--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately I think you're right Unc. I'm sure the > intent is to try to make people think and act one way > but the reality of the schools is something quite > different. In other words, a con. It's really too bad. > This type of "con" mentality comes up time and time > again in the TMO. By a con mentality I mean an > attitude that what we, the TMO, want or desire should > not be delayed or prevented by any government > regulation, business ethic, etc.. For example,years > ago when I was on TSR a friend of mine was in the MIU > doctoral program in neuroscience. He was furious > because MIU had faked a class to meet the criteria of > a visiting accreditation team. The administration and > the faculty apparently had no problem with this at > all.
I certainly saw lots of examples of this at National. The only thing that counted was the *appearance* of things, not the reality. I saw TM leaders lying under oath in court precedings, and obviously not feeling that there was anything wrong with this. One example, during the NJ "is TM a religion" case, was when the prosecution issued a subpoena (sp?) for a certain audio tape that contained a clear refer- ence by Maharishi to TM being a religious practice. The Regional Offices were instructed to destroy their copies of this tape and we had to call all TM centers and tell them to destroy *their* copy while we waited on the phone for them to do it and confirm it to us. And then the representatives from National responded to the subpoena by swearing under oath that no such tape never existed. What this school thing looks like to me is that there are in fact, a few such schools, or at least there were long enough to take a few photos and plant a few articles in the press to make it look as if there were more. My bet is that this is a business fronted by Maharishi's relatives that, following the TMO model, managed to qualify for massive tax breaks or tax-exempt status by claiming it was a non-profit educational organization. Then at a certain point (I would guess from the copyright dates 2003), someone from the guvmint asked them to actually prove that they *were* a non-profit educational organ- ization, and they threw together this website as "proof." A few posed photos from the few real schools that were acually created, someone entering fake data into an Access database to make it look as if there were more such schools, and voila, the front organization gets to remain a front organ- ization, and gets to continue making its real money by buying and selling real estate, tax-free. And no one feels bad about it because it's just low-vibe non- meditators who are being taken in. 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/
