[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Radical' 'Revolutionary' Transcendental Meditationists

[yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Thx, sorry but I don't get "it" - the scenario you're describing.  After 1975, 
the TM Movement suffered a precipitous decline in initiation numbers and by 
your own accout, there's only a few hundred initiations per year.
 While it's true that a revolution is going on on growing numbers of 
self-styled "Spiritual" but non-religious people, I see no ground swell of 
meditating Transcendentalists.  If anything, Mindfulness is increasingly 
supplanting TM in numbers.
 But overall, there are countless millions more religious Fundamentalists than 
Transcendentalists, and this has been the case since the middle of the 19-th 
Century when Methodism became a dominant  religion.  In recent decades, the 
numbers of nominal Catholics has declined with growing numbers of "lapsed 
Catholics" and the Evangelicals supplanting the mainstream branches.
 ....But still no evidence of more TM Initiations.  Such numbers are shrinking 
to almost zero.
 The best strategy may be for the remnant leaders of the TMO to become 
Mindfulness teachers and ride that wave of popularity.