the reduction in fee that the article is talking about is the for the David Lynch projects where the fee is a fraction of what it is otherwise. The fees for individual instruction are only slightly lowered.
$--- 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? > > I didn't know about David Lynch being in the Millionaire's Enlightenment > Course either. That explains a few things. So that's how Lynch managed to > represent the meditators at the top circles of the movement, where normally > you have to be a governor or more to participate. It's nice to know that > there is someone representing the meditators' point of view up there. > > As for "TM's expensive teaching courses risked it being priced into oblivion" > it was clear. It is not surprising what John Hagelin in his recent email > writes: > > "The number of adults learning the Transcendental Meditation® technique this > year has almost tripled â" and this month more people learned than in any > month in the past 15 years!" > > What *is* surprising is that he goes on to say that: > > "The new TM.org website, the national media from our April Change Begins > Within Benefit Concert with Paul McCartney and friends, and our reduced > course fees have produced a sharp rise of interest." > > The new TM.org website! What was wrong with the old one in the first place? > Whom is he trying to fool? I would bet that the new website played nil role > in the sharp rise of interest. And the Concert without the reduced fees would > have produced much less impressive results in initiation numbers. > > emf >
