MJ, I can't speak for you or your friends poor or sad experiences. I am glad that you can allow for the possibility of my own satisfying experience with it all. My experience with the TM Movement and around Maharishi has been one of quite satisfying spirituality. Possibly though when I began at an early age I was never enmeshed as a devotee but rather as just a practitioner and participant that way and not much dependent on the organization other than for its facilitating meditating and group meditations. All along it either worked or if it would have not then I would have moved on. That may well have been in the nature of my whole Iowa upbringing, different from others background. But in the meantime we all did a lot of large and great things with TM. Like dragging science in to spirituality. As a transcendentalism movement we were successful leaving a foot print on larger culture for all the campaigning we did at a time out on the front line. It was revolutionary. I was glad to have been on the 'long march' with Maharishi in his time. You can't take that away from us for all of your blanket carping. We do share a brother-hood as transcendentalists and Fairfield is still a fabulous place to live for its being a meditator's place. It's a highly spiritual place and the MUM University here is still a visionary's place to go to school along with others of like high-mind. I'd go to school there. It is a place and an organization to be proud of even now.
Which would you rather experience: living the paradox or understanding it to your satisfaction? I am here to plead Maharishi's cause with you. I plead not for his life, but for his character — his immortal life; and so it becomes your cause wholly, and is not his in the least. Some twenty-one hundred years ago Christ was crucified; this morning, perchance, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was hung again by someone on FairfieldLife at Yahoo-Groups. These are the two ends of a chain which is not without its links. He is not Old Maharishi any longer; he is an angel of light. !Jai Maharishi Mahesh Yogi! -Buck in the Dome
