--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If this split has happened as it was related to us, this is really, > really huge.
Huge, schmuge. This is just one more petty squabble among people who lost their relevance to anything in the real world decades ago. It's a bunch of people who are legends only in their own minds quibbling over who is the biggest legend. NO ONE outside of those who still identify with the TM movement GIVES A SHIT. They'll look at this petty squabbling and shake their heads and write off the squabblers the same way they did when similar squabbling erupted among the Mukta- ananda legends-in-their-own-minds and the Chogyam Trungpa legends-in-their-own-minds and the Yoga- nanda legends-in-their-own-minds and even the SBS legends-in-their-own-minds. It's ALWAYS the same petty squabbling. Doncha GET it? And, in every case, it always reveals the power- lessness and pettiness of the "men behind the curtain," the ones who believe that they are legendary figures in some greater-than-life saga unfolding around them. These squabbles are ALWAYS based on the same thing: self importance. It doesn't matter whether the "measure" of self importance is having one's hand on the purse strings, or on having more "shakti" or "personal power" or being "more enlightened" than the other legends-in- their-own-minds. It doesn't matter who the wannabee legends are or who the group is. It's always the same soap opera, just with different actors playing the roles. WHO CARES? The TM movement died decades ago as far as the world is concerned. There are probably not more than 100 people on the planet who are not part of it (or were part of it at one point in their lives) who even know that this "huge" power struggle is taking place, or who would give a shit if they did. There is NOTHING about the TM movement that is of interest to any of the other billions of people on the planet, and it's looking as if there never will be ever again. The TM movement has all but abandoned teaching TM, preferring to "preach to the choir" and get its money from the "already converted." They display a poverty of imagination that staggers the mind -- with billions of dollars and an international organization at their disposal, the best idea they can come up with to help the world is to...uh...erect big penises with the words "Maharishi Tower Of Invincibility" written on them. How self important and pathetic is THAT? The TM movement is OVER, toast. It's pushin' up daisies. It's bleedin' demised. IT IS AN EX MOVEMENT. The only reason it still appears to be on its perch is that it's been nailed there as a result of the paralyzing hubris of its own mythical self importance. This isn't "huge." It's just the petty, embarrassing public rotting of the already-dead corpse of a minor spiritual movement that won't even be remembered in 20 years. Get over it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If this split has happened as it was related to us, this is really, > really huge. > > Indeed, I would venture to say it is more huge than Maharishi's > death; his passing had to happen and we all, in our own ways, knew > it was coming, planned for it as best we could, and adjusted > accordingly. > > But this will be yet another nail in the coffin of an already dying > Movement. > > Here are but some of the implications: > > 1) What happens to the pundits in Fairfield? The Pundit Project > has been a key "happening" in the Movement for the past 5 years or > so. Girish and family hold the leases on these semi-slaves. So > this will be a big disrupt right there. > > 2) Girish is Maharishi's family. If there is a split, how will > this affect, psychologically, the troops in the West? We are > supposed to be above these sorts of things and a split will > confuse, demoralize, and depress many TBers. Can't have that. > > 3) Moolah. How much of the Movement's fortunes are held by and > controlled by the Indians? Will there be court battles to get the > money? This won't be pretty from a publicity point of view. > > 4) How many in the East (ie., India) will side with the Family? > More importantly, will any in the West? You know, one juicy rumour > that is BOUND to start here in the West and which, of course, you > will find fertile ground for it to fester is that Girish -- who > looks like his uncle and aspires to BE his uncle -- is actually > Maharishi incarnate. Isn't there a sidhi for taking over another's > body? You can bet that there will be some who side with Girish > that will start THAT rumour! > > 5) What will happen to Fairfield? If there is a split of this > magnitude, it could very well weaken the Movement to the degree > that MIU dissolves and most everyone moves away from Fairfield. > Good time to sell the casa, Rick. > > 6) And, of course, the most important question of all: what will > happen to the plans for Donovan Invincible University?
