--- In [email protected], "dhamiltony2k5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "feste37" <feste37@> wrote: > > > > About 950 in the mornings, 1,200+ in the evenings. > > > 1,700 was the important number? The Maharishi Effect? > What say the TB'ers to this that MMY puts the call out > and he can not get it up? Has thia become his legacy, > that his troops will not rally in the end? What do they > think amongst themselves could be done to really get the > numbers now? Do they ask the old-testiment cry, oh God > why hath thou forsaken us? Do they get any answers worth > repeating? Just curious about their take on the situation > and how they might see it remedied?
I think these are all fascinating questions, from a sociological point of view. If anyone who posts here does have an idea of how the faithful are reacting to the rather obvious loss of faith in the general TM community, and the obvious failure of Maharishi to inspire people to come to this course, I'd be interested in hearing what these folks are saying. I'd be willing to bet that not that many of them are reacting with browbeating and loss of faith. There is a really famous book in the sociology of religion called "When Prophecy Fails." It is a study of a real-life sect that predicted the end of the world. The believers were told that "the end" was going to happen on a certain day. They sold their possessions and waited patiently in a group on that day for the end to come. It didn't. The fascinating thing about the study is that while you would expect the sect members to "lose faith" as a result of finding out that everything they had been told was false, they *didn't*. They found ways to "explain" why the end hadn't come *yet*, and to regroup and wait for the *next* "end." Utterly fascinating book that makes the point that having faith itself is *far* more important to people than whether the faith is based on anything resembling reality. Anyway, I would expect that a lot of that is going down right now among the TM faithful. If anyone knows for sure, please pass along what's being said. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/zAINmC/Vp3LAA/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/
