Yes, thanks Doug. Amazing to read it! When I'd heard about it all, I rolled my eyes and ignored it. After recent to FF and seeing how the community evolved in recent years, It's fascinating to learn the more recent history. Gina
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jyouells2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" > <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" > > <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > > > Gina, it kind of blurs together. 100 millionaires courses. Rajas > > > for a million, rajas for 500k. Re-certification, de- > > certification > > > course. Re-cert started with having people pay and come in > > > residence and then loosened up to just sending money in and only a > > > phone call and signing papers to recert. It is something else > > now. > > > > > > The announcement on the re-cert course came out in the spring > > > of '05. Often the movmement announcements are copied to FFL as > > part > > > of the discussion. > > > > > > Look on the homepage at the monthly chart for the archive. The > > FFL > > > archive is rich with all kinds of original material. Try the > > March > > > 2005 posts. 'simplify' them and you can scroll through the > > subject > > > headings to get to the re-cert area and find what you are after. > > > > > > > > > I found this one in the early April posts... > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/47012?l=1 > > > > > > Try March 2005, or April 2005 and back up in to the area of the re- > > > cert course. > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > > > > -Doug Hamilton FF > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gimari03 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi all! > > > > > > > > Does anyone have the written info about the teacher- > > > recertification course? > > > > I know about it, just am curious to read the TMO's official > > > invitation to recertification. > > > > tks! > > > > > > > > Gina > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On the TM side, Maharishi announced a new breakthrough > > > > > course and as a result all of the recertified teachers > > > > > are now fully enlightened, and all displaying every one > > > > > of Pantanjali's siddhis, often in public. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hey Gina, > > > > I searched a little bit. Once you get the hang of it there are gems > > to find. There is a lot of stuff that has nothing to do with FF or > > FFL. But in between there is some interesting stuff too. Some > > people have thrilled with filling things up here otherwise to > > obviscate the subject. So it is. > > > > Here are some things that might interest your research: > > > > 'Buy a Raja'. For a million or so. 50% down will do. > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/45050?l=1 > > > > The re-cert and de-certification of the TMO. > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/45444? threaded=1 > > > > De-certification of the TMO, > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/46041?l=1 > > > > Epilogue Re-cert, A lot of people off the hook with de- certification: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/47012?l=1 > > > > > > These posts scratch the surface. Reading the posts around these is > > useful perspective. It is easiest to start in the 'messages' and > > then to plug the numbers of the posts into the msg.# search. That > > will give the post and then the area of the archive with the post. > > Then you can scroll back and forth through the subject headings to > > get the context. > > > > Basically the prime effort for both the re-certs and the rajas was > > to bring real estate to the TMO. Teaching TM was incidental to the > > real estate. You can read that and it is pretty obvious. No money > > of conseqence was forthcoming to the people who went along with it, > > as it turned out. > > > > Another side effect was that it depopulated the domes of true- > > believers and has diluted the group-effect that has always been the > > reason for Fairfield. > > > > It evidently is now about monument building and real estate building > > on good people's goodwill. And then, we all now know what the TMO > > (MMY) does with real estate. There is an old pattern. It generally > > gets sold and the money goes AWOL in form. If MMY and the people > > who facilitate him have learned nothing it is how to do real estate > > on the back of people's goodwill and good nature. And the people > > who serve him? > > > > I understand that Indians can now walk in and learn TM or the > > TM/Sidhis for free now. Westerners? Stick it to them. Draw your > > conclusions about the middle here and MMY. A lot of cultural > > presumption at the top may be. A little cultural anger and cultural > > color on MMY's part? And a theocracy in between. From early on he > > saw that people would readily give him things. He is a quick study > > from early on and now quite experienced in the game of guru and cult. > > > > I hope these posts are useful to your research. It is an > > interesting story really. > > > > Best Regards from Fairfield, > > > > -Doug Hamilton > > > > Doug, it's just amazing to reread this stuff! Thanks for reposting the > links. > > Truly unbelievable, > > JohnY > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/jDk17A/gOaOAA/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/
