--- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you thought of addressing this particular issue to Maharishi, > by posing a question at the weekly news conference? > > Maharishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Maharishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
I have not, because 1) I somehow doubt that a question posed by someone who has been officially off the program for 25+ years is gonna get posed, and 2) I am unconvinced that Maharishi wants to actually *deal* with such ques- tions at this point. I am convinced (sadly) that what Maharishi is doing (possibly subconsciously) is providing the True Believers with an "easy out" that they can latch onto to explain why they and the TMO has had so little effect on the world and the world's consciousness after all this time and all this big talk. With TM as the focus, if not enough people learned it you had to take some of the responsibility for this on your own shoulders -- you just didn't present its benefits well enough. With the Siddhis, there is less of a feeling of failure, because they're a "tougher sell" -- most of the world is preprogrammed to believe that they can't possibly exist, so the failure is on the part of all those ignorant masses, not those in the TMO. The latest boondoggle is the *ultimate* rejection of responsibility for Not Having Done Enough. The problem isn't even with the ignorant masses; it's with the buildings they live in; nothing can really be done to enlighten the world until all these "bad" buildings are torn down and replaced with "good" buildings. It's a "solution" that can NEVER be achieved, and thus those who believe in it NEVER have to feel any sense of failure. The focus on the building project is, in my opinion, to provide the True Believers in the TMO with an EXCUSE for why their efforts all these years, and all the money they've contributed all these years, has gone to naught and created no appreciable change in the world. It's the world's fault, not theirs. > > > "The Christian resolve to find the world evil and ugly has > > > made the world evil and ugly." -Edgar Allen Poe > > > > Compare and contrast to the newest proclamations from > > the TMO. It states that the problem with the world is > > that it is (from a vastu point of view) evil and ugly. > > The only real suggestion given for how to get beyond > > this and realize one's infinite nature is to rebuild > > the evil and ugly world physically. > > > > It's such a step backwards in the thinking of the TM > > movement that it shocks even me. ------------------------ 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/
