Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: OK, here's the poop
Dear Brothers/Sisters, The Solar Ingress into Sidereal Aries is a day of great rejoicing for the philosophically oriented. Happy Vishu and may the Absolute Self, whose symbol the Sun is, bless you with Grace Divine ! Vishu is derived from Vishuvath Vrittha, which means the Celestial Equator. Web Astrologer G Kumar http://www.eastrovedica.com - Original Message - From: Bob Brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 12:57 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: OK, here's the poop --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emailed to me on the side: Got a long voicemail from someone on the course. Anyhoo...Turns out the whole thrust of this 'recertification' seems to be marketing. Within the next 2-3 months there will be 500 storefronts in malls. Each one will have all the MAPI and movement products, a largescreen TV with the M channel, a children's corner, a spa, a TM center. There's more I can't remember. He wanted to know the 5 high end malls in the area. They will hire 4 people working in each store plus a manager. A man and woman from the course will be supervising. AND GET THIS. MAHARISHI WILL BE PAYING FOR EVERYTHING. ** If the TMO is looking for high-end malls, that means they're not going to do the cheap strip mall option, and they're going to pay through the nose, like $36/sq.ft (plus maybe another $10/sq.ft. for security, utilities, taxes, etc. -- http://www.icsc.org/srch/sct/sct1103/ ): http://retailtrafficmag.com/mag/retail_bad_news_retailers/ In addition, renters at malls usually have to pay a percentage of sales, something I doubt the TMO is going to be happy about: http://retailtrafficmag.com/mag/retail_hot_topic_long/ In order to have a spa with separate facilities for men and women, plus a MAPI store, plus a TM center, it sounds like you would need about 2000 sq. ft. -- at $36/sq.ft. plus taxes etc, that's about $7500/month. Plus two TM teachers at $4K/month each, one manager at $5K/month, and 4 other employees at $3K/month, plus payroll taxes. Total for rent and salaries: about $40K/month (plus whatever the mall owners collect as percentage of TM store sales). Income from MAPI products sales could not amount to much -- many of the items are so overpriced (like honey at $50/lb.) or of little interest to the general public, so these sales won't amount to much, and if meditators start to shop for their MAPI products at these mall stores, it would be merely cannibalizing sales from the MAPI.com web site. The mall store will have to rely on the income from the spa and from TM instruction, shooting for one spa treatment a day at $645/day (taking this figure from The Raj's price list: http://www.theraj.com/rajoffers/panchakarma.html ). But the Raj has always lost money, even in a town with 2000 meditators, many of whom are rich and can afford these pricey treatments. And, outside of Fairfield, there are many other spas, even competing Ayurveda spas, that offer similar treatments, often at lower prices, and usually in more attractive surroundings than a tiny room in a mall. Initiating one person every day into TM every three days at $2500, in addition to the one per day for the spa treatment, would bring in enough money to break even ($645 x 30= $19350 plus $2500 x 10= $25000, for a total of $44350/month), and a handful of these mall stores may be able to meet these goals, which have to see a spa treatment and one initiation every 3 days indefinitely to stay solvent. But when you multiply the 500 proposed stores by these numbers for spa treatments and initiations, it amounts to 15,000 people a month in the USA seeking TM spa treatments -- a very unlikely figure -- and 5,000 people a month starting TM, a figure which has not been remotely approached since the wave of initiations in the 70s after the Merv Griffin shows (when 50,000/month were learning TM). And I don't see any reason why a different weighting of needed numbers -- more initiations into TM and fewer spa treatments, or vice versa -- could come up with a formula that could work for these mall stores, since there is just not much happening for the TM movement either in terms of people learning TM or buying Maharishi Ayurveda treatment. Somebody should call in a consultant from Booz Allen Hamilton or some other top consulting firm and bounce these ideas off somebody reasonable before they commit to long-term leases (which would probably be required since the spa would require extensive modification to the leased mall space that would not be suitable for many other applications) on a proposition that can't possibly work. Bob http://geocities.com/bbrigante/updates.html To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: OK, here's the poop
Is that today? Wow, blow me away. I put on my 1 and 11 mukhi beads today when I usually don't wear them very often. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 10:47 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: OK, here's the poop Dear Brothers/Sisters,The Solar Ingress into Sidereal Aries is a day of great rejoicing for thephilosophically oriented.Happy Vishu and may the Absolute Self, whose symbol the Sun is, bless youwith Grace Divine ! Vishu is derived from Vishuvath Vrittha, which means theCelestial Equator.Web Astrologer G Kumarhttp://www.eastrovedica.com- Original Message -From: Bob Brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.comSent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 12:57 PMSubject: [FairfieldLife] Re: OK, here's the poop --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emailed to me on the side: Got a long voicemail from someone on the course.Anyhoo...Turns out the whole thrust of this 'recertification' seems to be marketing. Within the next 2-3 months there will be 500 storefronts in malls. Each one will have all the MAPI and movement products, a