--- In [email protected], gerbal88 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], gerbal88 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Ingegerd" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > What about KGB. Did MMY accept that they were in the TMO. I > do > > not > > > > > know if they was or not. I only heard rumours. > > > > > Ingegerd > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Almost certainly they were. > > > > > > > > > > Ooooh. > > > > > > How sinister. > > > > > > How important we must be that the CIA and the KGB bothered with > our > > > little spiritual group...I guess we must have been on to > something > > SO > > > earth-shattering that these organisations took an interest in us. > > > > > > We should be so lucky... > > > > When it was suggested to Mahesh that in addition to sending > teachers > > to India to teach SCI (I made a joke about carrying coals to > > Newcastle, but no one got it), we should also send teachers to > China, > > Mahesh was instantly very negative on the idea. He said Mao might > > steal TM. What could possibly have been simple than getting on a > TTC > > in the early 70's. If anyone wanted to know the "secrets" s/he > sould > > go on a TTC ant presto. Any group could infiltrate the TMO. > > > > Mahesh suffered from an insatiable grandiosity and simply fed on > his > > own delusion that he was so magnificient that anyone important must > > be after his secrets of which he was such a great purveyor. > > I left out something: 'folie a deux is the situation where a paranoid > delusional system appears to have developed in a person as a result > of a close relationship with another person who has an established > and similar delusional system' - from GPNotebook. While this is > generally rare, Mahesh managed on TTC's to instil a sense of how > special his teachers were in the newbees. New teachers and old ones > as well, tended to participate in Mahesh's worldview because they had > taken it on when they were rounding and very impressionable. > > It's effective, incidious, highly unethical and smacks of > brainwashing in the worst usages of that term. But what the hey, > Mahesh needed to feed his narcissism what the hell did he care about > some stupid ethics. After all, he's the one who said "the lawyers > will make it legal". >
...and know what? I certainly wouldn't mind if all the organisational schemes worked. I think TM is the greatest thing since sliced bread...and if training mindless robotrons who bought into a TMO cult would have effectively propagated this technique, I would be all for it. But it didn't work. And the schemes -- some of them -- were dishonest and embarassing. And it simply wasn't necessary. MMY did a great, great thing: he brought out to the world this simple and incredibly effective technique of self-development that virtually any and all could do and benefit from. He packaged it so that belief or joining a religion wasn't necessary to do it. He even challenged the scientific community to confirm and document it's effects. No one had ever done all that before. You know the old saying: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Well, MMY and the TMO circa '77 went WAY beyond fixing what wasn't broken. ------------------------ 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/
