Angela Mailander wrote: > I might not have time to elaborate too much this week since I've got a house > guest from China staying with me. But I'll do what I can. Also, it's a big > subject that can't be dealt with in a few emails. It definitely can't be > dismissed with a facile phrase like "the Nazis highjacked the New Age." I've > done long and serious scholarship and research on the topic. The New Age > (for lack of a better term) aspect of German fascism was swept under the rug > beginning with the Nuremberg war crimes trials, so this Egon guy probably > never heard of it. I would never have heard of it either if I hadn't been > meditating by some real fluke. Nazi Germany was crawling with all kinds of > gurus--not just Indian, but also Tibetan, Chinese and Japanese. But as soon > as the war was over in 45, they all vanished over night. I mean totally > vanished in one swell foop so radical that it must have been orchestrated > through a single source. The guy who taught me when I was six was a left over > who was > hiding out under a shepherd's cloak. > Go read my comment under the "But Then It Was Too Late" topic. ;-) > Whatever else meditation may be, it certainly is also a fabulous social > engineering tool. Consider: Maharishi took a bunch of freedom and democracy > loving hippies, and, in the space of twenty years, turned them into firm > believers in the divine right of kings, appointed by a superior priest caste, > naturally--one with the power, no doubt, to off unruly rulers. > > I've said the same thing here too. How MMY took many of the college age kids of the time who might have been the shakers and movers of the day and distracted them. A lot of us however dropped the movement over 20 years ago. In fact I thought things started getting weird when MMY mentioned "dignity" and his followers thought it meant selling silk shirts. Of course things back fired as some of the kids who would have been "shakers and movers" decided they wanted to be financially independent so they could spend more time around MMY. Instead they got so tied up with their businesses and making money they forgot about TM and MMY altogether. :)
Alan Watt (the very alive Canadian not Watts the 70's philosopher) talks a lot about this kind of social engineering and predictive programming. There are a lot of MP3s on his site about this. He also seems to feel TM was a conspiracy to create a "Christian like form of Hinduism." http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/index.html > There isn't a single article of faith that's current in the meditating > community in Fairfield that wasn't also current among the initiated in > Germany under Hitler. All the phrases we use here were familiar to me > beginning with "Established in Being, perform action." In that state, you do > not incur bad karma, even when the action involves medical experiments, > painful and often lethal, on other human beings. After all, they had chosen > that life; moreover, they were performing a service to help bring heaven on > earth for a thousand years. a Don't forget "a thousand points of light." This of course why people like me left the TMO long ago.