largescreen TV with the M channel, a children's corner, a spa, a TM center. There's more I can't remember. He wanted to know the 5 high end malls in the area. They will hire 4 people working in each store plus a manager. A man and woman from the course will be supervising. AND GET THIS. MAHARISHI WILL BE PAYING FOR EVERYTHING. ** If the TMO is looking for high-end malls, that means they're not going to do the cheap strip mall option, and they're going to pay through the nose, like $36/sq.ft (plus maybe another $10/sq.ft. for security, utilities, taxes, etc. -- http://www.icsc.org/srch/sct/sct1103/ ): http://retailtrafficmag.com/mag/retail_bad_news_retailers/ In addition, renters at malls usually have to pay a percentage of sales, something I doubt the TMO is going to be happy about: http://retailtrafficmag.com/mag/retail_hot_topic_long/ In order to have a spa with separate facilities for men and women, plus a MAPI store, plus a TM center, it sounds like you would need about 2000 sq. ft. -- at $36/sq.ft. plus taxes etc, that's about $7500/month. Plus two TM teachers at $4K/month each, one manager at $5K/month, and 4 other employees at $3K/month, plus payroll taxes. Total for rent and salaries: about $40K/month (plus whatever the mall owners collect as percentage of TM store sales). Income from MAPI products sales could not amount to much -- many of the items are so overpriced (like honey at $50/lb.) or of little interest to the general public, so these sales won't amount to much, and if meditators start to shop for their MAPI products at these mall stores, it would be merely cannibalizing sales from the MAPI.com web site. The mall store will have to rely on the income from the spa and from TM instruction, shooting for one spa treatment a day at $645/day (taking this figure from The Raj's price list: http://www.theraj.com/rajoffers/panchakarma.html ). But the Raj has always lost money, even in a town with 2000 meditators, many of whom are rich and can afford these pricey treatments. And, outside of Fairfield, there are many other spas, even competing Ayurveda spas, that offer similar treatments, often at lower prices, and usually in more attractive surroundings than a tiny room in a mall. Initiating one person every day into TM every three days at $2500, in addition to the one per day for the spa treatment, would bring in enough money to break even ($645 x 30= $19350 plus $2500 x 10= $25000, for a total of $44350/month), and a handful of these mall stores may be able to meet these goals, which have to see a spa treatment and one initiation every 3 days indefinitely to stay solvent. But when you multiply the 500 proposed stores by these numbers for spa treatments and initiations, it amounts to 15,000 people a month in the USA seeking TM spa treatments -- a very unlikely figure -- and 5,000 people a month starting TM, a figure which has not been remotely approached since the wave of initiations in the 70s after the Merv Griffin shows (when 50,000/month were learning TM). And I don't see any reason why a different weighting of needed numbers -- more initiations into TM and fewer spa treatments, or vice versa -- could come up with a formula that could work for these mall stores, since there is just not much happening for the TM movement either in terms of people learning TM or buying Maharishi Ayurveda treatment. Somebody should call in a consultant from Booz Allen Hamilton or some other top consulting firm and bounce these ideas off somebody reasonable before they commit to long-term
[FairfieldLife] Re: OK, here's the poop
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emailed to me on the side: Got a long voicemail from someone on the course. Anyhoo...Turns out the whole thrust of this 'recertification' seems to be marketing. Within the next 2-3 months there will be 500 storefronts in malls. Each one will have all the MAPI and movement products, a largescreen TV with the M channel, a children's corner, a spa, a TM center. There's more I can't remember. He wanted to know the 5 high end malls in the area. They will hire 4 people working in each store plus a manager. A man and woman from the course will be supervising. AND GET THIS. MAHARISHI WILL BE PAYING FOR EVERYTHING. ** If the TMO is looking for high-end malls, that means they're not going to do the cheap strip mall option, and they're going to pay through the nose, like $36/sq.ft (plus maybe another $10/sq.ft. for security, utilities, taxes, etc. -- http://www.icsc.org/srch/sct/sct1103/ ): http://retailtrafficmag.com/mag/retail_bad_news_retailers/ In addition, renters at malls usually have to pay a percentage of sales, something I doubt the TMO is going to be happy about: http://retailtrafficmag.com/mag/retail_hot_topic_long/ In order to have a spa with separate facilities for men and women, plus a MAPI store, plus a TM center, it sounds like you would need about 2000 sq. ft. -- at $36/sq.ft. plus taxes etc, that's about $7500/month. Plus two TM teachers at $4K/month each, one manager at $5K/month, and 4 other employees at $3K/month, plus payroll taxes. Total for rent and salaries: about $40K/month (plus whatever the mall owners collect as percentage of TM store sales). Income from MAPI products sales could not amount to much -- many of the items are so overpriced (like honey at $50/lb.) or of little interest to the general public, so these sales won't amount to much, and if meditators start to shop for their MAPI products at these mall stores, it would be merely cannibalizing sales from the MAPI.com web site. The mall store will have to rely on the income from the spa and from TM instruction, shooting for one spa treatment a day at $645/day (taking this figure from The Raj's price list: http://www.theraj.com/rajoffers/panchakarma.html ). But the Raj has always lost money, even in a town with 2000 meditators, many of whom are rich and can afford these pricey treatments. And, outside