--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "jyouells2000" <jyouells@> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> > wrote: <snip> > > > > > So, you don't believe that David Lynch is donating money to > > > > > get kids of all ages to learn to meditate? > > > > > > > > It doesn't *matter* what David Lynch is donating money > > > > *for*. All that matters is what the TMO will do with > > > > the money. The TMO doesn't *care* about any of these > > > > new meditators; it cares only about real estate. > > > > > > It doesn't matter what the TMO does with the money: David > > > Lynch's foundation is paying for *initiations*. > > > > On the subtle level of feeling/intuition, doesn't it strike > > you as odd that someone would need a foundation and or > > loans to pay for initiation? > > You're talking "feeling" and "intuition" to a TB? > Bite your tongue. They operate on a higher level: > blind faith. :-) > > But it's rather a good point. If it were *not* for > David Lynch (the man lots of "feeling, intuitive" > people here like to look down upon because of the > content of his movies), would there be *any* people > learning TM in the United States? > > No one will ever release actual statistics of how > many people are really learning TM these days, > because to do so would reveal the emptiness of the > TM PR blurbs, but I'd be willing to bet that all > but a handful are paid for by David Lynch. And *he* > is doing it because he realizes that the TM move- > ment can no longer be trusted to do it themselves.
Except that almost from the very beginning, it was MMY's goal to have TM instruction funded by some source with a lot of money, rather than individuals having to pay. He had assumed that churches, governments, and other institutions would recognize the value of TM to society and would take over the funding. Obviously that hasn't happened, but for a wealthy individual to provide the funding is the next-best thing. In any case, the "PR blurbs" you cite are out of date. MMY's been explicit that he's given up, at least for the time being, on teaching individuals to meditate and is focusing instead on establishing groups of pundits. > Say what you will about his odd tastes, the man > puts *his* money where his beliefs are. He could > be taking his money and investing it in real > estate the way the TM movement does, but he's not. Most likely Lynch has invested what he's earned from making movies as well and made quite a bit of money from those investments, which is why he has enough now to fund initiations. And maybe MMY has the same idea vis-a-vis creating groups of pundits: invest TMO dollars in real estate and fund the pundit groups from the proceeds. Eventually, perhaps his thinking goes, the groups of pundits will succeed in raising the level of consciousness worldwide, at which point the value of TM to individuals will be recognized by the churches and governments and so on, and they'll start to pay for instruction in TM for individuals. The long way around may be the shortest way home, as they say. > He's actually doing something to help people. The > day the TM movement does the same, it'll regain > a tiny bit of its vanished credibility. Or perhaps it will regain its credibility once folks realize *how* it's doing something to help people. ------------------------ 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/
