--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Michael Dean Goodman > <Tantra@> wrote: > > For an explanation of my point of view, please see message #90043, > > "TM Course Fees and the Real Goals of the Movement", a lengthy, > con- > > troversial essay I posted here a couple of times, that has made > it's > > way around the world, been translated into multiple languages on > var- > > ious lists (Russian, German, Spanish, etc.), and explains, based on > > Maharishi's own words, why initiations of individuals into TM were > > not important for the past 30 years. > > > > Go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/90043 > > > > You read mine, then I'll read yours (that you'll eventually post), > > then we'll have an intelligent dialogue. > > > > Namaste, > > > > Michael > > > Thanks again Michael for this, a truly inspired piece of writing- > absolutely brilliant! This is the second time I've read this, and > enjoyed it even more the second time!
I just went back and read it again too, and it really is quite extraordinary. I have no idea whether Michael's theory is "true" or not, but it sure does a good job of making sense of what we tend to perceive as the nuttiness of what MMY's been doing lately. I haven't seen any alternative explanations that account for as many aspects of that apparent nuttiness as Michael's does. I also read over some of the responses. Most were really appallingly shallow, the standard knee-jerk True Nonbeliever negativity. (Complaints, for example, that it was "too long" and therefore must be "defending the indefensible" --this from people who never even read it. Or maybe they *did* read it, realized it was pretty convincing, and were anxious to discourage others from reading it, because it makes their constant petty carping look awfully silly, EVEN IF Michael's completely wrong about the whole thing.) 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/
