---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote :
Like The Blues Brothers, MMY was on a mission from God. YMMV as to whether or not you agree with him as to the source, but anyone who thinks that he didn't have some sense of divine inspiration and mission about what he was doing has taken denial in another direction, I think. Sounds like wishful thinking to me Lawson. Telling people you're on a mission from god is a good way to raise interest though, he certainly did it too. I know loads of people who think that Marshy was absolute - that's the actual words they use - and therefore incapable of making a mistake. It's a clever trick to pull off. He never actually said it himself but he laid the groundwork with the "impulse from the unified field" belief system and everyone put two and two together. I think he was a great PR man in that respect. Seems to me we have two options. Perhaps after the failure of TM on its own to sustain the TMO he had to keep coming up with new ideas to keep the money coming in. That's what it was all about from the "siddhis" onwards. All he had to do is say that yagyas (for instance) are from ancient India and the cheque books were out in a flash. Luckily there are plenty of old superstitions to loot and claim you have "revived in their completeness" Like jyotish - which still isn't complete because half the planets are missing from your chart. Or he had a plan from the start to rebuild the world like it was in iron age India and gradually introduced his "technologies" when he thought we were ready for them. Maybe he even believed this stuff and his hype but Earl Kaplan claims Marshy didn't even know whether the ME would actually work. Did you believe him when he said that? L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote : On 5/22/2014 4:03 PM, salyavin808 wrote: Marshy made me believe I could fly by sitting cross legged and hopping up and down holding my feet. I thought I was clever until then, I'm excruciatingly embarrassed about it now. So you've got to hand it to him as far as weaving a spell goes. > This is really funny when you get down to the raw details: a guy sitting on a deerskin rug, wearing a bed sheet and looking like a flower salesman with a funny giggle, a guy you never even met, weaved a spell on you, put you into a trance-induction state, then coerced you into listening to hours and hours of audio and video tapes for years, brainwashing you into believing you could hop, skip, and jump to enlightenment, become invisble, and walk on water - by thinking about a nonsense gibberish phrase. This guy, The Maharishi, must have been an AWESOME genius! As P.T. Barnum once said "There's a sucker born every minute." LoL! Yup, I was in a cult, I admit it. The trick is to realise that fact and make your weary way back to reality. A lot of people don't. Was Marshy a genius? Undoubtably, I doff my cap to him. I wish I'd thought of it.
