--- In [email protected], "dhamiltony2k5"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >"Rick Archer" rick@ 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
It's my contention that the TMO is not a teaching organization in the
west
anymore. It has transformed itself into a fund raising and real estate
organization.
Teaching seems only incidental. A few in the PR barraged press are
beginning to
comment on this as well. Are there people leaning TM anywhere in the
world?
JohnY
>
>
> >
> >
> >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
> >
> .
>
