--- In [email protected], "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?
************ Children need praise, and if they don't get enough of it, they'll leave the movement, like Chopra did. MMY has always recognized the need to lavish praise and attention on the industrial-age brats in the West who have gravitated to the TMO, and especially after Chopra left (despite MMY's calling him, among other things, the "Lord of Immortality"), MMY will express an interest in even the most trivial "accomplishments" of his staff. The good news is that the West no longer has any significance for the growth of the movement, a fact which MMY has underscored by raising fees to exclusionary levels and completely cutting off Britain. What has to happen now, now that a few candles have been lit in the West to reduce the shock of a Vedic India on the world, is for India to become restored to its Vedic status, and that is just a matter of time... 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/
