--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: <snip> > Speaking directly to the "Buck" persona, what would > he answer to the question, "Has it ever occurred to > you that adherence to these policies is, in fact, a > ploy to keep the 'Dome numbers' *down*, a way of > making sure that the 'right numbers' are never > reached, and that the 'Maharishi Effect' is thus > never put to the test?" > > The former Big Donor who left the TMO so noisily > (whose name I almost forget but now seem to remember > as Kaplan) suggested in his parting shot letter that > Maharishi himself suggested this to him.
Lawson pointed out the obvious not long ago: It's *vanishingly* unlikely that MMY would have suggested such a thing to his Big Donor, from whom he was soliciting funds for the big TM-Sidhis group, no matter what MMY himself believed. OTOH, it's not at all unlikely that Kaplan, at the time he wrote the letter, remembered what he wanted to remember MMY saying in that conversation, and that what MMY actually suggested was something quite different. Of course, Barry believes what Kaplan reported implicitly, despite the fact that Kaplan *also* described all kinds of weird woo-woo that he claimed MMY was doing to psychically enslave TM-Sidhi practitioners, stuff Barry would dismiss immediately as fantastic nonsense. Talk about yer confirmation bias and cherry-picking!
