--- gullible fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I remember when Doug came to > > MIU and we had a big assembly in the dome where he > > presented the whole plan about vedaland. > > I remember that night. Packed dome. Very exciting > night. One of the best nights and one of the best > times to be on CCP and living on campus at MUM. It > was > 1987, I believe, although I was also there rounding > in > the summer of 88 and the summer of 89. > > > We all were making fun of the idea (we all > > were long time TMer's) knowing that it never would > > be > > actualized. Just a pipe dream. > > Like I said, it was a very exciting night for many > of > the sidhas attending the event. We were still > expecting all of MMY's grand plans would come to > pass. > I had none of the inside scoop that you and others > had, and I was unaware any jadedness existed at all > among anyone who would still be in the dome for any > reason. Like the caption on the X-Files UFO poster > said, "I want to believe".
I just had passed through that "I want to believe" stage a little bit earlier than you. Those were very good years at MIU and being on TSR. '82 to around '90. > > --- Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > --- shempmcgurk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > snip > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I remember seeing a Canadian TV news report on > > Doug > > > and Vedaland and > > > the thing that struck me about the coverage was > a > > > clip of Doug > > > sitting beneath a tree with some other TM > > > investment/principal/sucker > > > discussing the draft of the design of the > > letterhead > > > to be used on > > > Vedaland stationary and Doug saying: "Maharishi > is > > > going to love > > > this!" > > > > > > To me, that said it all: no substance, all > flash. > > > Maharishi getting > > > caught up in the minute details of something as > > > insignificant and > > > unimportant as how a letterhead or logo looks > > rather > > > than the actual > > > reality of the project itself. More fun in > making > > > the MIU catalog or > > > building the model for the world's tallest > > building > > > or creating gold- > > > painted broshures of world governments than > > actually > > > following > > > through on the reality of the project. > > > > > > And then, of course, Maharishi's ADHD would kick > > in, > > > he'd totally > > > abandon the project of the moment and move on to > > the > > > next, great, big > > > thing. > > > > Very interesting point. It certainly does seem > that > > MMY is much more interested by the idea than the > > actuality of the idea. I remember when Doug came > to > > MIU and we had a big assembly in the dome where he > > presented the whole plan about vedaland. I was > > running > > a camera for MIU video and was talking through the > > intercom system with the other camera people and > the > > director. We all were making fun of the idea (we > all > > were long time TMer's) knowing that it never would > > be > > actualized. Just a pipe dream. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > > > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > > > Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.9.0/851 > - > > > Release Date: > > > 6/16/2007 > > > > 12:50 PM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Or go to: > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > > > and click 'Join This Group!' > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search > > that gives answers, not web links. > > > http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Or go to: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > > and click 'Join This Group!' > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 > hotels > in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your > fit. > http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > === message truncated === ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469
