--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 5/24/05 8:24 PM, anonymousff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > COMMENT > > Right from the beginning days of the movement, it > > was fascinating to watch how some (not by any means > > ALL of them) of the governors > > in charge of running centres seemed to have no ability > > or confidence in making decisions of their > > own. Every minute decision had to be verified with > > Maharishi. This constant "running to the Master" > > must surely have convinced Maharishi that we truly are > > a very weak minded bunch. > > Maharishi required this in most cases. For example, one time in Arosa, > Switzerland Maharishi had assigned me the project of correlating the > constitutions of the world's nations with the scientific research on TM. He > had also said my mother could come to Switzerland. So the day my mother's > plane was to arrive, I planned to go early and visit the Zurich library to > photocopy the constitutions. The finance lady wouldn't give me money for the > photocopying unless Maharishi approved it and my trip. So I asked him and he > did. Anyway, that's the level of detail he was always involved in.
On my 6-month course in '77 in St. Moritz, we took the usual course photo which as a matter of course was sent on to International. One of the course participants was one Michael Yankaus. I am not sure whether he did this for a living or if it was a hobby but Michael was a calligrapher as well as an artistic designer of sorts (there may be an actual professional name for what he does but I don't know what it's called). Anyway what Michael did with the group photo was quite amazing: he traced all the figures of the photo, numbered them and did a "legend" in which he put the names and countries of each person beside their respective numbers. And all of this was put in a neat frame along with the photo which was sent to International. It really was quite beautiful and impressive. Well, once MMY saw it he thought it was the most amazing thing in the world...this was all related back to us by I believe Bevan who was our course co-ordinator (and, I should note, Bevan was a good- looking svelt 145 lbs. at this time)...Anyway, the upshot was that MMY spent, literally, hours designing both a broshure and a protocol for how all courses should take group photos AND to do it in the way that Yankaus had done. We were told that it would be official Movement policy. Of course, like a teenager who gets his fist electric guitar with all the knobs and buttons on it and plays with it for the first three days and then never goes back to it ever again, we never heard more about group photos and the new protocol ever again. What struck me was how MMY got caught up in something so insignificant and mundane as a group photo and the way it was supposed to be framed and the hours spent on it. I just couldn't understand it. If, as the Movement and MMY professed, that we were out to bring this important technology of TM to the world, how could the leader and head of such an organisation find the time to put his attention on such minutae? 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/
