Fairfield is not necessarily representative of the Movement - when I spent two years there I had no idea what the people in India and Europe were doing except through the dubious filter of Bevan who would tell us Lord Marshy's will for the people of MIU - I still remember him telling us in a staff meeting to "lead a simple life, a pure life" - he never did define pure. -------------------------------------------- On Sat, 10/19/13, Share Long <[email protected]> wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality Courses To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 3:05 PM Michael, I think to have a full picture of the TMO these days, a person has to visit Fairfield for a few days, talk with people, attend a concert, stroll in the town square, etc. On Saturday, October 19, 2013 9:53 AM, Michael Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks Barry - I was just interested in the thing to have a full picture of the Movement. -------------------------------------------- On Sat, 10/19/13, TurquoiseB <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality Courses To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 1:07 PM --- In [email protected], wrote: > > Son you got it wrong, you are barking up the wrong tree of life. There never was an immortality course, it was an enlightenment course. It must have been a misnomer that you read on one of those neganaut internet blogs full of misimformation that try to disc TM. You already got an immortal soul you just need to wake up to It. Hence the Enlightenment course. > -Buck in the Dome > > ---In [email protected], [email protected] wrote: > > I have searched all over and can find no mention of the Immortality Courses once offered by the TMO - as an historical piece of info I would like to know what these were - if anyone knew of them, of what they promised and the cost of them I would appreciate it if you could post that info here. Especially anyone who actually took the course or courses. Buck may be right about this. There definitely *were* "Enlightenment Courses," held in the Netherlands, that promised enlightenment as a result of your one-month stay and one million dollar course fee. At one point Rick (I think) posted that for their million bucks, the course participants never even got to see Maharishi, except over 2-way TV. As for the promised results, well. someone posted here in the past that David Lynch attended one of them, so there you jolly well are, aren't you? If he's not enlightened, no one is. I may have conflated the notion of the "million dollar course" with tales of other latter-day TM courses I heard about through the grape- vine or on some Net forum, whose purpose was purported to be the attainment of physical immortality. I honestly don't remember where I heard these rumors, but they were accompanied by the line, "people I knew who attended these courses have since died." Presumably these people were Off The Program. I admit to being less interested in the details of the courses than the mindset of the people who paid for and took them. We *know* that there were TM TBs who paid a million dollars for a one-month course that promised them enlightenment. There *may have been* people who paid for TM courses that suggested or promised them physical immortality. Either way, that level of gullibility on the part of the participants overshadows for me any culpability on the part of those who offered the courses. As that great sage Paramahansa Trotakacharya Barnum is rumored to have once said, " The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it" and " Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public." One of his quotes would have been a great "tag line" for the Enlightenment Courses. He once was trying to clear the crowds out of one of the tents in his traveling circus/zoos/tent shows so other paying customers could enter, so he grabbed a megaphone and announced, "This way to see the egress." Everyone followed him. :-) As far as Buck's claims that people are trying to "disc TM," he may be right about that as well. http://www.covershut.com/cd_covers/Its-Kind-Of-A-Funny-Story-2010-Wide-Screen-Cd-Cover-50447.jpg
