Well, yes, that is the point of using famous people to promote a product: people are interested in the famous person, and while watching the famous person, they've learned to associate whatever good vibes they get from thinking about the famous person with the product.
In this case, MUM. HUGE plus for the TMO and MUM itself. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : It went viral because Carrey is a famous actor, not because of ANYTHING the university says or does. From: "LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 6:30 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] ~~~~~~~~~~ about TMO friendship ~~~~~~~~~~~ Why does everyone assume that the model that MMY developed must be the only model that the TM organization can use? The David Lynch Foundation does just fine getting new and old-time celebrities to support the cause, and just because you don't see the new wave that is beginning, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Jim Carrey's commencement speech to MUM has gone viral with 6+ million views on youtube: Full Speech: Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at the 2014 MUM Graduation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V80-gPkpH6M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V80-gPkpH6M Full Speech: Jim Carrey's Commencement Address a... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V80-gPkpH6M Maharishi University of Management (http://www.mum.edu) granted degrees to 285 students representing 54 countries. Jim Carrey gave the commencement a... View on www.youtube... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V80-gPkpH6M Preview by Yahoo That's 5+ million people who never would have heard of MUM otherwise. If nothing else, the google adsense revenue alone should be enough to pay for a full-time MUM faculty member. And the TM org is canny enough to figure out how to continue creating new publicity at all levels. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : The problem I see for the TMO, moving into the future, is that it's an organization in which NO ONE inspires confidence. You would *have* to be an existing, pre-programmed-as-the-result-of-decades-of-propaganda True Believer to find *any* of the leaders or "celebrity spokespersons" of the TM movement in any way charismatic or confidence-inspiring. Show photos of them to anyone under 30, straight off the street, and they'd laugh at you for considering them worthy of attention, much less worthy of being "followed" in a spiritual context. Young, dynamic people don't "follow" people who look like this:
