--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchy...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: <snip> > > The argument can certainly be made that the TMO > > shouldn't be a crusading, messianic organization, > > but that's how its founder saw it from the very > > beginning, and there isn't really anything that > > can be done about it now; it isn't going to change > > in that regard. > > I don't believe Maharishi thought of the TMO as a > crusading, messianic organization.
"Spiritually regenerate the whole world" is what I had in mind... > Certainly, these are loaded words meant to malign. Not by me. Nothing wrong with wanting to save the world. > But, no. In the early days, it was more like, he > had a bunch of unkempt hippies on TTC who needed > direction, structure, discipline and routine, if > he hoped to hone their ability to teach with any > requisite precision. Undoubtedly, discipline and > routine will evoke rigidity and extremism in > extremist personalities, (usually Fascists or > Communists) but so what. Organizations must > remain organized or disband. Indeed. <snip>
