On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:32 AM, seventhray1 <steve.sun...@sbcglobal.net>wrote:
> > > What would happen if the restrictive dome policy was rescinded? I am > asking because I don't know. > > It would be about the same. And the TMO and knowledge, such as it is, would die out. The TMO pushed the people who had grown beyond TM, the TMO and the Domes out of the nest. There's this endless bitching and moaning about exclusion. But if the policies were rescinded, the numbers wouldn't go up and stay there. TM, like SSRS and many other "paths" is self-limiting. TM appeals to a certain type of person for a certain amount of time. After that they find they should be on another path or the path dissolves away. Same thing happens with SSRS. Some really desperate non-Indians follow SSRS. You need to hear the stores told by CPs on SSRS's retreats. Some are getting off of alcohol, some drugs, some from TM, some are lost and lonely. Perhaps I'm just projecting, but I can see the vast majority of the non-Indian followers eventually getting what they wanted from their practice, getting "cured" by SSRS and seeing their desire just dissolve. When you take the Kriya course, most of the participants are people who started AOL years before, dropped it within weeks, have come back to try it again. The Indians will continue. Where else do they get to sing their music, do their dancing, feel truly accepted by their very own kind, be encouraged to dress like they were back in India? It's like the Polish American Club or the Italian American Club or the VFW. Will even the Indians stay with AOL throughout their lives? Good question. Maharishi's knowledge wasn't anything special. When you take away the hype, the glam, the golden pamphlets, calling a not all that striking dorm, meeting and dining development "Heavenly Mountain", you see why it was the product of an age of people of a certain age. Unlike many other movements, like the 7th Day Adventists, the Christian Scientists, the Society of Friends, the sects throughout history who spoke/speak in tongues, there's no human archetype which supports it. It doesn't satisfy a basic human need. Indeed even when Maharishi was alive there were so many meditators and initiators who want to have a direct, personal, bhakti relationship with Maharishi and that wasn't permitted. The lack of fulfillment on that was so palpable you couldn't cut it with a machete. Those left behind just can't sling the same hyperbole and lies and recreate reality as The Master could.