of Fairfield, there are many other spas, even competing Ayurveda spas, that offer similar treatments, often at lower prices, and usually in more attractive surroundings than a tiny room in a mall. Initiating one person every day into TM every three days at $2500, in addition to the one per day for the spa treatment, would bring in enough money to break even ($645 x 30= $19350 plus $2500 x 10= $25000, for a total of $44350/month), and a handful of these mall stores may be able to meet these goals, which have to see a spa treatment and one initiation every 3 days indefinitely to stay solvent. But when you multiply the 500 proposed stores by these numbers for spa treatments and initiations, it amounts to 15,000 people a month in the USA seeking TM spa treatments -- a very unlikely figure -- and 5,000 people a month starting TM, a figure which has not been remotely approached since the wave of initiations in the 70s after the Merv Griffin shows (when 50,000/month were learning TM). And I don't see any reason why a different weighting of needed numbers -- more initiations into TM and fewer spa treatments, or vice versa -- could come up with a formula that could work for these mall stores, since there is just not much happening for the TM movement either in terms of people learning TM or buying Maharishi Ayurveda treatment. Somebody should call in a consultant from Booz Allen Hamilton or some other top consulting firm and bounce these ideas off somebody reasonable before they commit to long-term leases (which would probably be required since the spa would require extensive modification to the leased mall space that would not be suitable for many other applications) on a proposition that can't possibly work. Bob http://geocities.com/bbrigante/updates.html 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: OK, here's the poop
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emailed to me on the side: Got a long voicemail from someone on the course. Anyhoo...Turns out the whole thrust of this 'recertification' seems to be marketing. Within the next 2-3 months there will be 500 storefronts in malls. Each one will have all the MAPI and movement products, a largescreen TV with the M channel, a children's corner, a spa, a TM center. There's more I can't remember. He wanted to know the 5 high end malls in the area. They will hire 4 people working in each store plus a manager. A man and woman from the course will be supervising. AND GET THIS. MAHARISHI WILL BE PAYING FOR EVERYTHING. ** If the TMO is looking for high-end malls, that means they're not going to do the cheap strip mall option, and they're going to pay through the nose, like $36/sq.ft (plus maybe another $10/sq.ft. for security, utilities, taxes, etc. -- http://www.icsc.org/srch/sct/sct1103/ ): http://retailtrafficmag.com/mag/retail_bad_news_retailers/ In addition, renters at malls usually have to pay a percentage of sales, something I doubt the TMO is going to be happy about: http://retailtrafficmag.com/mag/retail_hot_topic_long/ In order to have a spa with separate facilities for men and women, plus a MAPI store, plus a TM center, it sounds like you would need about 2000 sq. ft. -- at $36/sq.ft. plus taxes etc, that's about $7500/month. Plus two TM teachers at $4K/month each, one manager at $5K/month, and 4 other employees at $3K/month, plus payroll taxes. Total for rent and salaries: about $40K/month (plus whatever the mall owners collect as percentage of TM store sales). Income from MAPI products sales could not amount to much -- many of the items are so overpriced (like honey at $50/lb.) or of little interest to the general public, so these sales won't amount to much, and if meditators start to shop for their MAPI products at these mall stores, it would be merely cannibalizing sales from the MAPI.com web site. The mall store will have to rely on the income from the spa and from TM instruction, shooting for one spa treatment a day at $645/day (taking this figure from The Raj's price list: http://www.theraj.com/rajoffers/panchakarma.html ). But the Raj has always lost money, even in a town with 2000 meditators, many of whom are rich and can afford these pricey treatments. And, outside of Fairfield, there are many other spas, even competing Ayurveda spas, that offer similar treatments, often at lower prices, and usually in more attractive surroundings than a tiny room in a mall. Initiating one person every day into TM every three days at $2500, in addition to the one per day for the spa treatment, would bring in enough money to break even ($645 x 30= $19350 plus $2500 x 10= $25000, for a total of $44350/month), and a handful of these mall stores may be able to meet these goals, which have to see a daily spa treatment and one initiation every 3 days indefinitely to stay solvent. But when you multiply the 500 proposed stores by these numbers for spa treatments and initiations, it amounts to 15,000 people a month in the USA seeking TM spa treatments -- a very unlikely figure -- and 5,000 people a month starting TM, a figure which has not been remotely approached since the wave of initiations in the 70s after the Merv Griffin shows (when 50,000/month were learning TM). And I don't see any reason why a different weighting of needed numbers -- more initiations into TM and fewer spa treatments, or vice versa -- could come up with a formula that could work for these mall stores, since there is just not much happening for the TM movement either in terms of people learning TM or buying Maharishi Ayurveda treatment. Even if MMY is planning on doing something spectacular, miraculous, to interest people in TM, these mall stores won't work with large crowds. You would want a warehouse or stadium to teach large numbers of people if somebody did actually levitate and end up on the evening news. I just don't see any scenario playing out that would justify this mall store plan. Somebody from Vedic City should call in a consultant from Booz Allen Hamilton or some other top consulting firm and bounce these ideas off somebody reasonable before they commit to long-term leases (which would probably be required since the spa would require extensive modification to the leased mall space that would not be suitable for many other applications) on a proposition that can't possibly work. Bob http://geocities.com/bbrigante/updates.html 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
