I think the biggest problem is that few young people turn to spiritual growth anymore. For the past few decades, young people who were destined to be seekers were mostly the kids of the first generation of seekers. The TMO would have done well to support the SIMS above all else, if the aim was to bring in more initiates.
--- shempmcgurk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- 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 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ 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/
