--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > A "movement" only "moves" when it has members *to* move. > > > If you've systematically driven them all away for decades > > > and *then* ask them to move and they don't, I think that > > > the sane thing to do would be to step back and rethink > > > all that you've done to *destroy* your own movement. The > > > TMO, obviously, doesn't think that way; they'd rather hire > > > kids from India so that they can pretend they still > > > have one. > > > > If they truly believe the course is necessary to > > save the world from imminent disaster, it would be > > folly for them to step back and rethink their previous > > actions rather than do whatever they could to get > > a group together as quickly as possible. > > There is a point that you always ignore. *If* that > is what they truly believe, why did they not "get > a group together" years ago?
I don't know, but it's kind of a silly question because there are so many possible answers. I'm just pointing out that yours isn't the only conceivable answer, as you appear to believe it is. They had the money. > They *have* the money. But they refuse to put > their *own* money where their mouth is. The *only* > reason this course is "achieving the numbers" is > that they suckered someone *else* into paying for it. > > If Maharishi and the TMO really believed in the ME, > they could have paid for a "test group" DECADES ago. > They did not. They still *have* not. They only > "believe" in the efficacy of group practice if > someone ELSE pays for it. MMY has always wanted somebody else--governments, other institutions--to pay for it so they would have an investment in its success. If it's purely a TMO production, it's much less likely to be taken seriously, even if the results are positive. That they're having TM donors pay for it this time suggests to me that they think it's more of an emergency situation than ever before.
