--- In [email protected], "Eustace" <emf...@...> wrote: > > Sorry for being dated, but I just came across this February Guardian article > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jan/27/david-lynch-meditation > > where it says: > > "Beloved of hippie celebrities everywhere since the 1960s, TM's expensive > teaching courses risked it being priced into oblivion until Lynch was > credited with persuading Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - to whom he became close in > 2003 after paying $1m to participate in the guru's four-week "Millionaire's > Enlightenment Course" - to radically reduce the TM learning fee so that more > younger people could learn the practice." > > I was unaware that David Lynch had persuaded Maharishi to "radically reduce > the TM learning fee". Actually, I first heard of the fee sales last January - > to $1500 until September for now. Does anybody have more information about > this? When did it start? And what fees are agreed upon by the David Lynch > Foundation and the movement for the scholarship initiations of students? >
Lynch reportedly told MMy that he wasn't getting many donors for his foundation because the price was too high, so MMY told him to talk to Hagelin about setting a lower price. The upshot is that schools, or large segments thereof, can learn TM for $600 a head. Lawson
