Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Honest answers (was comments on Gable's editorial)

[Llundrub]

recently relieved of their duties, initiations are pretty much dead, enrollments at mum and other tmo institutions have been in decline for awhile -- and all this decline while the founder is still alive.  What will happen when the prime source of inspiration in the tmo is gone and it's left with bevan and the nephews to keep spirits up??   -------My point was that Jesus only had followers which were localized at first to his central area in the Mid east.  Maharishi however, already has spread to the far corners of the world. His growth due to modern communication and travel was exponentially faster and larger than that of Jesus. Moreover, in the Vedas Maharishi finds a tradition older than Judaism, and a religion which in many ways makes more sense and in many ways is more liberal than Judiasm, the base religion of Jesus.   Moreover in countries not really caring about Western values of Democracy and such TMO can be perceived in a much different way. Especially in such bumfuck backwards countries as Russia which has never had human rights.   I'm not saying that TMO will survive, but I think that if you think that it cannot survive and even grow then you're overlooking the basic irrational nature of humans and the ability for memes to spread like chicken pox or aids, regardless of any specific rational tenet for their existance.   I think that we here are very much like those looking at the threads of the cloth through a microscope because we are so very close to the inception of the religion. But in the future we will be forced to step back and see that the cloth was a whole item after all.    -------Maharishi's proclaimation that teachers have to be recertified is merely water under the bridge. It was a movement political expedient which was to grab those people still actively participating and to kick them in the butt to participate more.  An analogy is grabbing ones lazy, tired pot washer and telling them they're fired if they don't get back to work.   Now is the pot washer really fired?  Not really.  Maharishi's proclamation didn't make it everywhere, and in the future when the controlling few pundits rewrite the rules for the TMO, those with the huge tape libraries and means, then they will rewrite the Movement to suit the times, and their way of figuring that out will be based upon the donations. Yep, there it is. The donations will show what people think of the value of the Movement.   It's all my speculation.  But stranger things have happened.       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  Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.