>"Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was there and I'm impressed with your memory of the event. I >don't know > whose idea it was to have the open presentation of the accounting >firms. > Probably MMY's, but if it wasn't his, you can bet your life that he >approved > it before it happened. > >
Doug writing: It was a singular moment in the TM movement. Really great theatre. Things obviously had gotten big and some thought brought the interview with the accounting firms. Money and resources were being mobilized for maharishi and `the teaching' & it also probably helped with some deals then & probably straightened out some of the flow of monies around and across borders then too. It was a time of cowboy finance on whims. Still is evidently. Became more strictly Indian business around then after. Things were being done with dedication for Maharishi and `the teaching' then. Things being given to him, things bought for him to do the things of the movement then. Had been some looking to buying the hotels in France, Switzerland and the Austrian & Italian Alps. Properties being acquired on behalf of things TMO in the United States too. Maharishi was watching what was being done and some property things popped for by wealthy people. Maharishi then really learning and figuring out the how to do real estate with other people's money and became pretty good at it. Still is evidently. -Doug in FF > > >Doug writing: > While you are still around reading & posting to FFL, were you there > at one of the international leaders meetings in Arosa Switzerland > where account execs from a couple of the big international accounting > firms were brought in and interviewed? > > One of the firms was Arthur Anderson then. Everyone in the TM org > seemed was there, the regional co-ordinators, national and > international leaders and elders of the movement like Charlie Lutes > and Walter Koch, Jerry Jarvis and such. It was one of those bi- > annual ATR's where the active teaching-TM movement congregated with > Maharishi then. > > These account execs gave their pitches for the business of the TM > movement then in opoen session. One played to the crowd and told > everyone how great they were. The other stepped back and explained > that `non-profits' need to understand their goals and mission, and > then devise accounting controls that will help them see how they are > doing. He explained that many non-profits instead judge their > success by how many glossy publications they produce etc. In the end > the first guy got the nod from the crowd. It was an amazing charade > with Maharishi on the couch at the head of the room. > > My question, who pushed to have these accounting firms come in? The > elders of the movement like Walter Koch? Charlie Lutes? Some > Europeans? They were business people and watching what was going on > then. The movement and Maharishi were in ascendancy then. I do not > think anything happened with the accounting then after. It was an > exceercise. Probably got further out-sourced to India. > > Who, in the middle, facilitated bringing those accounting firms in to > interview? Just curious about the who and dynamics then. It was > very much a produced event in the movement at that level. > > -Doug in Iowa > .
