on 5/21/05 1:30 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> there seems to be an let's-start-an- >> island-nation fascination with TMers, but it's just impractical and >> unnecessary anyway... > > Actually, the island fantasy is right in line with the > "Vedic society" fantasy. Both are RETRO, meaning that > they are based on trying to artificially create a world > that resembles the way one *thinks* the world was like > at sometime in the past. With islands, one hearkens > back to the fantasies of discovering a new world, free > and pure and waiting for the faithful, like paradise. > With the Vedic society fantasy, it's the same thing, > taking a set of myths and believing that there was, at > one point, a time that was unlike Now, a time where > "everything was perfect and nothing hurt."
Maharishi has tried to do the island thing several times. There was an island off the coast of Brazil, the island of Rota, and now this. He has also tried to set up movement-controlled enclaves within sovereign mainland nations, such as Costa Rica. I'm sure Bob B. can provide links. 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/
