I didn't say the people pay anything, I said the Lynch hucksters are always
begging for donations - that money goes somewhere
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On Fri, 4/18/14, lengli...@cox.net <lengli...@cox.net> wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why does TM seem to focus on losers?
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, April 18, 2014, 2:03 PM
The people who learn TM via the David Lynch
Foundation don't pay anything.
People who receive food from the Red Cross
don't pay for that food, but the people who donate money
to the Red Cross did. You're picking a nit that only
exists in your own mind.
TM teachers get compensated for their time
teaching TM, whether they teach through a TM center, or
through the DLF. The national TM organization gets a cut of
the money as well, though it isn't that much in the case
of students. Currently, TM instruction costs $360 for school
age kids, including full-time undergrad and grad students in
college. A single TM teacher is responsible for teaching 300
students at a Quiet Time school, at least as far as
compensation goes, though details of how local TM centers
and/or local TM teachers are involved in the process are
unclear to me (probably because they wing it depending on
who is available when).
If you look at the Maharishi Foundation, Inc Form
990 for 2012, when teaching students, TM teachers got
2/3 of the fee while the TM organization got 1/3. This works
out to nearly $300/student. The 990 form for 2013 isn't
available online yet, but they TMO is supposed to be so
flush with cash this past year that they were able to drop
the fees substantially and still pay all their bills. With
the new fee schedule for 2014, I'm guessing that TM
teachers will still get about $300/student while the TM
organization will only get $60.
L
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...>
wrote :
Incorrect Lawson -
David Lynch doesn't offer shit for free. Why do you
think he is ALWAYS begging for "donations" to FUND
the programs? The TMO ALWAYS gets paid, no matter what.
EVERYTHING they do is a scam to make money so they can live
big.
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On Fri, 4/18/14, LEnglish5@... <LEnglish5@...>
wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why does TM seem to focus on
losers?
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, April 18, 2014, 11:10 AM
The David Lynch Foundation offers TM instruction
for free to people in "at risk" groups, but the
$2500 price tag was originally set by Maharishi to entice
wealthy people and only wealthy people to learn TM.
Weren't you complaining about how insanely high that
price tag was?
Seems to me that no matter how TM is marketed and
for what price and for whichever group of people -the
homeless, war refugees, students in El Barrio watching
their
cousins kill their cousins, or world famous actors and
actresses, CEOs worth as much as small countries, etc.-
you'll find a reason to kvetch.
It's just an idea. YMMV.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
<turquoiseb@...>
wrote :
One of the things I've noticed over the years is
how many long-term TMers say things like, "I'd be
dead if it weren't for TM," or "TM saved my
life," or "TM cured me of my
depression/anxiety/suicidal thoughts/mental
illness/whatever."
I've always
found these claims difficult to relate to, because I
didn't have anything to "cure" or "get
over" when I first started TM. I had already left
drugs
behind me, having discovered them back when LSD was still
legal and came in a bottle with Sandoz on the label. I did
my time with them, enjoyed them *not* because they were an
"escape from my problems" but because they
enhanced an
already-enjoyable life. But then I got tired of them, and
even more tired of the scene surrounding them, and left
them
behind. I'm probably one of the only people here who
didn't have to wait 15 days before starting TM.
:-) I was also neither depressed nor suicidal. In
fact, I was a pretty happy frood, and merely one who was
looking for ways to become even happier.
And for a time, TM
presented what I was looking for, something to enhance a
good life and help me to appreciate it even more. But then
it became as boring and as stagnant as drugs had been, and
with an even more stifling social scene, so I moved on
again
to other forms of meditation that worked better.
But there seem to
be any number of long-term TMers who don't look back on
their TM experience this way. They seem to focus on what it
enabled them to "get over" or "cure" or
"get beyond," almost as if
(almost) before TM they had been "broken" and TM
had "fixed" them.
This gets me to
thinking about tent revival meetings in the South (which,
of
course, you can't help but attend a few of if you grow
up in the South), in which the most fervent
"believers" and most fundamentalist
Bible-thumpers
were ALL those who formerly were drunks or whores or
thieves
or something BAD. It's as if they don't feel they
can adequately shout "I've been SAVED!"
unless
they feel they had a lot to be saved FROM.
And *this* gets me to thinking
about whether Maharishi always pitched TM to losers and
people with problems and low self esteem because they
become
the best disciples. And *disciples* is what he was looking
for.
Think about it.
Does the TMO really spend any energy trying to market TM to
"regular
people," who have few problems in life and are just
looking to enjoy it more? They do not. They focus on People
With Problems.
Kids doing badly in
school. Criminals locked away in prisons. Veterans with
PTSD.
Can't this be
seen as a continuation of a long-standing trend to look for
prospective new students among populations who are more
likely to be easy to convert into True Believers and thus
become disciples?
It's just an
idea. YMMV.
