--- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <SNIP>
> Johny & Bob, > > I'm surprised by your negativity towards the rectification course, > you would probably call it 'being realistic' or such. > but know one thing , if MMY had that pattern of thinking towards > world enlightenment then he would have stayed the woods to begin with. > > cheer up ************** The recert program will fail, without question, as has almost every effort undertaken by the TMO, because of poor planning and failure to consult with level-headed consultants outside of the TM movement as a reality check. I am in favor of things that work for the TM movement, and the recert program will not. Why? Because the price of instruction in the USA is too high at $2500/pop, and it makes far more sense to have part-time teachers when the initiation rate is low like now, because the teachers are not an economic drain on the TMO. Also, you get much better coverage of the country with many part-time teachers than a relative handful of full-timers in big cities (apparently only about 550 teachers have signed up for the recert program). By saying that only a few full-time teachers can teach TM, and guaranteeing (temporarily) a salary of $4K/month, the TMO is committing itself to an expenditure of $2.2 mil/month (assuming 550 full-time teachers). The TMO is not publishing current initiation rates, but I suspect it is no more than 200/month in the USA ; in order to pay the salaries of 550 full-time teachers, 880 initiations per month would be necessary, and that does not include the many other costs of running the TM movement. The TMO has recently sold several properties, which may have brought in ~$30 mil (only one sale price was disclosed) http://geocities.com/bbrigante/updates.html#sales , but the burn rate of having full-time teachers in addition to the expenses associated with the building plans etc of the TMO means that the money will be gone in less than a year (and possibly there is no money available at all if the TMO is spending $40mil on the 40-day 100,000 pundit project in India that is being talked about), and all those people who quit their jobs to be full-time teachers will be back to being part-timers and looking for a job when the TMO pulls the plug on the salary. At one hour and 30 minutes into the 23Mar2005 press conference at mou.org, Maharishi says that it may take centuries for the pundits to restore Vedic civilization in India. With the flawed policy making of the TMO, I think that's a real likely figure unless Maharishi gets some more practical advisers (and as I have noted, these people have to come from outside the culty environment of the TMO crackpot mgmt crew): http://streaming.mou.org/MOU/Mar/wnews_23mar2005prt1_128 Bob Brigante http://geocities.com/bbrigante/updates.html 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/