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--- Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/9/05 10:02 PM, Rory Goff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you worship them? Milk, ghee, sandal paste, mantras? That really gets them humming. Susan Chumsky had several dozen of them in her house in Fairfield many moons ago. That place was cookin'! Susan happens to be in town right now for the first time in years. Wow! Good for her. Is she giving her seminar? I hope the thought police don't hassle her too much. -Peter 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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--- akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- rudra_joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shiva will take care of any incorrect vastu. -I agree! that's how I got by. I have about 32 Siva Lingas at my house. Or used to but I gave some away. Do you worship them? Milk, ghee, sandal paste, mantras? That really gets them humming. Susan Chumsky had several dozen of them in her house in Fairfield many moons ago. That place was cookin'! just please don't ask about the mirror above her bed in berkeley days-- or the empty cans of whipped cream. I already know about those! 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Lets also not forget the advanced technique teachers from India that want to be taken to a titty bar! Oh do tell! Now this is some juicy Sat yuga gossip! A left-handed tantric advanced TM technique teacher from India. -Peter __ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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--- akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just please don't ask about the mirror above her bed in berkeley days-- or the empty cans of whipped cream. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I already know about those! I don't but I am not asking. Susan is who she is -- perfect :-) 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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In a message dated 4/10/05 7:10:46 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lets also not forget the advanced technique teachers from India that want to be taken to a titty bar!Oh do tell! Now this is some juicy Sat yuga gossip! Aleft-handed tantric advanced TM technique teacher fromIndia.-Peter I have heard some juicy ones over the years about advanced technique teachers from India. One friend hosting them in her house asked them when they planned to meditate and they just laughed and said Oh! we don't meditate, we just give the techniques! Another friend hosting some different ones was asked if he would take them to a strip tease club. They might have been jyotishis though because it was two or three men from India on movement business. Anyway it makes you wonder. I'm sure there are others out there with their share of stories. 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 To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: OK, here's the poop
Another friend hosting some different ones was asked if he would take them to a strip tease club. They might have been jyotishis though because it was two or three men from India on movement business. They were probably Gandharvans. Those are PARTY guys ! 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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In a message dated 4/10/05 10:03:55 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another friend hosting some different ones was asked if he would take them to a strip tease club. They might have been jyotishis though because it was two or three men from India on movement business. They were probably Gandharvans. Those are PARTY guys ! You're probably right, I can just hear one sing out when getting a lap dance! 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 To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 4/10/05 10:03:55 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another friend hosting some different ones was asked if he would take them to a strip tease club. They might have been jyotishis though because it was two or three men from India on movement business. They were probably Gandharvans. Those are PARTY guys ! You're probably right, I can just hear one sing out when getting a lap dance! Women like the tabla players. Think about it. :-) 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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You're probably right, I can just hear one sing out when getting a lap dance! ---Any real tantrika is into oral sex. 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 To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
