It is odd to be away from the TMO/MMY madness for so many years and then to hear people prattle on about nonsensical concepts such as the center of a country being where you can best influence the country (uh?) and building 50 campuses, one for each state. Such craziness. Can you imagine that place in 5 years? Just rusted steel girders, that's all.
--- On Mon, 3/16/09, yateendrajee <mcint...@scn.org> wrote: > From: yateendrajee <mcint...@scn.org> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi Central University [Re: Irresponsible > Advice] > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 12:02 PM > Regarding Maharishi Central University, here's a video > news clip from a television station in Hastings, NE, which > was produced in May, 2008. > > http://new.khastv.com/modules/news/article.php?storytopic=10&storyid=13392 > > I have been away from the TM movement for twenty-seven > years, and this clip revives memories of discomfort over how > grandiose things were getting when I left. > > Yet my memories of the TM community and attendance at MIU > include deep, positive feelings of idealism, inner freedom > and people all around me making personal sacrifices for > higher, mutual ideals. > > Those ideals are embodied in the architectural computer > animations and the partially completed buildings of the MCU > campus in Smith Center, KS. > > Lately I've been musing on how the trajectory of the TM > Organization, and that of the path I took afterwards, seems > to parallel the path of Western society as a whole over the > last 25 years or so. There has been a mood of optimism and > dynamic progress, followed by a period of "irrational > exuberance," and now we find that we went a little too > far and need to bring our optimism (reflected in the value > of assets) back closer to "concrete reality." > Unfortunately, the tendency in a contraction is to become > too pessimistic, so the value of assets plunges below what > would be rational. I'm afraid the TM movement will be > facing this contraction, just as wider society will. > > But does that mean that spirituality is headed for a > contraction as well? IMO, Absolutely not! > > According to my intuition, history shows that the greatest > spiritual progress has been made during the hardest times. > God doesn't need a huge infrastructure to help his souls > learn what he sent them here to learn. > > In the early seventies, the late historian and social > commentator Studs Terkel collected audio interviews for his > book "Hard Times" (selections on webpage below). > Check out his conversation with Peggy Terry (near the bottom > of the page). She didn't earn a Ph.D. (barely finished > the sixth grade) but check out the revolution in her > understanding as the result of living through the Great > Depression! > > http://www.studsterkel.org/htimes.php > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, > "guyfawkes91" <guyfawke...@...> wrote: > > > Anyone have any news on the 10,000's of students > queuing up for Maharishi Central University? Last I heard > Wynne was telling lies about how wonderful it was all going, > while the local newspaper was reporting that the girders > were rusting quite nicely and the weeds were coming along > just fine but apart from that nothing was happening. > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > To subscribe, send a message to: > fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
