--- In [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> , "sparaig" <lengli...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> , "Eustace" <emf202@> 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 <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.>>
I didn't know that. That's cool. Now Vaj and Turq will have to drone on about something else. Vaj probably charges much more for his New age meditation courses, that simply serve to damage people's brains. OffWorld > > > Lawson >
