--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- 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.)
Good analysis, and that is why second hand information will always be just that, second hand! I think you have to look at the preponderance of the evidence. At any rate MMY certainly was an enigma......IMHO.
