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________________________________ From: turquoiseb <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 12:40:04 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Day That TMers Became Officially Crazy --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall <thomas.pall@...> wrote: > > I worked on the Houston (Navasota, Grimes County) capital for > room and board. And yes, shared an unheated cabin. Barhroom > was the bushes outside. Yes, it gets cold in Texas during the > Winter. Maharishi was absolutely right. The movement belongs > to those who move large quantities of cash across national > borders, undetected. I never went to any of the more modern TM hovels. I used to teach a lot of residence courses at Soboba (I think the name was) in southern CA, and attended many courses at Cobb Mountain in northern CA. The former didn't really have much personality, but the latter did. It had been some kind of camp or retreat facility before the TMO acquired it, and I found it charming, with its old clapboard cottages and rustic camp-era dining/meeting hall. Plus, the fact that most everyone was in a separate cottage made it easier to fool around on ATR courses. :-) The worst facility experience I had, in retro- spect, was probably at Poland Springs, ME. I got to see the balance sheets for that one after the course was over. The TMO paid something like $15 per night per participant for the room, and was supposed to pay something like $10 per person per day for food. They charged us a great deal more than that for the rooms, and actually (according to the financial records for the course) spent less than $4 per person per day on food. Half of the fruit served to us at meals was rotten. In Europe most facilities were acceptable, because they were owned (and thus maintained) by someone other than the TMO. The minute they started buy- ing their own places, however, all concept of maintenance or improvement went in the toilet and they allowed the places to slide into dis- repair and in some cases public health hazard status. And they could do this because they knew that no one would ever complain; the course par- ticipants were too spaced out and guru-whipped to even *consider* complaining.
