On Jan 1, 2007, at 3:01 PM, jim_flanegin wrote:
--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
For me, a "success" would be if Maharishi put out a "call
to action" to his many students over the years and those
students did what was asked of them. Do the math -- let's
say that the TMO has (conservatively) taught 1,200,000
people to meditate over the years. But only 1200 or so
people -- at the *peak* of the pre-pundit "numbers" --
answered the call and bothered to show up for this course.
If you can't do the math, that's -- synchronistically --
one-tenth of one percent.
Nah, you're just being glib, Barry - Knowing you, if that happened,
you'd be all upset that the course participants were clones or TBs
or something. God knows there'd be *something* wrong with it... The
way you and Steve twist whatever comes out of Maharishi's mouth to
suit your purposes, there is absolutely NO WAY you would ever
declare a course of Maharishi's a success.
Even if all the course participants spontaneously began hovering?
Highly unlikely I would call that a failure.
It's interesting you know, I was talking to someone from the TMO
offlist a couple of weeks back and I mentioned to him, in all the
years I'd been here, not one person had asked me what it was I liked--
like my own "top ten list of things I liked about TM/TMO". Not once.
How come? Are you just naturally assuming there was nothing we liked
or why were you afraid to ask?
Also, it's probably worth mentioning that this is not a TM exclusive
list, so there are others here and they may comment on things posted
here.
I've always thought the best thing about the TMO was not so much TM
or any program, but the interesting and wonderful people it attracted.
