Ha! That's true - I stopped actively participating in the Movement after a 2 year stint working on staff at MIU (wonder if there are any statistics for how many people quit the Movement after a staff experience at a Movement facility)
So I wasn't totally aware of all the projects - oddly enough when I was still a Movement junky the very first time I had an odd feeling about it all was during the Taste of Utopia course in '83-'84 when Maharishi asked for some large amount of cash for some project. I remember feeling "Didn't he just ask for a bunch of money for some other project a year or so ago?" Writing this reminds me of a staff meeting we had with Bevan when he had just come back from Europe with M and was talking in glowing terms about some guy they had heard of who was loaded, as Bevan said "He is as rich as Croesus. And these are the kinds of people we need to get meditating. Because if he starts doing TM, he can give us his money and we can use his money to further the cause of bringing the world to enlightenment." I remember thinking what about his personal enlightenment? What about the benefits to the rich guy? You only want him for his money?" but as I was not yet ready to leave MIU I kept that though to myself. --- In [email protected], nablusoss1008 <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "mjackson74" <mjackson74@> wrote: > > > > Does anyone have any idea of how many projects the Movement and Maharishi > > solicited funds for which subsequently were never built or completed? > > A lot less than those realized. >
