In fact, I think that the US TM organization has proven that it doesn't care that much about money. $800,000 is chicken feed, and they've dropped teh price on a semi-permanent basis, so obviously, money isn't as big a deal as you seem to think.
As long as they can make expenses and keep the TM teachers fed and sheltered, the actual price that new meditators pay can drop pretty darned low. I know several people who get extra funding from the DLF to make TM instruction affordable, and that was on top of whatever discount the TM center could offer. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : From: "LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Gross income from TM instruction in the USA for the Maharishi Foundation was far, FAR less than $50,000,000. About 1/10 that, and after paying TM teachers, advertising, etc., the MF netted about $800,000 for 2012. Thanks for the correction, Lawson. Isn't it fascinating that the only measure that Nabby has for success or "doing fine" is that the organization teaching TM supposedly made millions of dollars? He doesn't even make a *pretense* of caring about the people learning TM, or about their welfare. In fact, he seems to care about the only thing that the TMO cares about -- making money. That's why I point him out to the journalists following this forum as "the perfect example of a TM cultist." If the hatred he displays towards people who practice other forms of meditation weren't *enough*, he's a greedy, money-grubbing fuck to boot. But still, the TM organization is sitting on assets of over a billion dollars. Why does it have to charge *anything* for TM? If the technique were really the panacea they present it as, and so valuable for creating individual happiness and world peace, wouldn't they *want* to make it available to as many people as possible? The organization HAS the money to do this, and has had it for over thirty years. *At any point* during that time they could have put their money where their mouth is and *paid for all TM instruction themselves*. That's what an ethical organization sitting on a billion dollars would do. Instead of investing in real estate and putting money into the pockets of Maharishi's relatives in India, they could have paid the TM teachers themselves, alloweing them to teach for free. At a median "salary" of $400 per student paid to the TM teachers, that would have meant that they could have taught two and a half million people TM by now, and still had money left over. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : And are doing fine considering they made $ 50.000.000.- in 2012 and probably more in 2013 in the USA alone. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : They're competing against organizations that will charge $125 for a weekend workshop. On 06/30/2014 10:33 AM, 'Rick Archer' rick@... mailto:rick@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Thanks for the update on the prices. They do seem to be getting pretty reasonable. What would $35/$75 in 1970 be in today’s dollars?
