The cause of the abject failure of the Lynch Foundation to help 275 people to learn TM is *not* right-wing Christianity. It's the TMO.
David Lynch has a noble intent. He has experienced numerous benefits from practicing TM, and wishes that more people could learn it and also benefit. But he understands that the thing that is standing in the way of people learning TM is *the TM organ- ization itself*. That organization, with its high prices and its history of cultishness, is the reason why almost no one is learning TM. Since the TMO was never going to do anything to correct this situation and make TM more available to more people, Mr. Lynch tried to. IMO he picked a dumb way to do it. You don't mess around with school systems in the US without running into flack, no matter *what* program you want them to provide to students. IMO what he should have done, if what he wanted to do was increase the number of people starting TM, is to make public some kind of scholarship fund with *no* school or guvmint affil- iation, open to everyone. For example, offer to pay 90% of the cost of learning TM for *anyone* who is willing to commit to practicing it regularly for six months or so. That would have been more expensive for him, but it might have worked, and no one would have been able to interfere with it. But let us not lose sight of the REAL PROBLEM. It's not right-wing Christians or even vocal ex- TMers. It's Maharishi, and the TMO. *They* are the ones who have priced TM out of the reach of the public. *They* are the ones who are preventing people from learning TM. David Lynch is doing what he's doing to *counteract* their influence. He deserves credit and praise for what he's doing to help more people learn to meditate. Maharishi and the TMO deserve none at all. 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/