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Bob, I'm always amazed with your searching the web skills to find related websites and articles to various topics. If you and others don't mind sharing some of their tips or point me to an article about the topic. I have interest/need to do my searching more effectively. Do you just google or using some more advanced tools or technique in your searching? ty. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emailed to me on the side: Got a long voicemail from someone on the course. Anyhoo...Turns out the whole thrust of this 'recertification' seems to be marketing. Within the next 2-3 months there will be 500 storefronts in malls. Each one will have all the MAPI and movement products, a largescreen TV with the M channel, a children's corner, a spa, a TM center. There's more I can't remember. He wanted to know the 5 high end malls in the area. They will hire 4 people working in each store plus a manager. A man and woman from the course will be supervising. AND GET THIS. MAHARISHI WILL BE PAYING FOR EVERYTHING. ** If the TMO is looking for high-end malls, that means they're not going to do the cheap strip mall option, and they're going to pay through the nose, like $36/sq.ft (plus maybe another $10/sq.ft. for security, utilities, taxes, etc. -- http://www.icsc.org/srch/sct/sct1103/ ): http://retailtrafficmag.com/mag/retail_bad_news_retailers/ In addition, renters at malls usually have to pay a percentage of sales, something I doubt the TMO is going to be happy about: http://retailtrafficmag.com/mag/retail_hot_topic_long/ In order to have a spa with separate facilities for men and women, plus a MAPI store, plus a TM center, it sounds like you would need about 2000 sq. ft. -- at $36/sq.ft. plus taxes etc, that's about $7500/month. Plus two TM teachers at $4K/month each, one manager at $5K/month, and 4 other employees at $3K/month, plus payroll taxes. Total for rent and salaries: about $40K/month (plus whatever the mall owners collect as percentage of TM store sales). Income from MAPI products sales could not amount to much -- many of the items are so overpriced (like honey at $50/lb.) or of little interest to the general public, so these sales won't amount to much, and if meditators start to shop for their MAPI products at these mall stores, it would be merely cannibalizing sales from the MAPI.com web site. The mall store will have to rely on the income from the spa and from TM instruction, shooting for one spa treatment a day at $645/day (taking this figure from The Raj's price list: http://www.theraj.com/rajoffers/panchakarma.html ). But the Raj has always lost money, even in a town with 2000 meditators, many of whom are rich and can afford these pricey treatments. And, outside of Fairfield, there are many other spas, even competing Ayurveda spas, that offer similar treatments, often at lower prices, and usually in more attractive surroundings than a tiny room in a mall. Initiating one person every day into TM every three days at $2500, in addition to the one per day for the spa treatment, would bring in enough money to break even ($645 x 30= $19350 plus $2500 x 10= $25000, for a total of $44350/month), and a handful of these mall stores may be able to meet these goals, which have to see a daily spa treatment and one initiation every 3 days indefinitely to stay solvent. But when you multiply the 500 proposed stores by these numbers for spa treatments and initiations, it amounts to 15,000 people a month in the USA seeking TM spa treatments -- a very unlikely figure -- and 5,000 people a month starting TM, a figure which has not been remotely approached since the wave of initiations in the 70s after the Merv Griffin shows (when 50,000/month were learning TM). And I don't see any reason why a different weighting of needed numbers -- more initiations into TM and fewer spa treatments, or vice versa -- could come up with a formula that could work for these mall stores, since there is just not much happening for the TM movement either in terms of people learning TM or buying Maharishi Ayurveda treatment. Even if MMY is planning on doing something spectacular, miraculous, to interest people in TM, these mall stores won't work with large crowds. You would want a warehouse or stadium to teach large numbers of people if somebody did actually levitate and end up on the evening news. I just don't see any scenario playing out that would justify this mall store plan. Somebody from Vedic City should call in a consultant from Booz Allen Hamilton or some other top consulting firm and bounce these ideas off somebody reasonable before they commit to long-term leases (which would probably be required since the spa would require extensive modification to the
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on 4/10/05 12:45 PM, anonymousff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob, I'm always amazed with your searching the web skills to find related websites and articles to various topics. If you and others don't mind sharing some of their tips or point me to an article about the topic. I have interest/need to do my searching more effectively. Do you just google or using some more advanced tools or technique in your searching? One thing he may be using is Google alerts, or something like it: http://www.google.com/alerts. You can set up as many alerts as you like on various topics and you'll be notified when news stories on those topics appear anywhere in the world. 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: OK, here's the poop
In a message dated 4/10/05 12:36:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You're probably right, I can just hear one sing out when getting a lap dance! ---Any real tantrika is into oral sex. Or is that Tan tricker? 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 To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 4/10/05 7:10:46 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lets also not forget the advanced technique teachers from India that want to be taken to a titty bar! Oh do tell! Now this is some juicy Sat yuga gossip! A left-handed tantric advanced TM technique teacher from India. -Peter I have heard some juicy ones over the years about advanced technique teachers from India. One friend hosting them in her house asked them when they planned to meditate and they just laughed and said Oh! we don't meditate, we just give the techniques! Another friend hosting some different ones was asked if he would take them to a strip tease club. They might have been jyotishis though because it was two or three men from India on movement business. Anyway it makes you wonder. I'm sure there are others out there with their share of stories. ** Many years ago, when people would complain to MMY about the behavior of TM teachers, MMY would say Even a sick man can open a health food store. Because TM and the Siddhis are mechanical techniques, as long as the teacher memorizes a few simple instructions and imparts them accurately, there is no need for the teacher to be any good at all or even to be a meditator, for that matter. Given the low state of human awareness everywhere on the globe, it's a good thing that this mechanical wisdom from the Vedas is being made available by MMY, because nothing else could work on a large-scale. 