--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> jim_flanegin wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> >> Sounds like the Maharishi Gulag program. I think 60 Minutes
might
> >>
> > want
> >
> >> to do a story.
> >>
> >>
> > There is a unique feature here in Santa Clara, California where
I
> > live; a convent pretty much in the center of town, surrounded by
adobe
> > walls, about ten feet in height, the grounds sheltered by palms
and a
> > large grove of olive trees. There is a long driveway of about 75
yards
> > to the main building, and although I have passed it many times,
I've
> > never been able to see anyone within the grounds. No windows are
> > visible from the outside either. It has been around for about
one
> > hundred years. Poor bastards.
> I have no problem with the privacy of ashrams, monasteries, or
> convents. But those aren't prisons. People can still usually
come and
> go. This just adds to the cultist reputation of the TM movement.
>
Considering this discussion is based on hearsay, its tough to know
whether these pundits are free to go or not, whether or not the
conditions under which they live are desirable to them, or not, or
whether or not their terms of employment in the US were
misrepresented to them, or not.
