--- In [email protected], "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > Is a shame to see the Invincible courses come towards an > > end because the TM Rajas could not get effective numbers > > of meditators together. > > Rather than a shame, it seems more like stupidity. Why do > they not, on their own, have a yagya performed to get more > people into the domes? this would be a loose test of the > effectiveness of yagyas, and if effective, it would solve > their own difficulty with assembling their own technology, > bringing the numbers up to snuff. Then, according to the > theory, it should no longer be necessary to perform yagyas > to avert the dangers they themselves have engendered, as > the dome numbers would take care of that. > > Could be they do not believe their own hype.
I haven't said anything too terribly "TM controversial" in a while, so I'll wade into this one. :-) I think that -- either consciously or subconsciously -- Bevan and Hagelin and the Rajas have no more intention to *ever* "achieve the numbers" than Maharishi did. And for a very simple reason -- if you achieve the proper numbers and the expected result does not happen, you will have proved your own technology to be a sham. Can't take that chance. Maharishi could have "achieved the numbers" AT ANY MOMENT during his life. He *had* the money to do it. And early on he even had the willing followers to do it. But he never did, and I suspect that it's because of the reason I suggest above. He was not willing to put his theories to an actual test. Now that he's gone, there will be even more of a fervor in the Raja types to keep the ME from ever really being put to the test, because if they allowed that and it proved the ME wrong or ineffective, they would have (in their minds) contributed to besmirching the name of their dear departed guru. Not. Gonna. Happen. As for paying for a yagya to "achieve the numbers," that's a good idea but again, Not. Gonna. Happen. To do that would violate one of the highest Laws Of Nature: "Thou shalt never pay for anything yourself if you can con someone else into paying for it for you." :-)
