Well by your standards yes. TM-org once ripped me for 900 bucks. They
promised to send me material for 'total knowlege course' but never sent it.
Once I was thrown out of a Maharishi school in India for asking too many
questions.
Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:55:25 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Srivastava Mafia's Cut - Florida Land??
Jason, God luv ya! You sound like a TMO virgin ;-)
Does anyone know where the Vedaland location is in
Florida? I'm assuming it is central Florida which
would not be very valuable land at all. Now if it was
in Key West........
--- boo_lives <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote:
> --- Jason <jedi_spock@ ...> wrote:
>
> > This is madness. Sheer madness.
> >
> > Small permanent meditation centres are
> what the TM-mov't
> really needs. Small meditation groups in small
> localities can really
> purify the World Consciousness and create World
> Peace.!!
> >
> > You don't really need 13 Tallest buildings
> and Pyramids. A
> much more flattened network of plain old vanilla TM
> meditating groups
> can create wonders.
> >
> > Sometimes I feel that TM-org does not
> really want to create
> World Peace.
>
> But there's no support for meditation centers at the
> higher levels of
> the tmo. There was the push for recertification and
> Enlightenment
> centers a few yrs ago, but the plans were so wacky
> that few were
> started and all failed. To operate a local center
> the local teachers
> need to make a living and that ain't happening. No
> one is starting TM
> at the current price and with the current marketing.
> There are people
> on this forum defending the TM price strategy - I
> asked whether they
> spent $4500 to get recertified and then went out to
> run an
> Enlightenment Center, in which you had to have a
> minimum number of
> initiations each month to get the $2000 per month
> salary????
>
> I feel you determine what any organization is really
> interested in by
> looking where they invest their money and their
> energy. The TMO has
> hundreds of millions invested in offshore acc'ts and
> real estate
> earning interest and capital gains. If a donor
> comes forward to
> support a specific world peace project, like the
> ffld course, then it
> goes forward, but when the donation dries up so does
> the peace
> project. See what happens when Settle stops giving
> $1 million a month
> to MUM, the course there will stop in favor of some
> big new wonderful
> golden age project for which there is a desperate
> need for funds,
> never will the TMO dip into its own pocket to keep
> that course going.
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