--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
What specifically have his nephews done with the money that you are aware of? Documentation? > > > 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/
