--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" <anitaoaks4u@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > The immediate urgent priority for national > > invincibility and world peace is to join the > > Invincible America Course at MUM. Only 2000 > > Flyers, rising to 2500, in Fairfield/Maharishi > > Vedic City will bring security to America and > > defuse the precarious escalation of conflict in the world. > > "Earl, if we created the group then we don't know > if it would create World Peace or not", MMY via > Earl Kaplan from his letter, "The Truth".
Lawson made an interesting comment awhile back. He pointed out that the *context* of the discussion represented by this quote was Earl enthusiastically assuring MMY that once a large enough group had been established to demonstrate significant movement toward world peace, money would begin to flow like a torrent into TMO coffers. Lawson thinks Earl may have misquoted MMY due to misunderstanding, and that what MMY was saying was that what we didn't know was whether Earl's prediction about money flowing into the TMO would pan out. Lawson thinks MMY may have said something like "We don't know if this would happen or not," and Earl assumed "this" referred to world peace rather than an influx of money. (Or, possibly, decided it would serve his purposes to interpret it that way in his letter.) That seems plausible to me. While it wouldn't be all that implausible for MMY to have had his private doubts about large-group practice of the TM-Sidhis producing world peace, it's virtually impossible to imagine, as Lawson noted, that he would have shared such doubt with one of his biggest donors. Doubt regarding enough future support from a grateful world to sustain the group, on the other hand, is certainly something he might have shared with Earl, in the interests of persuading Earl to donate as much as he possibly could *right then* rather than counting on signs of world peace to inspire other folks to shower the TMO with money. Of course, we'll never know for certain (unless Earl decides to correct his quote). But I'm not sure we should take Earl's quote of MMY as definitive regarding MMY's confidence in the effect of the TM-Sidhis. (Caveat: This is not an argument for the effectiveness of the TM-Sidhis but purely a speculation as to what MMY actually said in his conversation with Earl. That should be obvious, but some folks here prefer to take things the wrong way if it serves their agenda.)
