--- In [email protected], "Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], MDixon6569@ wrote: > > > > > > In a message dated 3/1/06 5:37:42 P.M. Central Standard Time, > > anonyff@ 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. > Yes, exhaustion of all the ways that we devise to get enlightened is an excellent step...
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