Responses interleaved below. > > > Patrick Gillam wrote:
> > > I still don't understand how Sat Yuga could have > > > dawned in the first place; I thought its coming > > > depended on superradiance numbers, pundit > > > thresholds and other contributors to a rising > > > collective consciousness -- thresholds we had > > > not yet met Robert Gimbel wrote: > > The original reason that Maharishi, had given about 8 weeks ago, > concerning what he felt was a "rising coherence" in the world, a > softness, which he percieved, that would cause certain more positive > things to happen in the world, as has been reported; Maharishi says a lot of things; that the world is going to hell; that the awakening of the Ved is irreversible; that we must rush outside with our sticks to help God hold the mountain over the village; that God needs no help from us. As people here have pointed out, MMY contradicts himself a lot. Also, he's wrong a lot. As a seer, he predicted all good things to be bubbling by the spring of 2004, I believe it was. That date came and went without any noticeable uptick in positivity that I could discern. In addition to MMY's predictions as a seer, the organization announces jyotish predictions for world events. But in neither Maharishi's predictions or those of the jyotishes do I recall anyone saying that July of 2005 would mark the arrival of a new yuga. On the contrary -- and correct me if I'm imagining this -- rising world consciousness, according to MMY, depended on superradiance groups and the like. Apparently he abandoned that technology and that condition for rising world consciousness. > also, he said > that there would be a greater intolerance for hypocrisy and that the > media would be prodding more deeply into the political > misinformation machine, which has also been happening, and will > continue to incease. I would argue that the mainstream media's laxity toward political misinformation has been an anomaly that is ending, not that it's rising to new levels. Normally, digging into the story behind the story is a journalist's job. And being used as a tool of politicians is an occupational hazard that has clipped a some journalists in the past few years. I'm thinking of the NY Times' Judith Miller, for example, whose WMD reporting proved erroneous. > Many other people sesitive to these issues have been saying the same > thing recently; > That world consciousness is rising, quite remarkably at this > juncture, and that this is increasing in intensity. Not only have othe people been saying this "recently," which I would define as being in the last few years, but it's been a theme for a century. Steiner was talking about it when he was active in the early part of the the 20th Century. Maharishi's announcement of the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment carried weight for me partly because so many others had predicted it. But here's my point: MMY made the dawn dependent on things *we* did as TMers -- a condition that many have questioned all along. And lo, it turns out the A of E is here *without* TMers doing all the special accomplishments MMY demanded of us, such as 7,000 TM-Sidhas in one place, or 500 pundits doing rudrabishek ceremonies. Or at least, MMY *says* sat yuga is here. - Patrick Gillam 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/
