---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote :
Quite simply, if "Maharishi's knowledge" had been worth a shit to begin with, such policies and the attitudes they spring from could never have been born in the first place. Proximity to Marshy and length of time spent both administering the Movement and doing TMSP breeds arrogance, elitism, uncaring attitudes about common people, greed and a general display of poor behavior. That's because we are talking about human beings here. What did you think, because people meditate that they stop being human in some way? People are flawed, are weak, are full of all sorts of "negative" tendencies and traits. What magic potion did you think existed that could change that, fundamentally? Obviously I am missing the idealism gene because I never understood TM to be some airy fairy panacea that would eliminate the basic characteristics that single us out as humans - the need to be more powerful, better and privileged than the next guy (I'm exaggerating here. Most people would just be happy with a slightly bigger helping of Rocky Road ice cream.) Consequently, I was never surprised when assholes remained assholes and nice guys stayed nice, no matter how much they had been meditating or cavorting around the vicinity of MMY.
