On the other hand, it may be exactly as I have said: MMY is creating an extremely hardcore group of believers that he can hand over to King Tony when he dies. In other words, he's precipitated the inevitable post-MMY conflict within the TMO *before* he departs so that King Tony won't have to deal with it the first day on the job.
--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Aug 17, 2005, at 7:25 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > > > In other words, its the ultimate busy-work for the TMO: he's just > > > assigned them an impossible task that will keep the organization > > > (assuming anyone, in the long run, embraces the goal that has been > > > set) busy for the next few hundreds or thousands of years. > > > > Well Lawson, any group that is to survive will have to attract young > > members. In the movement pictures I see people posting here it's all > > the same ole students still hanging around. The only youngsters are > > these peoples kids and grand kids. Sure there are a few, but the TMO > > will be very lucky if it survives another 10 years let alone another > > 100! > > I'd say 20 years, until the first generation dies > off. And then maybe another 10 years while the next > generation -- the ones indoctrinated into TM dogma > in schools -- find that there is nothing really to > be part of any more. Did you see any young people > in the photos from Guru Purnima in Vlodrop? > > But you do put your finger on the real issue. In > my opinion, an evangelistic spiritual organization > has lost its "viability" the moment it begins to > focus more on its existing members than it does on > attracting new members. For the TMO, I suspect > that happened about the time of the Yawning of the > Age of Enlightenment. > > At that point (or around that point), the fees were > raised for basic instruction in TM, with the result > that very few new people were starting. As a result, > more and more courses and "advanced programs" for > existing teachers and existing TMers had to be > invented, to keep the incoming revenue stream flow- > ing, and to keep the members convinced that some- > thing worth being part of still existed. > > At this point, almost no new members are being > attracted, and the *entire* focus of the movement > seems to be on creating myths and "grand projects" > to keep the few remaining members on board, by > pandering to their sense of self importance. They > are being told that the entire fate of the world > depends on them. And they'll be told that until > Maharishi dies, and then they'll tell each other > that after he dies, and then they'll all die. > > IMO, the TM movement will pretty much die with them. > > And it didn't have to be like that. If the organ- > ization had simply maintained its focus as a provider > of a simple, effective, and accessible (in terms of > cost) technique of meditation, it could have gone > on for a long, long time. But instead it has system- > atically driven the people who believed in that goal > *out* of the organization. Sad, when you think > about it... ------------------------ 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/