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob, I'm always amazed with your searching the web skills to find related websites and articles to various topics. If you and others don't mind sharing some of their tips or point me to an article about the topic. I have interest/need to do my searching more effectively. Do you just google or using some more advanced tools or technique in your searching? ty. Strictly google-eyes, using at first keywords that will get me the most returns, then speed-reading the summaries on the return, and only using more restrictive keywords if the first pass is not productive. Google's site ranking algorithms almost always mean I don't have to look too far: http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/10/05 12:45 PM, anonymousff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob, I'm always amazed with your searching the web skills to find related websites and articles to various topics. If you and others don't mind sharing some of their tips or point me to an article about the topic. I have interest/need to do my searching more effectively. Do you just google or using some more advanced tools or technique in your searching? One thing he may be using is Google alerts, or something like it: http://www.google.com/alerts. You can set up as many alerts as you like on various topics and you'll be notified when news stories on those topics appear anywhere in the world. I've got the Google News page bookmarked: http://news.google.com/ You can customize Google newspage to display news containing the keywords of your choice, so I've got several columns of news which post very quickly when keywords having to do with the TM movement show up in newspaper articles anywhere in the world, including the Fairfield Ledger. It's a little handier to use than Google alerts,IMO. 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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--- crukstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- rudra_joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shiva will take care of any incorrect vastu. -I agree! that's how I got by. I have about 32 Siva Lingas at my house. Or used to but I gave some away. Do you worship them? Milk, ghee, sandal paste, mantras? That really gets them humming. Susan Chumsky had several dozen of them in her house in Fairfield many moons ago. That place was cookin'! just please don't ask about the mirror above her bed in berkeley days-- or the empty cans of whipped cream. I already know about those! Oh yeah? Well I'll bet none of you braggarts knew about the Daffy Duck videos and the tootsie roll pops! Now that was some wild stuff. Now, that I don't know! 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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So, in addition to the 4 employees and one manager, and a governor couple supervising, each one of the 500 mall stores will get one pundit?-No, they're all pundits. 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 To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip AND GET THIS. MAHARISHI WILL BE PAYING FOR EVERYTHING. These are the critical words. Let's just see how this part looks after a few months. L B S 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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If this new marketing plan even has more than a 2 month life span, having MMY pay for everything is the ONLY way this has any chance of working, because the teachers won't have anywhere near the money required to lease mall space. It sounds to me as if they are copying the Aveda cosmetics shops, which I believe have been fairly successful. ONly the TMO wants our TM stores to be higher end than Aveda products. That is the key issue here - will our ultra expensive stuff find a market in the malls, or fail as did Tm at $2500/ person. Putting anything to sell in a mall with that great exposure is not a bad idea. I wonder if MMY has decided to spend a bunch of the money in his bank accounts on a last ditch effort to create a resurrgence of interest, to leave a lasting impression before he goes. What a contrast: they now say the dignity of the profession of teaching TM requires only full-time people (there is some truth to the idea that it seems more trustworthy and significant to learn to meditate from someone dedicated to it full-time) and yet it will be available in malls right alongside Old Navy stores or Bloomingdale's and the TMO's own cosmetics, herbs and honey. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip AND GET THIS. MAHARISHI WILL BE PAYING FOR EVERYTHING. These are the critical words. Let's just see how this part looks after a few months. L B S 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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snip goes. What a contrast: they now say the dignity of the profession of teaching TM requires only full-time people (there is some truth to the idea that it seems more trustworthy and significant to learn to meditate from someone dedicated to it full- time) Yes , but if the thing doesn't work the teachers will be poorer than ever. Why would a shopping mall give more interest than say, and internet site, or a TM center, or an a large ad. in a local paper. I can't see it myself. Unless Maharishi drops the price to a much lower price. I think this is what he is planning to do. 