--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Paul Mason" <premanandpaul@> > 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... >
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