--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "markmeredith2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I predict the plan to make vedic city, iowa a pilgrimage > center for hindus will be even more successful than MMY's > plan to make (doug henning's) vedaland more popular than > disneyworld, though not as successful as his plan to make > hagelin president.
A fairly safe prediction. :-) I wonder whether one of the major factors involved in the failure of these ideas is the near-total lack of familiarity on the part of Maharishi and the TMO higher-ups with the common people they think they are appealing to. I mean (a question for those of you who might know), how long has it *been* since Maharishi met someone face to face who does not practice TM and who has the money to buy their way into his presence? Ten years? Fifteen years? Longer? All that time, as far as I know, the *only* people he has interfaced with are the Truest of the True Believers, complete Yes-men and Yes-women who *share* his disdain for and distance from the common people of the planet. The *arrogance* of it all is not unlike George W. Bush pretending to understand and care about the problems of the middle class in America. Bush not only knows nothing about them; chances are that he hasn't even *talked* with any of them in his entire life. He's *famous* for wanting to be surrounded only by people of his "class." These projects are meant to appeal to Maharishi's *fantasies* of what people are like and what they want, not what people are really like and what they want. No wonder they don't work. As Jimi Hendrix once sang: And so castles made of sand slip into the sea, eventually ------------------------ 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/
