--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 3/1/06 5:37:42 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > When I first learned TM back in 1969, they had these yellow brochures > at the combined SIMS/SRM center located, I think, at 123 E. 78th > Street in Manhattan. In those brochures it said we would be > enlightened in 5-7 years. I remember planning my getting enlightened > out and telling friends how great it would be to be in Cosmic > Consciousness at age 26, God Consciousness at age 27, and finally > Unity Consciousness at age 28. Thats how it was outlined in the > brochure, CC in 5 years, another year for GC, then one final year for UC. > > Here it is almost 37 years later, HA! > > > > > I remember that brochure! Sure kept a lot of people meditating with > enthusiasm for 7 years. Then the next thing was an age of enlightenment course and > then a sidhi course and that would do the trick! Well then we needed Ayurveda > and that would do it, then Yagyas and gemstones, then correct vastu and now a > million dollars. These are all carrots dangled in front of your nose to keep > you doing your program in hopes it's just around the corner and now you have > too much invested in it to give up now. >
+++ A former center chairman (TB) was in my shop last fall and I asked him if one became enlightened after exhausting all his finances or after sufficient abuse and he said that it might happen simultaneously. Maybe that would be an indicator? N. ------------------------ 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/
