See the section: "Efforts to obtain sovereignty" ..
Megalomania? Nope, not megalomania straight out. Your finding wanting 'Megalomania' on this is your small judgment, spin and opinion from your removed perspective as POV about the history of this. Evidently it was all much more experiment and facilitating maneuver towards an aspect of what they were developing as hypothesis and test in an iteration of an observation at a time about theories and science of management, society, and governance. A more fair understanding was this was large science being facilitated towards hypothesis testing as it seems they also bought and sold an island off the coast of Brazil trying these same things to no avail as far as obtaining a legal nation sovereignty. They along the way they bought a whole vast rural state district in Brazil complete with infrastructure, towns, utilities, farms, machinery and peasantry towards this end. Incidentally they made a commodity fortune in soybeans in that era and he then got out of it all. It was all in fact about testing hypothesis in large progressive ways like Maharishi did all along with the larger movement. Admire the guy as a scientist also. He was incredibly consistent and focused the whole time making observation, and formulating and testing hypothesis fusing science and spirituality. In your limited experience of course you may not appreciate this. That is fine though you could have improved upon your experience and understanding of this as the preponderance of modern science does seem well to indicate. Times evidently left you behind. In the end the best they could do with buying sovereignty is buy some buildings as titled private property in sovereignty [..person as sovereign over ones own hearth..] of the Global Country of World Peace owning property by title within the Iowa municipality of Vedic City then which they controlled as an Iowa city municipality. They renamed the original town, Vedic City around that same time then as, Maharishi Vedic City. In steps they are carefully 'positioned' as the Global Country within the codes of Iowa and these United States of America. Jai Guru Due-Process-of-Law. The 2010 ten-year Federal census pegged Maharishi Vedic City at just under 250 people. The augmenting pundits as a hired-in number fluctuate in their numbers living in a compound north of north of MVCity. The State of the Global Country, now? That Global Country part of the TM movement is distinguishable as its own element within what is and was TM from other active elements like the David Lynch Foundation which is out just teaching TM or the university as its own functioning community. The more effective Raja as an aspect in that theatrically nutty part of the TM movement is a very small group really. The effective ones who remain at that level function like executive vice-presidents of the corporation. A lot of them are now detailed to building monuments everywhere in the form of Maharishi Towers as an objective. Of the people who originally paid and became Rajas evidently that number has shrunk. There are capable Rajas and there are Rajas. Some number has bailed. It will be interesting to see when they someday come to having a “re-certification of Rajas”. There is a lot of positive communal introspection going on right now at all levels within TM as to what happened to the TM meditating movement and how Things might be done now to a better effect. They are open to suggestion. You got anything useful to say? -Buck on the Ground in Fairfield, Iowa ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : From: "j_alexander_stanley@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2015 5:20 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Wow! Now THAT is a bribe! Global Country of World Peace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Country_of_World_Peace See the section: "Efforts to obtain sovereignty" Thanks. I guess my only comment has to be, "Can you say 'DELUSIONAL?' I think you can." As Salyavin pointed out, had he never *heard* of Jonestown? Was he incapable of making the "OMG...another cult asking to make lurid headlines in our country" connection that anyone with half a brain would have made? Sometimes I really have to wonder how out of it Maharishi really was... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : Curious about what other territories besides Iceland Alex's bro got stuck "ruling," I found myself on a micronation.org Wiki page dedicated to the "Global Country of World Peace" that contained the following rather provocative statement: "The GCWP has made various unsuccessful attempts at attaining sovereignty as a micronation http://mw.micronation.org/wiki/Micronation during the years 2000 to 2002, offering sums in excess of $1 billion to small and impoverished countries in exchange for the sovereignty over part of their territory." Does anyone have anything to add to this reference? Given the dates cited, it is clear that this happened during Maharishi's lifetime, and that this bribe (there is, after all, no other way of describing it) was offered at his instigation. This brings up several questions. First, obviously, it tends to discredit Maharishi's own description of the GCWP as "a country without borders for peace loving people everywhere."He so clearly wanted it to be a real country that he was willing to try to bribe some poor real country -- *any* real country -- a billion bucks to get the rights to call it a real country. Second, and equally obviously, he didn't feel that the expenditure of a billion dollars was out of the question, financially. I mention this for those who claim that the TMO isn't "really" worth as much money as press estimates say it is. Third, WTF? This includes Maharishi in the same unpleasant group of losers who try to "buy" titles so they can pretend to be royalty. I find it difficult to interpret this as anything but megalomania run wild, but I wait with 'bated breath for TM True Believers to 'splain it all away... I can add something to it. I was watching the Marshy channel in 2004 (?) and he spent an hour or two ranting and raving about the government of Brazil, calling them backwards and anti-progress but without offering an explanation about why he thought that. The local TM teacher was mystified and had no answer other than that the reesh "sees natural laws at a deeper level blah blah..." One swift google later revealed that he had asked the Brazilian government for permission to start his own country around the land that the Maharishi Honey is produced, a country with it's own laws. They obviously said no, I was amazed that anyone would think that any government would give up it's territory to anyone, let alone a religious cult. It's like Jim Jones and the People's Temple never happened! He tried it with another country too, I think he wanted to buy an island off South America somewhere to do it, again with it's own laws etc. I considered it was rampant megalomania, the TMO had its own currency by then and were riding high on a wave of world-changing righteousness due to all the money the millionaires courses in Vlodrop had brought in. Towers of invincibility, raja crowns, what a laugh!
