--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "george_deforest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Meditation group brings more tension than harmony to farm town > > http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5002842&nav=LotJ > WHO-TV Des Moines Wed, 07 Jun 2006 7:45 PM PDT > > SMITH CENTER, Kan. Followers of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi see his > Transcendental Meditation movement as fostering world harmony. > But in the farm town of Smith Center, Kansas, T-M's plans to > build its "World Capital of Peace" are creating more tension > than tranquility. > > Folks became alarmed when the group bought up large tracts of land, > and nine local pastors warned the movement that Smith Center is a > Christian community. > > Mayor Randy Archer says, "It hasn't split the community, but it has > caused a lot of tension." > > The T-M movement plans to build a dozen marble "peace palaces." > > Because Transcendental Meditation practitioners want to disperse > "waves of coherence" as widely as possible to influence others, they > chose a spot just ten miles west of the geographic center of the > Lower 48 states.
There is the possibility of a great horror movie in this, a la 'Shaun Of The Dead' or 'Young Frankenstein,' with mobs of torch-carrying villagers marching on the Peace Palaces in the dead of night. If they get John Goodman to play Bevan I'll definitely see it. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Protect your PC from spy ware with award winning anti spy technology. It's free. http://us.click.yahoo.com/97bhrC/LGxNAA/yQLSAA/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/
