--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (snip) > > > > What happened was this: > > > > > > > > After spending the previous 25 years relentlessly and selflessly > > > > promoting TM to the point at which he, Maharishi, the TM > Movement, > > > > and the TM Technique had actually gained some semblance of > > > > credibility, he flushed it ALL down the toilet by introducing the > > > > flying technique to the world in the manner that he did. > > > > > > > > This was in late '76, early '77. > (snip) > This was also about the time, that the TMO was being dragged through > the courts, the puja revealed as being a religious ceremony, etc. > I remember Jerry Jarvis being enraged that TM having been so > successfully taught and the excitement of having TM taught in public > school, being short-circuited by the courts decision. > Much of the emphasis to make TM a scientifically based technique, and > not in the realm of mysticism or religion, had suddenly been deemed a > religious rite and banned from public schools, etc. > Jerry was saying how stupid the decision was and how angry he was > about it, and that they had decided not to appeal the decision.
Although I respect Jerry enormously, I have to disagree with him on this one. Have any of you seen the SCI curriculum book for the high schoolers that the TMO drew up for them to use? I did. I was a student at MIU at the time and it was passed around for us to take a gander at. IT WAS A COMPLETE AND UNEQUIVOCAL RELIGIOUS BOOK. All you had to do was replace the words "absolute", "pure consciousness", or "being" withe "God" and it would have read the same. There was nothing scientific about it and it would have been a travesty of justice if the other side hadn't have won. The TMO was just stupid in writing up the curriculum book. Talk about "vetting"! Well, no one vetted it, obviously, from the legal standpoint of separation of church and state. I assume that there were a whole bunch of "yes" men around Maharishi telling him how wonderful it was. And there was no one to whisper: "hey, this is great stuff but it simply doesn't pass the smell test when it comes to separation of church and state." All the TMO had to do was change some of its language here and there and it would have passed muster. But, no, that's not how things are done in the TMO. Maharishi, the guru, gets to do what he wants, the "yes" men -- afraid of losing their place in the pecking order of getting his darshan -- don't say "boo!", and the TMO gets fucked over each and every time. And they have no one to blame but themselves. > So, this is when things started to change, and some of the people who > had contributed to the success of the TM movement, Jerry Jarvis and > some of the others, left the movement. > They were replaced with Bevan and the others who brought different > tone to the whole thing. > I feel this contributed to what happened around the time of 1977- > 1978... > R.G. >
