--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "markmeredith2002" > <markmeredith@> 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 does > not have 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 >
When I was on the Dubrovnik Peace Project, which ran 1999/2000, we were visited by a movement PR guy raising money for Doug Hennings veda land. He gave us a presentation about floating buildings, budget&Profit forecasts and some focus group/bullsh*t and told us the minimum investment was $50,000. It was a perticularly depressing night with talk mostly of money and investments only and nothing even remotelty spiritual. We then had a Q&A session in which people asked how the project was going (Very well) How Doug was and what he's been up to (working hard and totally devoted to veda land) The course leaders pointed out who the richest CP's were and he spent a few days courting them before flying home. 1st class of course. Imagine our surpise when Doug Henning died the very next week and we found out had been seriously ill for some time. I mean, what a cynical exercise. I wish I could remember the PR guys name, what a soul-less prick. Age of Enlightenment behaviour? I think not. That might have been when I first started questioning the way things are run, the next was Maharishi's press conference with Slobodan Milosovic (the butcher of Belgrade) about what a wronged man he is. But thats another story! I wonder if anyone ever got a refund. ------------------------ 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/
