claudiouk wrote: >>>> Is it maybe time for an unofficial global >>>> network of unrecertified TM teachers >>>> listed on the net, via a dedicated webpage...? >>>> Could even rekindle the "lost" spirit of the >>>> Movement and be open to feedback and >>>> suggestions from meditators, for a change... >>>> call it iTM (independent Transcendental >>>> Meditators..)
>>> TurquoiseB wrote: >>> >>> It's funny, but this is the entire reason I >>> dropped into FFL. The minute I >>> heard the gossip about the new Enlightenment >>> Burger franchises I figured that >>> there was now absolutely nothing preventing >>> the old, obsolted TM teachers >>> from teaching TM anywhere they want, for >>> free if they want to. There is, >>> after all, nothing left in the TM movement for them. >> >> off_world_beings < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > >> I sometimes wonder if that is what Maharishi is actually trying to achieve. >> For you teachers to become Maharishis since he always said his goal was to >> create Maharishis. So you figure oout on your own now how to create world >> peace. (nah, maybe not) > > Peter Sutphen wrote: > The play of consciousness works in mysterious ways, Off. Maybe you're right. I wonder what models exist for an independent TM organization. For example, why did a separate organization for structural integration spin off from Ida Rolf's outfit? What good has come of it? They're doing essentially the same thing, as I understand it. The split between the Catholic church and Protestantism doesn't count as a precedent because differences in theology drove the split. The product is different, if you will. In the case of an independent TM organization, the product would be the same. The selling proposition would be, "the same great technique at a fraction of the cost." Which sounds like a great raison d'etre until Maharishi drops the body and his replacements, struck by an attack of sanity, drop the price. Of course, if the new organization fizzled because the old organization reformed itself, that would not be a bad thing. When I think about what it would take to get an independent TM movement off the ground, it makes me appreciate all the more what Maharishi accomplished. - Patrick Gillam 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/
