--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> > > Yes, MMY is a great saint who has brought a great teaching to the > > world. But I suppose even a great saint can be delusional and > > irrationally paranoid which is what MMY very well may be if he > > thinks the TMO has been spied upon and infiltrated by the CIA. > > The notion that the TMO was spied upon and > infiltrated by the CIA doesn't strike me as > all that unlikely, as I suggested in another > post. It's just that if that were the case, > it would have been for very different reasons > than MMY imagined--either because the CIA > thought MMY was teaching some paranormal > technique that could be useful militarily, or > because they thought the *TMO* was a front > for spying or for communist activity of some > kind. > > The CIA itself was pretty nutty and paranoid > at the height of the Cold War. >
> But that the CIA was intent on *persecuting* > MMY and the TMO is a ludicrous idea. > *********** Prez Carter (he of the faith-healing sister who was himself an evangelical Christian: http://www.alternet.org/story/18378/ ) was clearly an enemy of the TMO, so it's not much of a stretch to understand that he probably ordered the CIA to keep an eye on or destabilize the movement -- the CIA does what the Prez wants, from invading Cuba in the Bay of Pigs to destabilizing Chile, and Carter's animus towards the TMO is documented well enough in his meeting with Maharishi in the Georgia governor's office. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
