--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 8/12/05 3:50 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> --I heard that Maharishi stopped coming to the United States, > >> because he felt it had become too dangerous here, and he didn't > >> want to be sacrificed in that way.(as he has done the martyer > >> thing in a past time, been there, done that); > >> In those days, the Pope had been shot, as well as Reagan.. and > >> the mood of the country had changed. > >> He just felt that the U.S. had become too violent and > >> fundementalist, and dangerous, which is quite true. > > > > With all due respect, this has been said by pretty > > much every spiritual charlatan in history running > > from the law. And their followers believed it when > > they said it, too. > > > > It's misdirection, and an obvious appeal to the > > elitism of the students -- "Ooooh...they're trying > > to kill our teacher...we must be *really* special > > to be able to be with such a teacher." > > Interesting to note that Amma received three death threats from TM folks the > first time she came here, but wasn't intimidated.
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