--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 5/26/05 1:02:35 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > And how is it that we did not succeed??!!!! Why isn't TM as middle > class, natural, and extensively accepted as yoga, natural foods and > joggong? Do you sometimes feel that you woke up in the wrong > alternative universe? And in the right one, the world plan worked, TM > centers are as ubiquitous as starbucks, its common for most corporate > meetings and school lectures to begin with a group med to clear the > air and minds, and TM teachers make as much as airline pilots (a Jerry > Jarvis prediction -- taken as gospel by many) (back in the day that > airlines were flourishing and being a pilot was a status job). > > > > > > Follow the money... in another since. The higher the price went , the fewer > people got initiated. People looked to other ways to learn to meditate for > less money. Competition. If you had never transcended, and wanted to learn to > meditate ,they are all the same and why not go with the cheapest or newest on > the block. TMO got greedy and failed to flow with a fundamental economic > natural law, meeting the competition.
Although the price is certainly a consideration, I don't think it is the primary cause of the decline in initiations. The causes I believe are the following: 1) The way the Flying Technique was introduced. In a word: fraudulently. When you release photos to the world press of a TM flyer in the top-most position of the hopping parabola, people think you're trying to tell them that you levitate. We didn't, we don't, people know it, result: credibility down the drain. 2) MMY and TMO played with the scientific stuff: gold leaf on scientific charts books, publishing ONLY the positive studies, etc. 3) NLP. TM is not a philosophy nor a religion...and the organisation designed to promulgate the TM technique should reflect that tenet. Yet, by definition, a political party must take stands on issues such as abortion, gun control, foreign policy, etc...and when it does that it necessarily must adhere to a certain philosophy and set of beliefs. People can see through such inconsistencies and hypocracies and it impacts on our credibility. 4) watering down the message by engaing in selling honey and candy bars. And everything else beside the core message of TM: architecture, yagyas, vedic vibration, etc. The core message of TM is so important and the resources of the TMO so limited that that is all we should have had time and energy for. It's all so watered down now that it has gotten to the point that some TM literature -- such as the AyurVeda stuff -- refers to TM as one of the good ways to relax because relaxation is good for the health (I paraphrase here but that was the gist of it!) 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/
