Comments interleaved below, partly to add a thought or two but mainly to reinforce some good posts by other people.
Kirk wrote: > > The Maharishi Effect is simply a statement from the > New Testament and is not new to Maharishi: > > Matthew 18:19-20 > > 19"Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. 20For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them." Seems to me I've run across parallel statements in other sources, like maybe in Conversations with God. I'd need to check. But regardless of sources and their numbers, the existence of a citation such as the one above inclines me, reformed True Believer that I am, to hold out hope for the truth of the Maharishi Effect. What's the parallel theory in Scientology, I wonder? Hey, let's include all the whacky cults in this dream. Parallel thread: how much do dreams of changing the world create cults, and how much do cults rely on mythologies of world transformation? Unc wrote, here and below: > > If Maharishi *really* believed that getting a certain > number of butt-bouncers together would create a veri- > fiable period of world peace, he could have done it > long ago. His organization has the money. It has > *always* had the money. His policy has always been to pour money into capital improvements, not operations. "Books and buildings." Like Andrew Carnegie, who'd build the libraries but expected communities to stock them with books and raise operating funds. At the time it struck me as a good policy. But in retrospect, I'm with you -- a large-scale, intermediate-term demonstration would have been good. Also, given that policy of money-for-capital-improvements only, it would have been good to keep funds out of the hands of his nephews. > The trend is clear. There has never been a large-scale > attempt to prove the ME true Well, excepting the Taste of Utopia course in Fairfield in '83 -- an event I found quite persuasive. > the ME? Give me a break. It's a fund-raising > device, nothing more. Always has been, always will be. Maharishi's stated goal from the outset has been the spiritual regeneration of the world. When it looked as if TM would be adequate to effecting that transformation, that's all he promoted. When its popularity started to taper off, he branched out to this other stuff. >From where I sit, I can't tell that his motives for introducing sidhis and all the rest are purely mercenary. The maddening thing is, his actions can be explained by his originally stated intentions to change the world. Idealist that I am, I'm still willing to go along with that explanation. - Patrick Gillam 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/
