I see from maps (Google Earth) that Skelmersdale has a dome. Do you know if there is the much in the way of attendance? Looks like a suburb community surrounded by a lot of farmland. I wonder how many would pay for a yagya to eliminate stupidity. When you are selling water by the river, you have to think up good ad copy to incite desire to purchase.
I notice from the TM Free blog some comments on Nepal, that the tried and true (though not necessarily successful) technique of sending lots of sidhas to locations in dire need of something that Maharishi initially tried, has changed to raising money to create sidhas, basically to create cash flow for the movement, rather than making any attempt to demonstrate the so-called technology works. Has anyone got any data on the practice attrition rate of those who learned the sidhis? For TM it appears to be 80% to 90% of those who learned. Of the 10% to 20% that remain committed to TM practice, how many of those would learn the sidhis? And then how many would continue practice after that? It would seem that creating sidhas is even a worse option than collecting the ones still committed to the practice and sending them somewhere. Then there is the problem of a disaster happening if you did get a large group together and it failed to accomplish anything. ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote : A brief post about the TMO's shameless money raising techniques appeared on TM-Free this afternoon. The most interesting bit for me is this: "...a TMO email from December 18, 2013 states that: '...the National Yagya program is now averaging [i.e., receiving donations of - ed. note] $429,000 USD per month....The whole world is enjoying the blessings of the daily performance....' That's $5,148,000 a year income for the 'National Yagya program' alone...." I've always wondered how much they get from selling obviously ineffectual prayers, and here it is but this is just the national yagya programme. And doesn't every country have one of those? I know a great many people who have given large amounts of cash to the yagya office, recently Skelmersdale raised 10's of thousands for yagyas to find them a vastu site and it didn't work! And then they decided they didn't want to move anyway! I never gave a penny to what is an obvious scam but is it a malicious one? I used to think it's all folie a deux - a shared delusion. And then I saw John Hagelin's latest yagya rip-off video and realised that anyone with any sort of clue about subatomic physics will know that chanting at quarks and electrons isn't going to change how they work. Not even a little bit. So we know that - at least at the top level - it's a malicious attempt to get devotees to part with hard-earned cash. What sort of organisation would do that? Anyway, part with it they do it seems. $5,000,000 is big money, you could buy a lot of crowns or peace palaces with that. Heck, you could probably pay Girish's legal fees. I'd love to know the full amount raised world-wide. In the UK people buy each other yagya for birthdays. If someone is ill they get a yagya. If they move house - yagya. Looking for work - yagya. An astonishing amount of money must be flowing in to an organisation that is supposedly based on scientific principles. I haven't heard David Lynch talk about this, he probably knows it's embarrassing and keeps quiet to avoid bad publicity. I certainly would but it undermines so much that I just couldn't. Give this criminal enterprise a thorough public airing and the whole house of cards will come down.
