It is pretty good - although unless I missed it the writer left out the allegations that Marshy loved to dip the proverbial wick.
________________________________ From: "awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2014 11:27 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] avertive millennialism ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : http://www.has.vcu.edu/wrs/profiles/TranscendentalMeditation.htm World Religions & Spirituality | Transcendental Meditati... TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION (TM) TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TIMELINE 1918 (?) Founder Mahesh Prasad Varma (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi) was b... View on www.has.vcu.edu Preview by Yahoo This is an excellent synopsis and fills in some missing pieces for me chronologically and otherwise. I'll take a better look at it later but skimming through it appears very clear and objective as far as explanations and history of the Movement. Good find. ________________________________ From: "Share Long sharelong60@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2014 10:51 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] avertive millennialism Michael, who were you quoting when you wrote: evidence of this millennial age of peace, prosperity, and happiness has proven difficult to document. On Saturday, August 23, 2014 9:44 AM, "Share Long sharelong60@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Michael, you say that better times are difficult to document? Maybe this will help: 5 Reasons Why 2013 Was The Best Year In Human History 5 Reasons Why 2013 Was The Best Year In Human History Here are five simple, powerful reasons why you should believe the world has never been better -- and is getting better still. View on thinkprogress.org Preview by Yahoo On Saturday, August 23, 2014 9:32 AM, "Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: This claim that the group practice of the TM sidhis can produce a new age is an example of what scholars call “progressive millennialism,” the belief that the world can gradually be brought to a state of perfection. However, Maharishi’s teachings are never so easy to categorize; he has also periodically issued emergency calls for sidhi practitioners to gather by the thousands for World Peace Assemblies in order to prevent the outbreak of wars and other imminent calamities. Scholars call this form of radical preventive action “avertive millennialism.” Devoted practitioners of TM believe that several catastrophes have been prevented by group meditation assemblies over the last four decades. Although Maharishi (1976) repeatedly declared that the “Age of Enlightenment” has already dawned, evidence of this millennial age of peace, prosperity, and happiness has proven difficult to document.
