--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" wrote:>
Maharishi has definitely allowed the skewing of perception to occur
> around SV. There are really two ways to proceed in that case- Its
> like a child who wants to eat too many sweets. If you keep telling
> them "no", they never learn from experience and the desire is not
> resolved. However if they are allowed to overeat the sweets, they
> feel sick afterwards and learn from it. So the seekers come up
with
> these ideas and Maharishi lets them run with them, often straight
> into a wall. It ain't pretty sometimes, but it is effective as a
> teaching method towards self-sufficiency.
>
--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:>
Apparently you haven't worked around Maharishi. He's the one who
comes up
> with most of the ideas. He says jump and everyone else says, "How
high?" Of
> course, sometimes others come up with stuff. So theoretically,
someone may
> have suggested that the movement get into SV, but if so, Maharishi
then
> threw his considerable energy and authority behind the idea and
spent
> countless hours dwelling on various related plans and projects.
>
I have worked for his organization though. He has two aims as I see
it. One is to get the knowledge out there, and the second is to
explore its fullness and exhaust it as a desire in has followers. I
think he does a great job of both.
