On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Hugo <richardhughes...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > You need space from the TMO to get perspective and see > how strange it all is. > >
That's what kept me so "loyal" of a TB for so many years. I would go to a course, have bullshit up to here. I'd go home, jump into life. I'd build up dissonance, complain to a few choice friends about the craziness of it all, then in a year or two go back to a course. I thought I was unfortunate to be in an area where there's not been an active TM Center/Capital of the Age of Enlightment/Raja Headquarters year after year. The fact is, it's the lack of a TM Center and the previous lack of the TMO all over the Internet that kept me loyal to the TMO. I could do my program, distance myself from the craziness. I recently joined remotely the activities of the Hindu Temple of Fairfield. When I get the newsletters of upcoming pujas, archanas and homas, there's ever a mention of Maharishi. I just blow those mentions of Maharishi off. To me the only thing that matters with Maharishi is the connections I made with him on residence courses and later early preparatory courses when the knowledge portion of the program was playing and discussing the Humbuldt tapes. The yagna group I belong to in India is populated by former Maharishi pundits, some of the many Maharishi cast offs. It's OK to gush about Maharishi, but you don't get an answer back from them mentioning Maharishi. They are doing their own thing. And yes, they admit and fully publicize that they are offering prayers to the gods. Are they a rip off, considering what the rupee buys in India versus the dollars I send? Not really. There are North American and European liaisons who have to offer the Internet access, do the bookkeeping, the publicity around the world, be the frontmen. That costs money. Tain't nobody making a killing in my yagna group even though the nearly monthly personal planetary yagnas cost $650. What matters to me is that I receive continuing benefit from the yagnas. I am the sole judge and jury here.