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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Leave it to the TMO to further the cause of Spiritual Materialism with Mall Meditation. They preach Sat yuga, give you the Kali Yuga. Yeah Guru Dev! Anyhoo...Turns out the whole thrust of this 'recertification' seems to be marketing. Within the next 2-3 months there will be 500 storefronts in malls. Each one will have all the MAPI and movement products, a largescreen TV with the M channel, a children's corner, a spa, a TM center. There's more I can't remember. He wanted to know the 5 high end malls in the area. They will hire 4 people working in each store plus a manager. A man and woman from the course will be supervising. AND GET THIS. MAHARISHI WILL BE PAYING FOR EVERYTHING. 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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They preach Sat yuga, give you the Kali Yuga.Yeah Guru Dev! -Not even vastu correct strip malls. 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 To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
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on 4/9/05 7:57 AM, wayback71 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this new marketing plan even has more than a 2 month life span, Can you rent mall space for 2 months, or do you have to sign longer leases? 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rudra_joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Though he built Alzheimers right into the structure of the TMO. What were we talking about again? I forget. 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/9/05 8:04 AM, off_world_beings at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes , but if the thing doesn't work the teachers will be poorer than ever. Why would a shopping mall give more interest than say, and internet site, or a TM center, or an a large ad. in a local paper. I can't see it myself. Unless Maharishi drops the price to a much lower price. I think this is what he is planning to do. Another issue is, are these stores going to suit the mall mentality, or are they going to be kind of weird, with pictures of King Tony and all? Exactly, and incense and male vocal ghandarva ved.which sounds awful to most Westerners. 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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--- Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/9/05 7:57 AM, wayback71 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this new marketing plan even has more than a 2 month life span, Can you rent mall space for 2 months, or do you have to sign longer leases? Commercial real estate usually leases out in one, three, or five years at a time. Of course I'm sure someone would lease space for a shorter time, but it will be quite expensive. Also you can't cut and run on a commercial lease when things don't workout. -Peter 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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--- rudra_joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They preach Sat yuga, give you the Kali Yuga. Yeah Guru Dev! -Not even vastu correct strip malls. Shiva will take care of any incorrect vastu. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/9/05 8:04 AM, off_world_beings at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes , but if the thing doesn't work the teachers will be poorer than ever. Why would a shopping mall give more interest than say, and internet site, or a TM center, or an a large ad. in a local paper. I can't see it myself. Unless Maharishi drops the price to a much lower price. I think this is what he is planning to do. Another issue is, are these stores going to suit the mall mentality, or are they going to be kind of weird, with pictures of King Tony and all? Exactly, and incense and male vocal ghandarva ved.which sounds awful to most Westerners. And don't Aveda stores typically staffed by chic, glowing, 20ish women? And then next door at th TM spa, you have 57 yr old in-training-raja-Rodney, with a few teeth missing, pretty grey and bald, humped shoulders, scarily anemic looking, with a kind of babbling explanation with lots of strange words, as to why Sat Yuga is here, and why MAV cosmetics will let you live forever. And 56 yr old in-training Rajini Roberta, in sari, with painted on blissy smile, staring blankly throughough out the store, constantly sipping hot water and yelling into the phone that she need lunch at exactly 12:10 or her vatta will explode. And the occasional Purusha skeleton walks out of the back with a blanket and a Jaguar skin drapped over, and the Ghandarva Ved pundit sitting outside for a smoke, looking lost and worried, and occasionally some dignitory turns up in pomp and ceremony, a white chariot pulled by white horses, and the CCP guy scurries away from staring at the plastic mini Jyotish observatory to ring the bell of invinciblity, and unveil the sign that says 'Down with Democracy, and announces over the PA, that everyone must have a valid badge to enter Sat Yug. It sounds pretty interesting the more we look at it. Maybe that explains David Lynch's involvement in the TMO. He waa really just trying to get ideas and images for his next bizarre movie. 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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on 4/9/05 5:12 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 9, 2005, at 6:06 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: Any bets that they will be selling their Maharishi Churna, Maharishi Honey, Maharishi peanut butter, etc. on the shelves of those store fronts? I would be surprised if they did not. I think that's the explicit intention. To offer everything the movement offers - products, techniques, etc. - in one location. 