--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip> If I sometimes express disappointment with Maharishi and
> the TM organization, that's why.  They had it within 
> their grasp to make this simple knowledge available to
> millions and millions of everyday people and they didn't.  
> They went in the other direction and priced it for an 
> elite.  An elite that's now too doped up on Valium and
> Prozac to recognize the worth of meditation if they
> stumbled across it.  
> 
> Unc

I don't know. I remember when TM was a lot bigger and people were 
still considerably alienated by the whole 'mini-Hinduism' aspect of 
it. There doesn't appear to be a way to package it without preserving 
its purity, which means the ceremony with Guru Dev. There appears to 
be a big barrier there with regard to western thinking, that would be 
difficult to overcome. 

I am not negating mistakes that have been made in possibly making it 
more available, just making the point that even if the marketing and 
availability of 'the product' had been flawless, significant 
opposition would've been encountered once people were exposed to the 
eastern aspects of the practice. 




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