jim_flanegin wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <snip>
>
>> Sounds like the Maharishi Gulag program. I think 60 Minutes might
>>
> want
>
>> to do a story.
>>
>>
> There is a unique feature here in Santa Clara, California where I
> live; a convent pretty much in the center of town, surrounded by adobe
> walls, about ten feet in height, the grounds sheltered by palms and a
> large grove of olive trees. There is a long driveway of about 75 yards
> to the main building, and although I have passed it many times, I've
> never been able to see anyone within the grounds. No windows are
> visible from the outside either. It has been around for about one
> hundred years. Poor bastards.
I have no problem with the privacy of ashrams, monasteries, or
convents. But those aren't prisons. People can still usually come and
go. This just adds to the cultist reputation of the TM movement.
