There is no reason that anyone should be surprised about this. The WHOLE THING -- meaning "Maharishi's teaching" and the promise of enlightenment -- has been a con since Day One. The only reason it "works" is that people who bought into it early are so ashamed to admit that they were conned that they keep perpetuating their belief, and thus the whole stack of cards.
If I'm wrong about this, please show me one -- count them, one -- press statement or announcement from the TMO saying, "This (insert photo and name of shill here) is a fully enlightened being, and he got that way by practicing the TM and/or TM-Sidhi programs." It's never happened, and it never will. The same way that they'll never "achieve the numbers" to "prove" the ME. For the believers, it's the eternal carrot on a string, pursued by the faithful, who are more committed to the "will to believe" than the "wish to find out." For the onlookers, there's not even a carrot. It's the promise of a carrot, and from their point of view the True Believers are furiously chasing a stick with a string tied to it, and nothing at the end of the string. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: > > It wouldn't surprise me, they were pretty good at manipulating the facts to suit the moment. I remember a Reuters article which was taken up by the BBC on how the raam should be avoided by investors as it is a totally unsupported currency and only accepted in exchange for lentils at TM centres. > > The press officer edited the Reuters release so it looked like the financial world was hailing the raam as the greatest thing ever and put the story in the UK's TM News magazine. I was shocked at how easily peoples quotes were manipulated and told him that the BBC would sue us out of existence if they found out but only a few people read it anyway so it doesn't really matter. I stopped believing TMO quotes by supposedly disinterested third parties. > > The whole redevelopment thing was rubbish anyway, printing money to give people doesn't work as it has to be exchanged for something real at some point. > > I did have a 10 raam note though but the wife threw it away because she thought it wasn't real money! > > I stopped believing TMO quotes by supposedly disinterested third parties after that. I had a list of quotes by scientists in my office that I was to use on press releases to give them a bit of weight. Would love to have that list and recheck it and the original sources. > > > > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@ wrote: > > I seem to recall that when Marshy and Company first rolled out the raam and they were trying to get people to buy it, some minister of the global whatever claimed that they had a bunch of gold to back it up, and when they were questioned on that they admitted that was not so, but then claimed India was backing the raam with its gold which turned out not to be true either. > > Am I remembering correctly, or was that an opium dream I had? >
