--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > --- TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > snip > > > > > > > > > > > The problem with the modern TM movement is that > > > > it's trying to insist that to appreciate its > > > > company's products you have to revere the CEO > > > > as holy and its sales managers as kings. > > > > > > And the thing that cracks me up is then when it is to > > > the TMO's advantage, such as getting public funds, > > > etc., they pull out the "scientific technique card" > > > and then wonder why things don't go their way. The > > > recent history of Vedic City is a case in point. > > > > > > There is a serious disconnect in the TMO. Publically > > > claiming TM and the TM-sidhi program to be this > > > scientific technique validated by jillions of > > > scientific studies and then this whole bizarre social > > > structure with the Rajas and the cultish behaviors and > > > attitude. > > > > > > Back in the '70s I remember MMY saying on a tape (in reference to > > setting up TM): "I could have made it a religion"...well, somewhere > > along the way -- somewhere in between 1975 and today -- he DID make > > it a religion...and I'm not referring to TM but to the TMO. Anyone > > disagree? > > > > > Still a crippled religion if it is one.
I think it makes a pretty darned good religion...but I prefer the non-religion, non-philosophy approach circa 1975...THAT was the way to market this incredible technique, NOT the way it's been done since around 1978... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
