I wasn't clear enough, sorry.  I disagree that M has always or
even usually given a *it will get worse before it gets better*
warning prior to announcing the AoE (or variations of that
theme).  But I agree he has sometimes said such things.

--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "Cliff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > I disagree, Judy.
> 
> You disagree that I remember hearing it would get
> worse before it got better??
> 
>   Maharishi has made innumerable announcements, 
> > starting with the Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment in January 1975
> > where he explicitly stated that the end of suffering and ignorance 
> > had arrived, and it was only *up* from here.  
> > 
> > There was no mention that some mass suffering or long delays would
> > have to be endured prior to the AoE taking hold.
> 
> I can't account for why you never heard what I
> heard.
> 
> Regardless, it seems to me it would make more
> sense as a *rationalization*.
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Makes it clear that all those earlier announcements were either 
> wishful
> > thnking, marketing PR, just plain wrong, or some combination of the
> > three.  I don't think he was outright lying, which would be the 
> fourth
> > possibility.
> > 
> > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > > --- In [email protected], "Brahman" 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > > wrote:
> > > > > Bob Brigante wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > ...MMY correctly identifies the "luck" (bad karma) of the 
> world 
> > > > > as being to blame, because if the world were not in such 
> darkness, 
> > > > > TM could be promoted quickly...
> > > > 
> > > > bob, i dont disagree with you here, but i wonder how is it that
> > > > the world seems darker and darker now, such that maharishi
> > > > feels like lamenting and hiding behind this "discouraged" logic.
> > > > 
> > > > what ever happened to what we were told for so long, that
> > > > the collective consciousnesss of the world was steadily and
> > > > permanently being purified...by each program, even by each hop?
> > > > 
> > > > it is starting to smell like: hmm, none of that was ever true...
> > > 
> > > What I remember hearing is that things would get
> > > a lot worse before they'd get better (mass
> > > unstressing as a result of purification of the
> > > collective consciousness).
> > > 
> > > What puzzles me is why he doesn't cite *that* logic
> > > as something to "hide" behind.




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