--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 <no_re...@...> wrote: > > i stand corrected wrt your views on this one, though you as curtis > make the blithe statement that the Mahairshi lied about so many > things. same challenge to you-- come up with five of them that can > be proved.
Well, I'm not sure I can come up with five without going back and looking up posts here to jog my memory (which I am too busy right now to do) but one that leaps to mind was promising to pay the "recertified" TM teachers a monthly salary for life once they gave up their careers and went full-time. Yeah, that happened. :-) I saw him once in Switzerland being asked about the money smuggling. He denied all knowledge of it, which somewhat shocked the Regional Coordinator sitting beside me, because he had been asked by Maharishi personally to do this many times, and had done it. Dare I mention "Enlightenment in 5-7 years?" :-) Once in Switzerland I watched him ream out a German blissnazi for not doing something that he had told him to do. The poor fellow was such a TB that he burst into tears and ran from the room. After he was gone, because I was sitting close as a result of being a State Coordinator, I heard Jerry go up and tell Maharishi that, in fact, he had given that instruction to a completely dif- ferent set of course leaders, and never to that German guy. Maharishi laughed and said, "Well, he must have felt guilty about *something*," and chuckled for several minutes over it. Not technically a lie, just poor memory and the inability to actually care about his students, but as I said I'm winging this. How about the promise to TM Teachers that they were accumulating "ATR credit," and then taking it all away? What of the numerous "fundraising drives" to get local TMers to contribute to buying a property that would definitely be used as a TM center for their town, and then turning around and selling the property off for a profit, leaving the town with no TM center and the contributors with empty pockets? That's five, and about all the time I wish to spend on this exercise. I'm sure others here could contribute a few more. If you had had more "face time" with Maharishi -- or any -- I'm sure that you could come up with five or more of your own.
