I hadn't really considered that possibility. He did follow in the footsteps of other Indian Gurus who came to America with a similar message of making the world a better place.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote : Or, even more simply, he believed what he said when he said it. Barry, there's only one conclusion to come to, He LIED. MMY LIED, when he made these statements. Does that make you feel better, does it give you closure, or a trophy of some sort. Now, most people I know would say, he EXAGGERATED, he engaged in HYPERPOLE, he is laying out a grand vision of possibilities, and discount it appropriately. But if you feel it is a "gotcha" of the highest order, then great. And I guess every the same holds true for every man who told a woman he was romancing, that, "the stars shine brighter when I'm with you" I guess that's a lie too, and she should hold him to it. Just sayin' ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : BTW, for Steve: From: "steve.sundur@..." <steve.sundur@...> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2014 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Unstressing or Demons? I think Ann made a good point, that there seems to be a misconception of the part of Michael, at least, that the ME is capable of having such a transforming effect on the environment that conflicts will become non existent. It is in areas like this where I think he sometimes has a problem separating fantasy from reality, hence my comment along those lines. I find myself wondering whether you (and Ann, since this dumb idea seems to have come from her) missed all those Maharishi lectures in which he said *very explicitly* that TM and ME would have such an effect on the environment that if enough people did them conflicts would become impossible. That was the whole *basis* of his "Age Of Enlightement" and "Dawning of Sat Yuga" talks. Duh. Maharishi and the TMO *did* claim -- in many, many talks and press releases and sales spiels pitching "Invincibility" -- that sufficient numbers of TM/ME practitioners would generate such a field of positivity and invincibility around them that no crime would be *possible* within it. So what happened *on the campus of MUM* -- well within the boundaries of this of this all-powerful field of Woo, and with surely "sufficient numbers" given the percentage of students, teachers, people on courses, and others on campus practicing both TM and the ME -- that made Maharishi's predictions and proclamations go blooey, and ended in a murder? Seems to me you can't have it both ways. To claim publicly that the ME *will* solve all problems by creating a field of Woo...uh...I mean coherence...so powerful that crime cannot exist, and then to say, "Oooopsie...we didn't really mean *all* crime when we said 'all crime'" Sounds to me as if someone was practicing the "fingers crossed" mudra. :-)
