--- 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
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