--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In essence, what MMY has done is hedge his bets. His organization IS > going to create the groups of 8,000 and 40,000 if at all possible, > but he's warning that there is no guarantee that this will be enough > to achieve permanent world peace --that more must be done. > > He's leaving the TMO an out if the Maharishi Effect doesn't work as > predicted, in other words.
You are welcome to believe this. Personally I don't. The "goal" of 8000 butt-bouncers could have been achieved decades ago if Maharishi had really wanted the ME theory put to the test. The money was *always* available to pay for such an experiment to be done. It wasn't done. We have annecdotal evidence that he even admitted to the Kaplans that he *didn't* want it done, that he *didn't* want it put to the test. So I'm unconvinced that the TMO -- either with MMY at its head or without him -- will ever actually pro- duce the number of butt-bouncers "needed" to put the ME theory to the test. The desire to NOT have it put to the test (and thus possibly have it proven untrue) will be stonger AFTER his death than it is now. I could be wrong about this, but everything I've seen in the larger world of spirituality and in human nature suggests that I'm not. Why on earth would people who want to keep believing in the basic infal- libility of a dead teacher want to put his theories to an actual test that might...just might...prove them untrue, and thus prove him fallible? The TBs who survive Maharishi will want (consciously or subconsciously) to do everything in their power to NOT put things to the test, because inwardly they don't want to ever have to deal with the possibility that they spent decades of their lives blindly follow- ing someone just as fallible as they are. Just my opinion, as always. Your mileage may vary... ------------------------ 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/
