--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wmurphy77 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snip > > > The way I heard the story, it was the Shankaracharya, or the guy > MMY was > > propping up as the Shankaracharya (I can't begin to keep the > details of that > > whole mess straight) who suggested to MMY, during a quick trip to > India > > during the Fiuggi course, that he offer something more to the > Westerners. So > > Maharishi pulled out a copy of the Yoga Sutras and began > experimenting on > > half a dozen of the M-group types around him (I got this account > from one of > > them). The sidhis didn't come out until 1977. The 1% effect came > out when > > Domash was reigning physicist in 1974. There was a campaign in the > UK in > > which one of the slogans was "you can be one of the 99 if you can > get one of > > your friends to be the one." Square root of 1% came out soon after > the > > sidhis, and Domash or Hagelin was physicist at that point. It was > still > > Domash until about 1980. Anyway, I think the theory preceded the > research. > > In other words, the theory of 1% or square root of 1% was bandied > about > > before any societal testing was done. And Maharishi spent countless > hours > > discussing this and lecturing about it. It's not like it was > foisted on him > > by cunning physicists. As always, he was calling the shots. He was > tickled > > pink to get a theory that would absolve him from having to get 10% > of the > > world's population meditating, or even 1%. Anyway, I don't think > this > > particular point has much to do with the failure of the movement. > Although > > the advent of the sidhis sure scared off a lot of respectable folks > who were > > beginning to take it seriously. > > Thanks Rick, for the History lesson, I needed it. At any rate, it > really > supports my contention that MMY has rested the entire welfare of the > TMorg's success on these bogus studies!! It's psuedo-science, it > hasn't been proven satisfactorily. Remember.."thru the window of > science". We might as well replace Guru Dev's picture with that of > the greatest scientest of our age, the great John Hagelin!! MMY's > biggest mistake was, is, and always will be, the Siddhi's program! >
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