sounds like a friend of a friend of a ... = rumours. R do you personaly know the source?
--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From a friend: > > Hi Rick, > > Received this by email this morning. The originating > source is said to be "a core movement person who has > done alot on the�government level to get funding for > people to learn TM...one of the few�out there > actually teaching."� > > > *** > > "....When we arrived in Vedic City off MUM campus we > were immediately asked to sign several documents > swearing allegiance to the new platform and it's > policies.� We were housed in the pundits newly > constructed headquarters.� Over 100 MUM faculty and 20 > governors took the 15 day course. > > It was hell.� Teachers were being told daily that they > must adjust to the changing operating principle > explained by Maharishi in live broadcasts.� At the > beginning of each day, after 3.5 hours of morning > rounds (and 3.5 each evening), we had to� stand up and > greet the robed and crowned rajas who arrived in > stretch limos.� They conducted the course and included > faculty members the Dillbecks, Rogers Badget and his > wife and a businessman Raja Dean (not a governor but a > graduate of the millionaires course in Vlodrop).� > Maharishi chastised the governors dail;y and > consistently for the past level of non-cooperation.� > He was clear and forceful to say the least.� I felt at > times that he actually took pleasure in making the > course participants uncomfortable.� After the first > five days everyone on the course that I spoke to > wanted to leave, everyone.� The long term full-timer > national staff were the first to accept it. > > We were told that prior to the course 2400 bank > accounts were set up to deposit funds throughout the > country. Grads of this course were told that 4-5 days > after completion they must find rental space, 3000 sq > ft, in 1. shopping malls, or 2. retail office space or > 3. hotels and hire and train 9 full-time employees to > work in the new Maharishi Enlightenment Center.� Four > of the employees would be licensed massage therapists, > 2 men, 2 women and would be trained in a 2 day, not 2 > week course, to work a minimum 30 hrs per week @ > approx $15 an hour.� Each would be also required to > take TM instruction at the $2500 fee.� The other 5 > employees would include 2 full time sales people for > Sthapatya ved construction, 1 to run the day spa and > organize courses (TM, Jyotish, Yagyas, MAPI sales, > etc.) and� the other 2 were not clearly defined.� In > total there would be 55 services offered, 20 of which > would be ayurvedic.� One hour abyanga treatment would > cost $170 and be administered by 1 tech.� Maharishi > made it clear, in no uncertain terms, that the� goal > was to make a large amount of money that is needed to > fund the project for world peace. > > Once the spa palace is set up each director would then > go to another nearby location and set up the same > thing until 5 spas are up and running.� For their > salarys, teachers would be required to instruct 2 > people a month at the full fee of $2500 and raise $3 > million for the peace palace, $1.5 down and 1.5 in > bank loans would be sufficient. > > Teachers would not be able to check, lecture or > instruct members of the opposite sex.� If necessary, > teachers would be required to > commute whatever distance to accommodate this > requirement.� And once again, the minimum daily > rounding schedule would be 3.5 hours in the AM and > 3.5 hours in the PM. Once completed, directors would > be invited to one month of Raja training in Vlodrop > and would learn how to command the laws of nature.� > Each would be returning to live in their newly > constructed peace palace.� Rajas would be required to > wear crowns and robes� in their new positions as > rajas.� There is no teaching part time and no teaching > permitted by teachers who have not completed > recertification courses." 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/
