--- In [email protected], "jyouells2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > So, who is more likely to be loyal to MMY and the TMO, > > the guy who is willing to pay $1 million to the TMO for > > the privledge of wearing a funny hat and helping to make > > policy, or the guy who mocks the first guy? > > We'll see who beats feet and how fast. Time will tell. But > results would be better.
Just as a topic for discussion, *does* money buy loyalty in spiritual organizations? Sparaig's theory above is that the guy who paid a million bucks to wear a funny hat and be a Raja is more likely to remain loyal to the organization after Maharishi is dead. My experience in other organizations tells me dif- ferently. I would be willing to bet that a lot of these Rajas -- probably over 50% of them -- are going to beat feet from the TMO within two to three years after Maharishi's death. Why? Well, it all has to do with what they *bought* for their million dollars. What they bought was *attention*, pure and simple. These people paid a million dollars each so that they could 1) get more attention from Maharishi during the last years of his life, and 2) get more attention from the lower-level TMers around them, who have to "look up to them" as the top level in a *very* hierarchical organization. This same phenomenon -- buying your way to the top -- shows up in a lot of other spiritual organizations. And one of the things you notice in those organizations is that as soon as the guy in charge dies, those who *have* bought their way to the top and positioned them- selves as his "closest followers" are often the first ones to leave. Where do they go? To another organization, and another teacher, where they buy their way to the top of *that* organization's attention hierarchy. So I'd be willing to bet that we'll see a lot of "bail-outs" among the Rajas as soon as Maharishi dies. These people didn't pay a million bucks to sit around and do the down-and-dirty daily work of running a large international organization. They paid a million bucks to get to spend some time around a dying spirit- ual teacher, and to get a lot of attention. As soon as they're not getting that attention any more, they'll start to look elsewhere for it. Mark my words. 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/
