--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I think you're right on. I've already watched the rewriting of history take place several times in the TMO, and I left in 1978 or so. Some legal case would come up, and we in the Regional Office would be asked ("asked" is very much a euphemism here...more like the demand would come down from International) to recall all of a certain set of audio or video tapes. Those tapes would then disappear, never to be seen or heard again. After a while the people in the individual TM centers got hip to what was happening and, when we would call and ask for the tapes back, they'd say they'd lost them. None of the many failed predictions will be recorded, only the handful that worked out anything like what he predicted. None of the icky stuff that's happened along the way like covered-up suicides is going to be recorded or remembered, only stuff about how Maharishi could personally levitate and disappear and walk on yogurt and stuff like that. You all remember seeing that stuff, right? :-) Mark my words...within five years after the man dies, you will *have* to remember that stuff to be welcome around the people who will take over the TMO after him. It'll take 20 years or so for the virgin birth myths to take hold, but the miracle stories will start right away. Unc 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/