--- In [email protected], "Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 29th September 1967 'The Frost Programme' included an > interview with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at London Airport. > During the chat the topic of mantras came up. His answer > would give the listener the idea that the TM movement > used a palette of 'thousands' of mantras, which, if it were > not true, would amount to false advertising. > > Frost - Is that the same sound that you give to each person? > MMY - No, each person gets different but we don't have as > many sounds > as we have men in the world. So they are grouped together. > Frost - How many sounds are there? > MMY - Oh there are lots of sounds. > Frost - I mean hundreds or thousands or ...? > MMY - You could say thousands.
I look forward to discussion of this topic among the TM TBs, especially the...uh..."creative" ways they'll come up with to deny that Maharishi was lying. It's a fascinating phenomenon, one that I saw in the Rama trip as well. He'd go on some television show like Larry King and look into the camera and lie through his teeth about something, like what he'd said about himself in the past or what he'd told his students to do. *All* of the students watching would know from their own personal experience that he was lying, but some would just "not hear it," and blot it out and then later deny that he'd said it, and others would say things like, "Well, the people in the media are just not as evolved as we are, so it's Ok to lie to them," and so on and so on. It always struck me at the time as fascinating, partly because I'd already seen so much of this same phenomenon earlier, during in my time in the TMO. I guess this stuff happens in every spiritual movement -- seekers gazing at the teacher and never really seeing what he does and says, only what they want to see and hear... 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/
