--- In [email protected], guyfawkes91 <no_re...@...> wrote: > > > > One contingent is contending to take the proceeds, buy prime land cheaper > > in South America through the TMo down there, farm it 'organically' with > > cheap labor as an enlightened movement business supporting the TMo > > > Why does the TMO need constant support from businesses? It has a good > meditation technique and teachers who have left the movement have > demonstrated that it's possible to build a viable business on the basis of a > valued service. There should be no need for endless begging for money. The > TMO has in effect become a fund raising and property development business > with a small sideline in spiritual development and in time the small sideline > will die out. >
Teaching Meditation, Credulous Donors, Vanity Projects & the 'Nut Jobs in Crowns'. Yes, goes back to your combined critique about credulous donors, vanity projects and nut jobs in crowns (robes too). Sucking money out of credulous donors evidently was a type of viable business model that Maharishi could pull off. Obviously is different going on now with the demise of Maharishi and things will take different controls since Maharishi's. Seems viable assets they got could be 1) TM & 2)Consciousness-based education (the schools). Some health products, The Raj, some publishing (all related), and then whatever real assets left they have found. Most everything left over like that downtown Manhattan building are those kind of assets that cost money or time to keep and not necessarily in their line of business' hence in discovery they're now liking to sell. The vanity assets that are not really in the core business but become distractions that drag on the core it seems are on the block. Either wasting money, time of the remaining core business or of (credulous) donor supporters. Then as a category there are those other ethereal meditation-programming 'assets' like Purusha, MD, & pundits too requiring budgets to run, costing cash to keep up, yet also generate funds from credulous well-wishing supporters. These are defining in their way that run along with the other meditation assets. Special in their way with the meditation business and with credulous supporters. These assets regardless, their 2010 'business' model hinges a lot on the management of nut jobs in crowns balancing meditation, credulous donors, & vanity projects,. Is interesting if for no other reason that they have effects on a lot of people still. Anybody seen a 2009 balance sheet and income statement for any of the TM entities? Would they have the courage to publish them? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/236703
