--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_re...@...> wrote:
The classic mistake of confusing the intensity of our beliefs with the probability that they are correct. Rookie error. The claim that Maharishi's course somehow made it snow shows that the claim is stated in a non falsifiable form. Anything that happened would have been evidence for his positive effect including war itself as some sort of purification from the effects of his course. There is always "something brewing" in the world, it takes no special knowledge to draw targets around events and claim magical powers over the world. This is grandiose fantasy at its most silly. "at_man_and_brahman" <Have I mentioned that the energy in the meditation > > halls was immense?> Haven't you heard this about any gathering of people with a common cause or belief? Can you imagine the "energy" at a Maoist rally of hundreds of thousands on Tienanmen Square in the presence of the man they KNEW was a living god? > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "at_man_and_brahman" > <at_man_and_brahman@> wrote: > > > > I was. Two comments: > > > > 1) the energy in the meditation halls was immense, > > and I have trouble believing it was confined to just > > the course participants. > > > > 2) As documented in press reports in recent years, > > and obliquely at the Wikipedia page on Stanislav > > Petrov, there was a deep fear in the Kremlin at the > > time that Pres. Raygun was about to launch a > > preemptive first strike. The Kremlin was considering > > trying to be first. Regardless of your opinion about > > the ME, it's interesting that Maharishi made an > > unexpected visit to the College of Natural Law in D.C. > > right around Thanksgiving and declared that it > > was imperative that 7000 be assembled before the > > end of the year. The Movement went into overdrive, > > both at CNL and MIU to invite and prepare for 7000 > > people to descend on the MIU campus by Christmas. > > It seems to me that Maharishi somehow "knew" that > > something bad was brewing and was trying to disarm it, > > even if he might not have been aware exactly what it > > was. > > > > Have I mentioned that the energy in the meditation > > halls was immense? > > Maharishi certainly knew the details. > After a course in the winter in northern Germany in, I believe 1978/79, He > said that we had just prevented the 3'rd world war. > A few years ago it was revealed that the CIA had indeed witnessed a huge > built up of Soviet military forces on the borders to Poland that Christmas > but that they where stopped by an enormous and historic snowfall. >
