--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "dhamiltony2k5" > <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > <snip> > > Not much like Harvard or Yale actually. The integrity is way higher > > & much more transparent at the real universities. Differently, at > > MUM it takes so much more money when half of it disappears > abroad. > > No surprize that 250 people have backed out of providing their > money > > to Maharaishi now and the TMorg. The word is out. > > > > It is about integrity and this money thing kind of goes in the > same > > catagory with the movement not being able to easily attract the > 2,000 > > or 1700 people (M.E.) it was wishing for without hirlings. > > > > It is a sad story about the loss of integrity and a fallen guru. > > Look at the money problem, their research and their pr, they are > > apparently liars, cheaters and stealers in method. Qualities not > > usually associated with integrity. We'll see if Maharishi can re- > > write things as they have become at the end of his book in the > final > > chapter. > > > > Lots of people will write the epilogue when the time is ready and > > there is a lot of material for that. > > > > -Doug in FF > > I don't really see it as a problem with integrity- In other words I > don't think the money is being used to enrich anyone. As I've said > before the TMO including MUM has always struck me as nearly povery > ridden. The problem is that they feel they are not accountable to > their benefactors. I feel incalculable gratitude for Maharishi's > knowledge and could not really put a price tag on it. Having said > that, I give almost nothing to the Movement, because of > this "however we spend it is the best way, and no, we don't have to > tell you how because we are saving the world" attitude. Or more > precisely, when they pretend not to have the described attitude and > it leaks out anyway. I would feel better if they just said, "we need > money again for continued operations" and left it at that. >
*********** The total goal for the pundit project was $5 mil, but this included several years of support -- all the money ($2.2 million) raised so far for pundit housing in Vedic City was spent there on the trailer park and land. Bevan is asking the 260 people who pledged to donate when the pundits showed to cough up (1600 people have already donateed).
