--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/23/06 11:02 AM, new.morning at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > If the TMO dropped SIMS rates to $400, perhaps tying it to FF course > > application, soon they would be flooded once word got out, and > > students "got it". Heck, just give free TM scholarships to all the > > students who attended the Lynch lectures, and that could be the kernal > > to start it all. A blazing bonfire of 2000+ SIMSers rushing to the > > FREE course. > > > College kids these days aren¹t spiritual seeks, by and large. They¹re on a > career track and not many are going to rush off to spend 8 hours a day > meditating.
Sorry you think that. Do you really feel that you and your generation was THAT unique, "spiritual" and special? And that other generations are devoid of spiritual quests? I am guessing in 1965 you would have looked around at UCLA students in 1965 and said the same as you do now. How wrong could you have been. If many of those were not stick-up their ass career-tracked kids, i don't know what were. Yet there was a strong (latently) spiritual seeking subset that rocked the world. At SSRS events, i see a number of 20ishes. I assume the same at Amma-fests. No? Or are you simple making a gross generalization (on steroids) about today's kids. The Lynch lecture kids looked something other career-a-trons. And who says its either or. Many students put college on hold for a year or tow to explore. Nothing incompatible with that and strong career goals. You are honestly saying, that out of 20 million collegeage students (guess) there are not 2000 that would get "pumped" at the opportunity for a free one year course (after they were given a chance to get into TM a bit). If so, my you seem to have become quite jaded over the years. Your nephew, who wrote those wonderful letters from India, and/or his peers would not be interested in 12-month free course? Is he that career focussed? > > > > Regarding a neo-SIMS, some will say, "well, sure, but when they dig a > > bit deeper, they will run of the hills when they hear of rajas, > > eastern entrances, yagyas, etc. I disagree. As far as entrances and > > yagyas, many will respond (in their venacular), as 60's students would > > have, "HEAVY! Does this get any more far out!". And why should the > > raja's scare students if say HHDL doesn't. > Because he¹s sincere, compassionate, unassuming, down-to-earth, and honest. > People have become hip to and afraid of cults in the past 40 years and > aren¹t going to adjust to the rajas. Did it stop the Lynch lecture kids from attending?. Even travelling 500-1000 miles ot some god-forsaken town in the middle of cornfields? I think many people are far more open then you think. Not all cringe at thhings the way "we" do. I had a next door neighbor, a physician and his wife, well-read and traveled, who teld me about this great guy from the Natural Law Party they had seen on TV. "John something." they said. "John Haglin" i replied. They were delighted I knew of him. After some discussion, I said I was familiar with the underlying org that supports him and it had some pretty cultish features -- and I elaborated. The wife, from UK, and pretyy cosmopolitan just laughed and said, "well, to some, the army and universities can seem pretty cultish." I remember when MMY came out with "Age of Enlightenment". Mnay initiators cringed. "Hes gone way to far now". Wasn't so (on that point) > > For the first time in ages, I'm stoked! A BIG course could be close. > > Or very far. Its at a tipping point. As may be a real core > > transformation of "the world". > or not. Like I said, its a tipping point. Too much dark, jaded views and inability to let go a bit may squash it. Or not. 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
