Despite the efficacy of the TM technique, many of the most regular meditators cringe at the prospect of recommending TM to anyone, as the confiscatory nature of the TMO threatens potential meditators with financial ruin should they become deeply involved in the TMO's programs. There's always another course, ayurvedic treatment, yagya, or new front door needed, etc., etc., etc. - It's reprehensible.
Were the high profit margins re-invested locally, one might rationalize the expenditure, yet even local centers, created with local funds, are controlled by 'International' and subject to sale and transfer of the proceeds of the sale overseas - until the next group of locals agrees to fund another local center, and a repeat of the same confiscatory process. It's great that the new MUM student center has a cutting edge, carbon-neurtral, all organic menu.... and that the Lynch weekend will hopefully be a big success for new students, yet the offer to fund TM instruction isn't such a magnanimous gesture- it's a no-brainer when the students commit to $30K / year for tuition. The TMO is well behind the curve in finding new adherents. The pandit housing at MUM reminds one that so few Americans want to be on the IA Assembly. Relying on imported help for more than 2/3 the USA's SR requirement to create coherence is precarious. Regarding the MAV medical school proposal - the grand gesture for free publicity by announcing a proposed new medical college coming to a town near you is getting is getting a bit tired - false promises only indebit the already bankrupt credibility account of the TMO. I look forward to hearing of an actual institution, instead of a speculative real estate deal. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mainstream20016" <mainstream20016@> > wrote: > > > > Saavy ? By the end of MMY's life, the TMO was crack-cocaine-addicted to > > $1m Raja > > course fees, the pool of potential Rajas had dried, the existing were Rajas > > tapped out. > > Western real estate holdings - the real business of the TMO over the past > > two decades, > > were depreciating at a rapid rate.... MMY would still be alive today had a > > really wealthy > > person embraced the TMO - he lost his spirit after decades of catering to > > the miniscule > > pool of in-house TM elite. > > In the meantime, the decades spent laying the foundation for rational > > society's > > acceptance of meditation was wasted as millions avoided the TMO. > > The TMO is dedicated to transferring American assets overseas; one bent on > > selling > every > > relative and spiritual thing possible, at inflated prices, to gullible > > Americans. The TMO > > expects America to fund the teaching of TM to rest of the world, while > > Americans are > > becoming less and less intelligent and less competitive with the world. > > The pattern mirrored America's 30 + year move toward devaluing middle and working- > > class people. In the meantime, suffering of the many was considered > > acceptable as the > > TMO embraced ego-obsessed wealthy elitists. But as MMY taught us, Natural > > Law > > eventually finds it way back to the lives of the many. Unfortunately, the > > TMO is > ironically > > out-of-touch with the resurgence of Natural Law's move back toward the many. > > Saavy ? Hardly. > > > In your opinion, of course. I look at the behind-the-scenes successes of the > David Lynch Foundation (they don't publicize them anymore -there's a charter school in Tucson where > all 160 studenss have learned TM for example, but the name is unknown save to > the > participants), as well as the new Argiro Student Center in MUM, and the > upcoming David > Lunch Weekend where participation in the $150 conference (wth free veggie > meals for 3 > days) gives y ou a chance to learn TM for free, not to mention the new > Brahmastan > facilities in Indiia, the new Pundit facilities in MUM, etc., etc., as being > signs that post- > Maharishi TMO is doing just fine > > ANd the plans to open a fully-accredited MD-style medical and post-MD PHD > school for > Maharishi Ayurveda in California is pretty slick as well. > > > > Lawson >
