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

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