According to what I've read, TMer meditation is the most popular yoga on the 
entiren planet. It was very impressive to see Heather Graham featured on the 
cover of Time with a mention of MMY. TMer meditation is so popular that a TMer 
was featured on the Oprah Show on TV. Very impressive. 

'The Science of Meditation'
Time Magazine, 
http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20030804,00.html 
http://tinyurl.com/bwmf5

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
 
And now they find themselves in a world that has all but forgotten Maharishi. 
His name is a quite literally a joke in spiritual circles 

When you consider that TMer meditation is being taught by the Deepakage and the 
Sri Sri, it looks like there are millions of people practicing TMer meditation 
all over the world. Millions of spiritual people take their meditation very 
seriously. Meditation is just what intelligent people do. These days the term 
"meditation" is a household word and everything is a "mantra".

Is there a better way?

and the only people who still believe he taught anything of value are the 
hangers-on in Fairfield and in other closed TM societies...

Non sequitur.
 
 From: "Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife]" 
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>   
 Sigh. You are right, the story isn't over yet. Bevan and his cronies have not 
yet paid for all their enormities, David Lynch has not yet cracked up in public 
and been carted off to a mental institution, Girish has not yet gone to prison 
for his various crimes, nor has he finished stealing as much of the Indian 
Movement's assets as he can, John Hagelin has not yet agreed to publicly debate 
real physicists and get horribly embarrassed, nor has he had to face the music 
for his abuse of his position as professor at MUM, the Movement has not 
withered away to the point where Girish and the Srivastavas brothers sell off 
the lands of the MUM campus, but it is all coming. 

 
 

 

 I can't disagree with your visions of TM's future, Michael, but today all I 
can feel is sadness for the people like Doug whose sense of self and identity 
are so stuck in the past that they are unable to move past it and live in the 
present. They live on dreams of how glorious it all was back when they were 
young and part of what they considered not only a community but a "movement," 
one that would change the world forever. They felt important and as if they 
were at the center of great events, and doing something that would be 
remembered forever.







 

 And now they find themselves in a world that has all but forgotten Maharishi. 
His name is a quite literally a joke in spiritual circles and the only people 
who still believe he taught anything of value are the hangers-on in Fairfield 
and in other closed TM societies. They seem to live for the day that the world 
will wake up and recognize their folly at laughing at Maharishi and at them for 
following him, and will praise them the way they still think of themselves -- 
as noble bringers of a new age and happiness and light and bliss and ice cream 
for everybody. 

 

 In other words, they're fuckin' delusional. 

 

 Some people get wiser as they get older, and closer to death. Others, fearing 
that they might have wasted their lives believing in things the world no longer 
values, start to panic and cling even more desperately to the dreams of their 
glorious youth.
 

 I don't know about you, but I prefer spending the rest of *my* incarnation 
with people who live in the present, not in dreams of the past and how 
important they think they were in that past. I really can't justify interacting 
with Doug and people who think like him any more, because it seems to only 
encourage them to invest more heavily in their delusions, as opposed to shaking 
them off. 

 

 

 

 







  
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