--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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. > >
i am quite surprised at your age-centrism Rick. In thinking about it more, perhps you don't see the same 20ish kids I do. FF perhaps has become a bit of a retirement community with few kids. But I see many kids that are hardly career-zombies. Segments that are heavily into fitness and/or piercings, goth-looks (fading some from 5-10 years ago), marching in streets against IMF, WTO, etc. All signs of "seekers", IMO. Look at MYspace. Hardly an army of uniform career-zombies. Quite more diverse and interesting than the majority of students in the mid-60s -- just before the dam broke. And again, for thos who are strongly career-focussed -- being so is quite compatible with exploring the world a bit in ones 20's. Exploring, breaking boundaries, doing the unvonventional can often be a huge plus in ones later career. Both in initial job interviews -- something that sets them apart-- and later on -- the qualites of shakti and/or creative intelligence blossoming. And as far as "the spark". Getting today's kids attention. "hopping on your ass or 8 hours in a cornfield in Iowa" is not going to get their attention. But get a core of students who do the program among 1000-1500 and word will spread. I am not talking ME. That may or may not have much validity. But everyone who haws been on a big course knows there is "big juice". Something strong happening. If and when todays students get a whiff of that -- AND ITS FREE -- they will react as you and I and 1000's of others did in the early 70s. And today's and tomorrow's careers are hardly what they were 20-30 years ago. They are more fluid, flexibily, sliceable, morphable, etc. Much more compatible with a periodic YF that they were in the 70's. 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/
