Seems to be three paths Maharishi made available to us: madness or death or enlightenment. Is life any different?
--- In [email protected], gerbal88 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TM is a spiritual Enron - there's a good turn of phrase! > People and pedestals. He never got the feedback that an honest > business man gets? I just don't know, he's cutting everyone loose ? I > can't figure it. > > JohnY > --------------------------- > > Spiritual Enron is an excellent turn of phrase. > > This quite nicely sums up everything since 1967 (when Maharishi is > said to have declared his mission a failure and that he was retiring > into silence). The Beatles, of course, scotched that quickly enough. > I am sure he had several plan B's, anyway. > > His fame as a result of association with the rich and famous Beatles > gave him carte blanche to rather more vigourously do as he damn well > pleased. > > But note how he first trained massive numbers of teachers. Then he > sold them all his schemes. I think that that makes Donald Trump look > like a watch salesman on a street corner! > > Many of us watched the women follow him out of the lecture hall late > at night, but we were too stoned on rounding to put two and two > together. > > Later, when others put it together for us, well, y'gotta give the old > nutter credit, he could pull the polyester over the best eyes! What a > magician. > > He gave us one thing: returning to the foundation of meditation as > effortlessly as the experience of thought. > > I am grateful for that. It has made my much more worthwhile spiritual > pursuits much more satisfying, much more rewarding and productive. > > The rest was all smoke, mirrors and just plain 'spiritual enron'. Now > he has said that teachers teaching outside his looney organization > can, in effect, do as they please. Those who want re- indoctrination, > oops, re-certification can pay through the nose and experience TMO > hell into the bargain. > > As someone at alt.meditation.transcendental opined, this will give > King Tony (what a laugh) a tight little coterie of brain-dead lackies > to start his new kingdom with. > > Maharishi is a laugh-riot, right to the end and polyester by the mile. > > Tony and his zombies will slowly deteriorate into oblivion. The > remaining teachers will probably propagate their own mythos about TM, > Maharishi and the dark ages they survived to once again bring forth > the one and only thing Maharishi ever had: as easily as. > > The wait cannot be long. We will simiply see what we sill see. There > will always be those who put their spin upon it and others who deny > they see anything at all. When was it ever any different? > > G 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/
