--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This week is the 30th anniversary of Jonestown. I was in Iran > on the world peace project when it happened and my buddies > freaked out when I went missing one night. I didn't show up > for a meeting because I was in a friend's room reading about > the incident in his TIME magazine.
In a post back in June, I quoted an alt.m.t post from John Knapp of Trancenet (and lately of the TMFree blog) concerning the purported reaction of his TTCC to news of Jonestown, in the context of some hysterical press releases he'd sent out about one of MMY's projects to send TM teachers to third world countries, which he repeatedly warned was likely to turn into another Jonestown. Here it is again, along with my comments. Knapp wrote: "(As fate would have it, the Guyana massacre happened during my Teacher Training Phase III. I remember we all held our breath when the TV anchorman announced a massacre among a religious community in Central America. Was he talking about the Maharishi's World Peace Project? Many of us had TM governor friends in Central America at that very moment, rounding to save the world from nuclear disaster.)" The "World Peace Project" Knapp refers to involved groups of TM-Sidhis practitioners going to various trouble spots (Nicaragua for one) to do their program together. The TMers weren't there to "save the world from nuclear disaster," but rather with the goal of calming down ongoing local hostilities. Nor, of course, were Knapp and his TTC buddies "holding their breaths" because they feared a Jonestown-like tragedy among the TMers in Nicaragua. Rather, they were concerned that the TMers might have become innocent casualties of the fighting--a very real possibility which, thankfully, did not occur.
