--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- 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)? :-)
There were TM centers (or at least a phone number) in almost every major city in the world outside the USSR at one point. The organization wasn't sustainable at that level, but at least there was a moment when his "prophecy" was valid. And computers are available in virtually every home in the world that has electricity. Most computers don't have keyboards, you know. > > > 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/
