On Dec 17, 2006, at 9:28 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > --- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> On Dec 17, 2006, at 9:09 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: >> >>>> Every resource online says exactly the same thing. In >>>> fact, if you look at the design of the oldest cities >>>> in India, you'll find they are laid out exactly that >>>> way. The ruins were uncovered some years ago. >>> >>> So you're trying to make the point that ancient >>> Indians were just as much control freaks and just >>> as out of touch with nature as Maharishi is? :-) >> >> I think he just gave a great explanation of why India's been >> such a mess for so long--recycling used ideas that obviously >> don't work, while refusing to look at anything that might >> work better and might actually be in tune with nature. It's >> all part of the mindset which has promoted ideas like the >> caste system and mass starvation--they obviously don't work >> either, but a few still cling stubbornly to the idea that >> someday everyone else will see the light. > > It's one of the things that makes me happy I left > the TM movement before all this "If it's 'Vedic' > it's good" stuff hit the fan.
Right. The crap that's gone on since then gives even bad ideas a good name. Sal
