I thought you were talking about a model where celebrities wanted to be around MMY.
Using celebrities to promote a product is used by jjust about everyone if they can afford it, so I see no reason fro that to change. For the cost of room, board, a plane ticket, and a nice plaque, MUM can get 6.5 million people to watch a video where the central theme is graduating from MUM. Why would they change THAT model? ANd of course, if the negotiations go well in South America and in Africa, the TMO will expand 20-fold over the 10 years. Why would they try to do things differently? Few companies in history go from 5 million customers to 100 million customers in only 10 years. Of course, success like that will breed its own set of problems, but I'm pretty sure that they're looking at sustainability issues at the same time that they're looking at expansion issues, which is something MMY had to deal with using extremely drastic measures last time. This time, they have 10 years warning. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : From: "LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] ~~~~~~~~~~ about TMO friendship ~~~~~~~~~~~ Why does everyone assume that the model that MMY developed must be the only model that the TM organization can use? Duh. Because the TM organization is a personality cult. Such cults don't change just because the personality dies. If anything, the personality-in-charge's rules become even more written in stone and unchangeable when he croaks. Look at what you yourself did below. While writing a post ostensibly claiming that the TMO could possibly use some other sales model than "celebrity spokesmodels," you go on to describe the latest use of celebrity spokesmodels. You didn't even notice. THAT is how entrenched and "stuck in their ways" cults and cultists can get. The David Lynch Foundation does just fine getting new and old-time celebrities to support the cause, and just because you don't see the new wave that is beginning, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Jim Carrey's commencement speech to MUM has gone viral with 6+ million views on youtube: Full Speech: Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at the 2014 MUM Graduation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V80-gPkpH6M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V80-gPkpH6M Full Speech: Jim Carrey's Commencement Address a... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V80-gPkpH6M Maharishi University of Management (http://www.mum.edu) granted degrees to 285 students representing 54 countries. Jim Carrey gave the commencement a... View on www.youtube... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V80-gPkpH6M Preview by Yahoo That's 5+ million people who never would have heard of MUM otherwise. If nothing else, the google adsense revenue alone should be enough to pay for a full-time MUM faculty member. And the TM org is canny enough to figure out how to continue creating new publicity at all levels. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : The problem I see for the TMO, moving into the future, is that it's an organization in which NO ONE inspires confidence. You would *have* to be an existing, pre-programmed-as-the-result-of-decades-of-propaganda True Believer to find *any* of the leaders or "celebrity spokespersons" of the TM movement in any way charismatic or confidence-inspiring. Show photos of them to anyone under 30, straight off the street, and they'd laugh at you for considering them worthy of attention, much less worthy of being "followed" in a spiritual context. Young, dynamic people don't "follow" people who look like this:
