We can all see that world consciousness is rising, but from whence? Maharishi said he tried to locate this source of the rise of world consciousness, and concluded that it was coming from everywhere at once. It must be obvious to those within, without, and on the fringe of the TM organization that the source of all the spiritual thinking in Fairfield is the Golden Domes. Why does anyone feel the need to defend or question the obvious? Maharishi's greatest innovation (maybe) is the group practice of TM. I like to think of TM as a bit like a man sitting (for argument's sake) in a cage suspended by a thick elastic band, hanging over a mine shaft; the elastic band represents the effect of the noisy collective consciousness keeping him from going deep. When more people join him in the cage, it falls further down the shaft in proportion to the combined weight (this is where the US TM obesity could be seen as an advantage - by the way, here in jolly old Blighty we appear to have the opposite problem, in that long programme seems to make people skinny), and he gets to enjoy the gems that are deep within. Without this blessing of group practice, we would not be able to access such deep levels of wakefulness so easily. David
