Good stuff - I'd like to see it offered as an option on the cable, or electric bill, as just another utility - learn TM, installment payments, etc.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote : Yep, as many as 35,000 per month learned TM during the second Merv Wave. The numbers in the US are slowly picking up again. 8,000+ adults learned TM in 2012, which isn't even 10% of the Merv Wave numbers, but as Peter McWilliams told me he warned Maharishi about nearly 40 years ago: 35,000 per month isnt' sustainable, and the organization had to remake itself to survive with only a fraction of the number meditating. And it did. When Maharishi died, there were only a few hundred people learning TM in the USA. True, a lower price might have boosted that a bit, but the organizational structure wasn't built to survive on only a few hundred or few thousand initiations a year. Looking at the Maharishi Foundation figures since it was founded, the TMO appears to have found an island of stability, with the ability to scale upward a good bit within a few years, if needed, and then drop back down to "maintenance mode" if that is needed. L
