--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Back to Maharishi and his effects: I'm not ready to write > > > off all that he taught and predicted. My beef with him > > > has more to do with his administration than his knowledge. > > > He cultivated a True Believer culture which makes all > > > pronouncements suspect. But being suspect doesn't > > > make them wrong. It merely means they require further > > > examination. > > > > I have not written off all he taught, but I have > > written off almost all he's predicted. As a seer, > > he's got the psychic powers of the Wizard of Oz. > > Heh. He predicted TM centers in every city in the world, as a for > instance. Not to mention computers in every home, according to a TM > teacher reporting on a lecture from the 60's.
Neither of which has ever happened. Are you sure you took that adderal (whatever one is)? :-) > Meditation of some form or another has gained acceptability > throughout the world. Do you think that that wasn't due, in major > part, to his activities? Different issue, answered in another post today. It has nothing to do with prophecy. I'm not saying he didn't contribute, and greatly, to the world's awareness of meditation, just that I think he's a pretty lousy prophet. Unc 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/
