--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "Jeffrey" <initiate22000@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hmmmm, Can someone explain this to me in simpler terms? Was 
> > Maharishi supporting Fidel Castro? If so, why? When did this occur? 
> > What was he trying to acheive?
> 
> I suspect his thinking was that dictators, unlike
> democratically elected leaders, would be able to
> order their governments to fund and promote national
> TM programs, making TM free to their citizens, maybe
> even requiring them to learn it.
> 
> Once there was a sufficient number of people
> meditating in these countries, the Maharishi Effect
> would take hold and the countries' fortunes would
> noticeably improve, serving as a demonstration of
> what TM could do for any country.
> 
> So the idea was to flatter the dictators as a way 
> of getting them interested in TM.
> 
> That's my guess...
>
Exactly. Or as Rick put it so well a few posts ago "In keeping with
the fundamental TMO principle that the end justifies the means."








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