A followup to Rick's original post on TM-Sidhi origins and money-making as a primary motivation:
(...)unfortunately my information comes via a friend who knew someone so take it for what it may be worth. The person I knew was one of MMY's secretaries who knew Conny Larsson, one of MMY's long-standing followers. Apparently Helga Fiernau (not exactly sure how to spell her family name; she was the head of finance at the time) complained that MMY was broke because of all the money spent on maintaining the international staff. Apparently this was after the Fiuggi and Mallorca courses. For reasons I don't understand, Conny spent the night in MMY's room while MMY slept; I do not know why MMY needed anyone to do this. In the morning MMY instructed Conny to call all the 108 together and then announced to them that during the night Patanjali had come to him and told him to teach the Siddhis. -- Conny told my source that he was there. MMY was there. Patanjali was not there. From what I gather, MMY's modus operandi was to never let one group know what another group was doing. Another supposed insider had once quipped "divide and conquer" -- I learned the "sidhi" program from MMY and hated how it made me feel. I never hopped. I saw so many struggling mightily trying to. It never crossed my mind that he didn't invent it, especially after getting the A of E techniques from him as well and they were somewhat more obviously just an invention and stuff I had heard from outside-TM sources. It never seemed logical that after secret supposed Sanskrit mantras we were suddenly doing this in English! There are several quite highly recommended non-TM translations of the Yoga Sutras that don't seem to have any axe to grind with TM that certainly do not in any way support what MMY taught. What is unquestionable is that after the "sidhi" program he wasn't broke any more. 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/
