--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "dhamiltony2k5" > <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > I have been out traveling from FF to spiritual places out > > West and recently out East, and it is informative to hear > > people in reaction to Maharishi when you go other places. > > This strikes me as an excellent exercise in the > "healthy mind challenging its own assumptions" > credo that distinguishes FFL from other TM-related > sites and most of its participants from TBs. One > of the things I think we all agree on is that if > one bases one's opinion of Maharishi and TM *solely* > on what one hears from *within* the TM movement, > one gets a rather different picture than one would > get if one examined feedback from a broader sampling > within the larger spiritual community. > > One Web resource that is fun, although rather > subjective, is "Sarlo's Guru Rating Service" at: > http://www.globalserve.net/~sarlo/Ratings.htm > > Its value (if it has one) is that it is a > compilation of feedback from *lots* of different > individuals and sources on various spiritual > teachers, past and present. For each one (currently > over 1500), "Sarlo" presents the teacher's basic > path (A=Advaita, B=Buddhist, C=Channels/New Age, > D=Devotional, E=Earth Medicine, F=Fringe, > G=Gnostic/Scientific, H=Humour, I=Indian, > L=Literature, M=Middle Path, N=Nonduals, O=Other/misc, > P=Perennials, Q=Quasi-Christian, S=Sufi, T=Tibetan, > X=Disappeared, Y=Yoga, Z=Zen), feedback he's received > pro and con, a list of sympathetic and anti links, > and an overall rating. His ratings are: > > *** = the greats, helping many > ** 1/2 = limited, some handicaps, or maybe not yet full >stature > ** = very limited, narrow approach or ideology, or still >developing > * 1/2 = suspect but on balance positive > * = suspect > 1/2 = bogus, may have some value, who knows > 0 = worse than bogus, no redeeming value > Unrated = too new, old or retiring, not enough info, or >a "teacher" type > > Just for fun, here's his entry on Maharishi (rating = *): >
* = suspect? A half star above, bogus? Would Consumers Report rate it? Even now, where have all the TM teachers, governors and meditators gone? Does that say something about its (TM's) reliability or (TMorg) service department?
