I remember hearing, probably in a dome meeting, that
Maharishi once used a magnifying glass to closely
examine every person in a group photo. The photo was
from one of the big courses, like Utopia or Heaven on
Earth.
--- shempmcgurk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- 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?
>
>
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