "boo_lives" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >>> Nabs is delirious again, Mary--just keep that in mind.:) >>> > Whether > >>> it's 'worth it' or not isn't the issue. Most people here agree >>> > with > >>> your assessment of the TMO's ridiculous prices. >>> >>> Sal >>> >> Mary, I learned TM for $35 in the early 70s, and it was $125 (for >> adults, less for students) when I taught it later in the 70s. >> >> > > Yes, it seems Maharishi learned since then that flakey people come > knocking if it is free, or cheap, so he wants more responsible people > coming around. > > So if a person is studying to be a doctor or an engineer or an > architect or international finance, then the cost would dissapear > into their student loans as negligible. > If a person is already graduated and successful as one of those > people above then the cost is negligible. > > Seems to make sense to me, he would get more responsible and > pragmatic people than you or I that way. > > OffWorld > > Oh baloney! If you know anything about doctors most of them become ones because daddy was a doctor and pulled strings to get them through medical school just like his daddy did. As for engineers I am one. Self trained too and for a long time if you wanted anyone who really knew anything about computer software development you didn't get them out of colleges who had archaic software engineering programs. More responsible? I must have been pretty irresponsible I guess to 1) be on an advisory board for a Bay Area college's computer science department and 2) to be on the steering committees that produced some of the stuff you are probably using on your computer (such as the group that resulted in Microsoft's DirectX) and 3) a successful manager in a successful software firm. Of course you'll have to speak for yourself in the absent minded professor role. :)
My bet (and experience too) is those with that much expendable income would probably do TM for a few months and drop it like the majority do or have done. If Maharishi really wanted to do something good for the world he'd really soak the rich until they were broke but he's not that good a con artist.
