--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote:
>
> off_world_beings wrote:
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> > <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> , Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote:
> >
> >> Vaj wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Feb 17, 2010, at 5:40 AM, Premanand wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Has anyone seen a preview of this movie by David Sieveking yet?
> >>>> It was shown last weekend, and reviewed in Variety:-
> >>>> http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117942181.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
> >>>>
> > <http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117942181.html?categoryid=31&cs=1>
> >
> >>>> I notice Judith Bourque is listed as appearing, I wonder what she
> >>>>
> > had
> >
> >>>> to say?
> >>>>
> >>> I wonder if it will air in FF or Skelm? Looks like it may be a tad
> >>>
> > too
> >
> >>> honest for the TM crowd, claiming to out Mahesh's avaricious ways,
> >>>
> > his
> >
> >>> multiple affairs and he's even blasted by the Good Shank of the
> >>>
> > North
> >
> >>> (and fellow Guru Dev ghost worshipper). Hopefully they'll have boxes
> >>> of tissues and a cadre of exit counsellors waiting in the wings.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Back in Germany, Sieveking signs up for TM lessons. On the first
> >>>
> > day,
> >
> >>> he's required to bring some unusual items -- plus a check for
> >>>
> > E2,380.
> >
> >>> While covering the Maharashi's funeral in India and a subsequent
> >>> convening of his successors (the "Maharajah" and "Rajas") in the
> >>> Netherlands, Sieveking witnesses a battle for power within the TM
> >>> empire. He also spotlights some of the organization's questionable
> >>> plans for world peace (for which they raise millions of dollars)
> >>> including the fascist-sounding Invincible German and Bramasthan,
> >>>
> > where
> >
> >>> 10,000 pandits are supposed to be chanting 24/7.
> >>>
> >>> However, it's when he begins talking to renegade former TMers who
> >>> spill the beans about the Maharashi's multiple affairs and the way
> >>>
> > he
> >
> >>> bled followers for cash (e.g., raja training is available for $1
> >>> million), that emails start to fly and lawsuits are threatened.
> >>>
> >>> Pic's best moments include visits to the much-vaunted Bramasthan,
> >>> which turns out to be a ghost town, and to Swami Swaroopanand,
> >>> successor to Guru Dev, in a village near Tibet. The swami tells
> >>> Sieveking that the Maharashi, from a trader caste, was merely Dev's
> >>> bookkeeper and has no right to give mantras or teach meditation.
> >>> Besides, he notes, "Gurus don't sell their knowledge, they share
> >>>
> > it."
> >
> >> I'm surprised that David Lynch has stayed with TM this long. If he
> >> thinks Hollywood has "too many rules" then maybe he ought to look at
> >>
> > the
> >
> >> TM movement. One would think he would wake up to the scam>>
> >>
> >
> > It appears he got enlightened through TM. He admires Maharishi and TM so
> > much, and is very blissful about it.
> >
> > OffWorld
>
> I doubt that. I just think he thinks TM is a neat thing and hasn't look
> much further than his nose.
you don't have spiritual knowledge so you couldn't understand someone who does.
>
