--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But those big courses are fun. I was at Amherst in '79 > and then at MIU for the winter one (was that 84 or > 85). Both were really amazing. I don't know if our > collective consciousness actually does anything, but > the subjective experiences are incredible when you > have large numbers doing program together.
I agree. Personally, I attribute the subjective "high" to large numbers of people meditating together, and don't think that the siddhis have anything whatsoever to do with it, but I agree that large courses can be fun. Plus, I think that everyone senses that this may be the last of them. Maharishi isn't going to live forever, and when he goes, I have not seen any indication that *anyone* else within the TM movement could inspire more than a handful of people to come to a course. They could plead and cry and beg and claim that the world is going to end if people don't come, and everyone would ignore them, because they just don't have the chops to pull that sort of thing off. Not one of them. As I've said in another context recently, not one of them has done anything to *deserve* such faith or to inspire the necessary suspension of disbelief. And not one of them is likely to in any of our lifetimes. So IMO this will probably be the Last Big Course, even though I suspect that Maharishi will see the final numbers as disappointing. I think that may be the biggest reason many people are attending, and that they don't really believe any more that they're going to affect world conditions. They're attending out of a sense of nostalgia for the "good old days" and out of a lingering and quickly diminishing respect for the guy who *used* to be able to inspire them. That said, I wish all of those who have attended the best, and I hope they have a great time. At this point in TM history, those within the TMO who still have the faith to do so are far more impressive than those who are trying to exploit it. > --- jim_flanegin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dude, you better go! Or else, "the world" is going > > to explode!!! > > > > --- In [email protected], Peter > > <drpetersutphen@> > > wrote: > > > > > > Wow! iI've never heard this rhetoric, er, news, > > > before! > > > > > > --- Dick Mays <dickmays@> wrote: > > > > > > > "You have the Key to the Gate of Heaven, and now > > > > everyone is going to > > > > enjoy you opening the Gate for the whole world." > > > > -Maharishi, speaking today to the Invincible > > America > > > > Course participants > > > > > > > > "The experience of the Invincible America Course > > in > > > > Washington is paradise." > > > > -Dr. Dean Dodrill, Raja of Washington > > > > > > > > HISTORIC NEWS > > > > Super Radiance Requirement Surpassed! > > > > (JULY 25) As of 12:00 noon (CDT) today, 1737 > > Yogic > > > > Flyers have > > > > applied to attend the Invincible America Course, > > > > surpassing the Super > > > > Radiance requirement of 1730 for the nation. > > > > Congratulations to all > > > > those who have responded so quickly to the > > urgent > > > > need of the time. > > > > Now, it is vitally important that all of you who > > > > have registered for > > > > the course come quickly and fly together every > > day > > > > in Washington and > > > > in Fairfield/Maharishi Vedic City. > > > > > > > > It is also vitally important that all of you who > > > > have not yet applied > > > > please do so right away! 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