--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's the first time I looked at it. I don't recall seeing "Dr" in > front of his name before. I wonder what his doctorate is in? > Management would be my guess.
Either that or his Ph.D. could have come from the same place that John Gray's and Barbara DeAngelis' and many of the former-TMers-who-joined-the-New-Age-movement's Ph.D.s came from, the University of P.O. Box 2000. :-) Send in your money, get your Ph.D. in the mail the next day. Or he could have a real Ph.D. I dunno. > I'll bet you this will be Mahesh's replacement. Pictures of the > Brahmasthan of India already show his picture side-by-side M's and > TMO figureheads seem to shower him with empty praise. He's the new > feet to kiss. I honestly doubt that. I suspect that one of the purposes of this advertisement (besides soliciting money, of course) is to make the point that these donations will go to Girish Varma, *no matter who else is nominally in charge of the TM movement*. In other words, he'll never be "Maharishi's replace- ment." That will be someone on the level of a Tony Nader or a Bevan Morris or a John Hagelin. Whoever is chosen will be the "front man" for the organiza- tion, both in public and for the remaining flock of TMers. They will *announce* the new policies and products as they appear, but it's my guess that they won't really be creating the new policies and products. That'll be the so-called TM Indian Mafia, who will also be the people collecting all the money, while the "front men" get just enough to keep them in clean robes and crowns and bagpipes. I could be all wrong about this, of course, but that's really my intuitive feeling, gazing at this latest "product announcement." It makes it pretty clear that Girish is the "source" of the TMO's latest and greatest product (young pundit boys), and that he is going to be the recipient of any funds donated towards that effort. All in all, it's a pretty fascinating ad. I wonder how it's being received by the faithful who are on the course. Do they even *notice* that Maharishi's uncle is being positioned so prominently and that young Indian boys are essentially being offered up for sale by him, or is the vision of pure young pundit boys chanting to change the world the only thing they can see? Fascinating, whatever the story turns out to be...
