--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hgiammarco" <HEYPHILA@> wrote: > > > > Why does T/M cost so much to join? A little help? > > MMY decided to target the elite since they are the most > influential members of society and most likely to be able > to donate large sums of money if they are so inclined.
And as a result of this focus, the number of people learning TM has plunged to near-zero worldwide, indicating that what Maharishi seems to be most interested in is money, and *not* in helping people by teaching them a valuable technique of meditation. An interesting "test case" seems to be about to take place in the Florida courts, in which the organization that claims it wants to spread TM to as many people as possible is suing a TM teacher who is teaching TM for the price he's always taught it. He has not only refused to raise his prices because the TM organization demands that he do so, he has refused to pay that organization several thousand dollars to be "recertified" at teaching something he was fully certified to teach years ago. It should be interesting to see how the TM organization defends its position in court. The fascinating exchange in that case, in my opinion, is going to be when the fellow's lawyer asks the "official, recertified" teachers, under oath, how many people have been instructed in TM *in the entire world* in the last year at the "official" price, and that number turns out to be less than the number of people that the teacher they are suing has taught in one small town in Florida during the same period. The bottom line is that "TM" is just a brand name for a made-up technique of meditation that is (in my opinion as a former TM teacher) no better than any other tech- nique of meditation, less effective than many, and more likely to produce negative side effects than most. Shop around...you'll find that there are people out there who still care more about helping people by teaching them a useful technique of meditation for free or at a reason- able price than they care about making money. But you won't find them in the TM movement. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
