> > Does anyone remember if Maharishi actually said that > > enlightenment could come in 3-6 years or is it some > > pervasive Movement rumor? > > turquoiseb: > I have never heard that "3 to 6 years" figure. > However, when I first saw him in L.A. in 1967, > he was asked "How long should it take to get > to cosmic consciousness?" and he answered > "Five years." There were even brochures handed > out at 1015 Gayley with that claim on them. > Maybe in your dreams! I was there at every lecture and meeting and he made no such claim - BillyG was there too, and he never heard it.
But, none can be produced as evidence. I have one of the brochures from SRM from 1967 which says nothing about 'cosmic consciousness'. > Then five years passed for some of the "early > starters," and the figure on the brochure was > ...uh...revised to "five to seven years." > You're probably thinking of the SRM 'Seven Year Plan brochure. > That was claimed for some time, until it was > dropped entirely. > This ridiculous since by that time there were TMers in India that had been meditating for over ten years. Beaulah Smith had been practicing TM for eight years in 1967! > If Jerry Jarvis says that this was never claimed, > he is delusional, senile or lying. He was my TM > teacher; he handed me one of those brochures > himself. > Jerry Jarvis would have NEVER approved of any poster being sent out with a dumb promise like that - get real! Apparently you altered the text with a felt pen to read 'TM: A Promise of Cosmic Consciousness in 5-7 Years'. and so you got kicked out. LoL! It was stupid of you to try to pull that off, and even stupider to try and spread this rumor again here in FFL. Go figure.
