A lot of intelligent, well-educated Meditators inkl. TM-Teachers build up the Movement in the West in the 60th and 70ths successfully, for free, using a lot of spare-time and money. I know what they did, because I was there. It is very sad if MMY do not appreciate what they did.
Ingegerd --- In [email protected], "markmeredith2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], gerbal88 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > measure. > > snip > > Maharishi often made it clear that he didn't like the hangers-on. > > Trouble was, he needed someone to help; hard-working as he was, he > > simply couldn't do it all. So the hangers-on eventually morphed into > > his rather loony organization which tries to shape things in its own > > warped image of how things should be. > > > > It must be very sad for Maharishi to have such vision and to have to > > depend upon such blindness. > > But it was the hangers-on in the 60s and 70s who gave MMY the > practical help he needed to start and spread the mov't. Not just the > practical common sense information needed to start an operation, but > eventually also the 7 steps method of teaching, the scientific > research, the competent local operation of so many centers in the 70s > which brought so many people and resources into the mov't. I'm amazed > at the extent and quality of support MMY had, esp in the 70s. > > It was MMY who personally took the mov't into hard sell of supernormal > abilities, the innumerable failed businesses - sidhalands, drilling > for oil in texas, fashion dresses, crumbling hotels galore, etc etc > and then the hard sell of the various branches of vedas, which once > again went well as long as Chopra was around, but is going nowhere as > long as MMY's hand picked fanatics are in charge, and now everything > under the sun in India, including used cars and fake currency. > > I agree with many other posts on this topic that MMY hit the jackpot > with effortless meditation using bij mantras, but most everything else > of value in the mov't over the years seems to me to have come from the > enormous support and talent he received from the west, and most of the > nuttiness and cultishness from him and his hand picked and cultivated > inner circle. 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/
