--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Donovan is still around? Oh my god! I had no idea. I didnt know he > was a meditator either. I loved Brother Sun Sister Moon. > > There don't seem to be as many celebrities endorsing TM anymore like > they did in the "old" days. Doug Henning was the resident celebrity > when I was in FAirfield. Plus visits from Mike Love, Stephen > Collins, etc.
David Lynch, Heather Graham, Donovan, the fomer President of Mozambique (a sidha who got his entire cabinet and military staff doing TM), and quite a few others. Recall that there's no need for celebrity endorsements to the public if you've jacked the price to the point that only celebrities can learn it. > > You think raising the price to meditate was inspired? Definitely. MMY knew he only had a few years left and had to put his house in order after Deepak's departure dragged 100's of TM teachers with him. By raising the price he not only made TM more attractive to the Bohemian Grove types, he ensured that his successor would have only the most fanatically loyal core of TM teachers and administration to deal with. By charging $1 million for membership in the Raja's CLub, he ensured that only people who were REALLY fanatical and (theoretically) competent enough to be able to raise $1 million in the first place would be in charge of his organization after he was gone. Do you think > the movement needed those big donations? Absolutely. > For what? http://www.mum.edu/campus/student_center.html for example. Also: http://www.maharishi.org.ua/india2006/ I would rather > see people learning to meditate. MMY's goal has always been the spipritual regeneration of all of Mankind. To do that, you need (according to his theory) 1% of the word meditating as individuals, or about 650,000,000 TMers, OR 8000 TM-Sidhas practicing in one place at all times Even using the best results from the Mev Griffon days, where 35,000 people a month were learning, you'd need to teach TM for 2000 years at that rate to get that many people meditating and most of them would be dead or stopped practicing by the time you were done. ON the other hand, with just a handful of relatively rich donors, you can create quite a few places where 8000 TM-Sidhas can gather every day indefinitely within a few years time. The Settle Foundation is willing to fund 1500 people doing TM-SIdhis and yagyas at MUM/Vedic City, for example. There are no TM centers anymore, so > the local meditators really have no sense of community, and no one > is learning to meditate either. Tucson, AZ has an active TM center, for heaves' sake. There's a pilot David Lynch project here with 160 kids in a charter school. We bought some land locally for a > Peace Palace a few years ago, but there is no money to build > anything on it. So, if you can't raise the money to build and operate it locally, why should the national TMO do it for you? If Tucson can fund a local TM presence, most places can. Of course, most TM teachers aren't as competent (in my eyes) as Denise Densiston-Gerace and Joseph Gerace, but that's nothing to do with the national level TMO or its policies --just luck of the draw of who is willing to live where. So nothing is happening. Another TM project dead in > the water. Where did all that big money go to? See the URLs above. Lawson
