A couple of points: 1) TM was a fad in the 70's and the organization was growing unsustainably fast. I had an email conversation with Peter McWilliams a few months before he died and he said he was warning MMY that the [then current] growth was unsustainable. Trying to reconcile how much TM cost when 35,000 people a month were learning TM in the early 70's with today's pricing without taking into account that the TM fad phase passed by about 1976 is rather unrealistic.
2) The David Lynch Foundation has taught several hundred thousand people TM in the past few years, and my impression is that the rate of teaching is accelerating. The price for the DLF is 1/5 what it is to the average person and the average person can get about a 60% scholarship from the DLF and local TM centers, if they ask nicely. 3) Which leads to another point: the TM organization, from what I have seen, would rather teach one person who continues the practice throughout their entire life, than 100 people who stop after 1 month. Setting the price as high s they have eliminates dabblers (unless they are ultra-wealthy) from even bothering to enquire if there's a way of lowering the price. L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> wrote: > > > > As MMY explained the decision to hike the price of TM through the roof: > > > > it is the elite of the world who set the trends and make the laws and "the > > rich don't shop at poor stores." > > > > Getting voluntary celebrity endorsements is a surefire way to get media > > attention, which is a form of free advertising. > > > > L > > But the mass of people, who could benefit from it, do not shop in these > stores, so even if they would like to have it, it is out of reach. They do > not live like the elite, however much they may admire them or want to be like > them. > > There are other ways to look at it. Some friends of mine learned TM in early > 1974. It was US$64. Inflation adjusted to the current US Consumer Price Index > (which sadly does not accurately measure inflation but it saves our bankrupt > government moola) the price would be US$315. > > If you measure the inflation adjusted cost using the way the United States > government measured inflation back in 1974, the current cost would be US$1195. > > You can learn mindfulness kinds of meditation for free or for considerably > less. >
