--- In [email protected], Jason Spock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Someone called Gerbil accused Maharishi of taking our own teachings and giving it back to us.?? His teachings got better and better over time.??
It's called the Pizza effect. I realized it, when I saw a modern middle class Indian woman circumbulating the Mothers shrine at Ramana Ashram, with a copy of 'Power of Now' under her arm, while the pundits were conducting a Shri Chakra puja. 'The Power of Now' and Deepak Chopra Books are prominently displayed in all bookstores I had seen in India, as well as with all street vendors. "Lack of confidence in one's own culture, combined with the blind acceptance of all things new and foreign, has resulted in what social scientists term the "pizza-effect". The pizza, originally the simple unleavened bread of Italy, accompanied early emigrants to America, where it became embellished with cheese, anchovies and pepperoni, totally transformed from the original. Year later, the pizza made its triumphant return to Italy, where the new product was eagerly accepted and given pride of place in Italian cuisine. In similar fashion, traditional Lankan culture has become obscured and misunderstood when it is analyzed and dissected using the prism of modem thought. Nevertheless, this puzzling by-product of essentially Western thinking is proudly reintroduced and naively accepted as though it were the original genuine Lankan culture itself." http://kataragama.org/news/eclipse.htm Basically Indian teachings are getting westernized, and then reimported to India, were an eager upcoming Middle Class is just waiting for it. [ As an aside about 'Power of Now', just for curiosities sake: Its basically a copy of a Barry Long book, of whom 'Eckhart' (really Ulrich) Tolle was a disciple, who was published in the 80's and quite unsuccesful. Tolle basically rewrote it, its full of Barry Long teachings. Also the title 'Power of Now' was the theme Tolle had got by the group: He theme at the time was 'Power' AND 'Now'. I heard that Tolle copies Long even up to the style of sweaters he wears. All in all it reminds me of the stories of Chopra and SSRS ] ------------------------ 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/
