I remember the first tape recall that you mention, in the mid-1970's, prior to the release of the boxed tape of Humboldt lectures. Is that right that the tapes were actually destroyed? If so that is gross. Interestingly, it would make the contents of the mp3 recordings which are now circulating via www.spirualregeneration.org news even to people at TMO HQ, no wonder they are popular.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "guyfawkes91" <guyfawkes91@> > wrote: > > > > It could be that someone might have sufficient intelligence > > to realize that the good bits of Maharishi's message can only > > be saved from being dragged down with the collapse of Vlodrop's > > authority by copying the tape library as widely as possible. > > It could be that the extremist faction will do everything in > > their power to stop that happening, even unto burning the > > master tapes. People do go mad you know. > > Just for the record, this has already happened > many times, but with Maharishi's approval, and > at his direction. > > In the Western Regional Office, I was in charge > of the tapes to be sent out to centers for resi- > dence courses and advanced lectures. Periodically, > we would get a message from International Staff > that one of them was being "recalled." When that > happened, we had to call all the centers and try > to get them to send us any copies they had of > these tapes, even if they had purchased them and > not borrowed them from us. We were told to promise > them that the tapes would be replaced with a new > one in time. (Suffice it to say that never happened.) > > When all the copies of the tapes were sent back > to Switzerland, I have it on good authority (the > Regional Coordinator I worked for watching it > happen) that the master tapes were destroyed. > > The thing they were trying to perform "revisionist > history" on at the time fell into two categories. > The first was tapes on which Maharishi said some- > thing that could be construed to suggest that TM > was a religion. (The court cases were still going > on at this time and they didn't want any of these > tapes subpoenaed.) > > The second, interestingly enough given recent > threads on FFL, was any tapes on which Maharishi > promised enlightenment as a result of doing TM, > and within a fixed, promised period of time. > After the "5-8 year" period had clearly expired > with no one being enlightened, Maharishi's and > the TMO's first impulse was to make it appear as > if the "5-8 year" claim was never made. > > I heard that a similar "recall" was made of tapes > distributed during the early days of the TM-siddhi > program (during and prior to the first few courses) > that promised explicitly that people would learn > to levitate. I was on my TM-siddhi course at the > time, however, and didn't see this one first-hand. > The others I did. > > This is just presented as history, to show that > your scenario is not unlikely in the least. The > precedent for it was set by Maharishi himself > during his lifetime. >
