--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- "jyouells2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- "Ingegerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > > > > > > > > My advice to the independents is to keep alow profile > until > > > > > > after MMY dies and see if King Tony changes things a tad. > > > > > > > > > > Do you mean that MMY is a hindrance for teaching TM to > people? > > > > > > > > Well, duh. :-) > > > > > > > > Who has recently "decertified" all but a handful > > > > of his TM teachers and then raised the prices > > > > such that the leftover handful can't find anyone > > > > to teach? I think you'd have to be an absolute > > > > idiot to not view Maharishi as the biggest > > > > obstacle to people learning TM. > > > > > > > > But to think that "King Tony" is going to change > > > > anything is naive. The direction of the movement > > > > is set. TM is passé. > > > > > > Never thought of it that way, but that is the practical effect. > > > Control is more important than than the benefits of the > technique? > > > Or is it really all about the movement the dollars? > > > > The dollars do seem to be the motivating factor. > > Every new scheme requires more of them, and > > emphasizes the actual teaching of TM less. > > > > The original message of spiritually regenerating > > the world "from the bottom up" by teaching people > > to meditate has clearly been superceded by the > > message of "reconstructing" it "from the top down" > > via Sthapatya-Veda. > > > > We never know how long the "latest and greatest" > > Grand Scheme is going to last. > > > Prior to rebuilding the entire world via Vastu, there was Peace > Palace Grand Scheme: building several thousand Peace Palaces > throughout the world...at about $1 million a Peace Palace, that's > about $2-3 billion. > > I can't remember which came first, but around the time of the Vastu > Grand Scheme, there was the $600 billion Agro Grand Scheme. > > Between Agro and Vastu Grand Schemes there was perhaps a week or so. > > Between Peace Palace Grand Scheme and either Agro or Vastu Grand > Scheme (I can't remember which came first) there was at least a > year, no? > > Here's some more Grand Schemes off the top of my head: > > Malls of America Grand Scheme > > Tallest Building Grand Scheme > > VedaLand Grand Scheme > > Can anyone add to the list? > >
Maharishi International University Grand Scheme. Maharishi Vidya Mandir Grand Scheme. Maharishi's intent to make TM available all over the world Grand Scheme. Oh, did you only want examples of things you consider to be total failures, or do you consider the above to be total failures as well? ------------------------ 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/
