This published source book from July 1975 is really interesting to look at. It is an accounting country-by-country of how TM was doing then. It showed up in a used bookstore in Fairfield recently.
Though TM in the United States in shear numbers of initiators and meditators completely dwarfed those in Western European countries and everywhere else in 1975, yet after 1976-7 the US movement never had a substantial American overseeing following Jerry Jarvis and the experience of his generation like in Walter Koch and others. Their leadership got turned completely out from about then and the American TM movement got turned over to young foreign authoritarians who had little time and experience in leadership. The fall off [attrition] in TM has never recovered from this change in leadership style. Put different people in and you get a different organization, according to Maharishi’s absolute theory of management. Organizations reflect their leader [different from or the other way around from national governments]. This change in org leadership in the org of TM is a good example of how TM and the culture of the Fairfield meditating community has got to where it is now. [ ] In orgs, put authoritarians in who rule by fear and you get an organization filled with fear. 'Corporate' culture. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : It is true that in the spiritual regeneration of the world which Maharishi Mahesh Yogi commenced back in the 1950's that Sweden and Germany were relative bright lights among Western European countries in furnishing initiators and meditators at a time. Though the Europeans were way behind the United States and Canada in furnishing numbers by comparison. Source: First National Leaders Conference in the Age of Enlightenment, July 1975 -JaiGuruYou ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <he...@hotmail.com> wrote : Well, FWIW, it seems like refugees (and "refugees") are attracted especially to the countries in Europe, where TM at the moment is most popular, IMO (e.g. Germany and Sweden)...