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/9/05 10:09 AM, akasha_108 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And don't Aveda stores typically staffed by chic, glowing, 20ish women? And then next door at th TM spa, you have 57 yr old in-training-raja-Rodney, with a few teeth missing, pretty grey and bald, humped shoulders, scarily anemic looking, with a kind of babbling explanation with lots of strange words, as to why Sat Yuga is here, and why MAV cosmetics will let you live forever. And 56 yr old in-training Rajini Roberta, in sari, with painted on blissy smile, staring blankly throughough out the store, constantly sipping hot water and yelling into the phone that she need lunch at exactly 12:10 or her vatta will explode. It's not that bad. Here in town we have a MAPI store and the people working there seem nice and sane. They're not in their 20's though. Maybe the TMO could do both: hire young people in their 20s and hire Movement people in the 50s and 60s. Yeah, a cradle-to-grave minimum wage program. 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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In a message dated 4/9/05 10:25:59 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And don't Aveda stores typically staffed by chic, glowing, 20ish women? And then next door at th TM spa, you have 57 yr old in-training-raja-Rodney, with a few teeth missing, pretty grey and bald, humped shoulders, scarily anemic looking, with a kind of babbling explanation with lots of strange words, as to why Sat Yuga is here, and why MAV cosmetics will let you live forever. And 56 yr old in-training Rajini Roberta, in sari, with painted on blissy smile, staring blankly throughough out the store, constantly sipping hot water and yelling into the phone that she need lunch at exactly 12:10 or her vatta will explode.It's not that bad. Here in town we have a MAPI store and the people workingthere seem nice and sane. They're not in their 20's though. I think in most places it is that bad. I think the freaky ness of TMO people turns as many people off as the prices. But that might just be a regional thang. 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 To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
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In a message dated 4/9/05 11:12:57 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And the occasional Purusha skeleton walks out of the back with a blanket and a Jaguar skin drapped over, and the Ghandarva Ved pundit sitting outside for a smoke, looking lost and worried, and occasionally some dignitory turns up in pomp and ceremony, a white chariot pulled by white horses, and the CCP guy scurries away from staring at the plastic mini Jyotish observatory to ring the bell of invinciblity, and unveil the sign that says 'Down with Democracy", and announces over the PA, that everyone must have a valid badge to enter Sat Yug.It sounds pretty interesting the more we look at it. Lets also not forget the advanced technique teachers from India that want to be taken to a titty bar! 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 To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
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In a message dated 4/9/05 5:18:05 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Apr 9, 2005, at 6:06 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: Any bets that they will be selling their Maharishi Churna, Maharishi Honey, Maharishi peanut butter, etc. on the shelves of those store fronts? I would be surprised if they did not.I think that's the explicit intention. To offer everything the movementoffers - products, techniques, etc. - in one location. Waiting for Maharishi cigarettes. "Smoke yourself to enlightenment" 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 To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
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And the occasional Purusha skeleton walks out of the back with a blanket and a Jaguar skin drapped over, and the Ghandarva Ved pundit sitting outside for a smoke, looking lost and worried, and occasionally some dignitory turns up in pomp and ceremony, a white chariot pulled by white horses, and the CCP guy scurries away from staring at the plastic mini Jyotish observatory to ring the bell of invinciblity, and unveil the sign that says 'Down with Democracy", and announces over the PA, that everyone must have a valid badge to enter Sat Yug.It sounds pretty interesting the more we look at it.every day I know you more and more. 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 To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
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In a message dated 4/9/05 8:35:47 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, if he doesn't make the movieI am. Like his movies but not as darkjust more ridiculous and comical.like the characters that inhabit Fairfield. It is hilarious there. I always wanted to make a movie about it . So many eccentrics in one small place. Kind of like Best in Show and the world of showing dogs. 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 To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
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--- rudra_joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shiva will take care of any incorrect vastu. -I agree! that's how I got by. I have about 32 Siva Lingas at my house. Or used to but I gave some away. Do you worship them? Milk, ghee, sandal paste, mantras? That really gets them humming. Susan Chumsky had several dozen of them in her house in Fairfield many moons ago. That place was cookin'! __ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you worship them? Milk, ghee, sandal paste, mantras? That really gets them humming. Susan Chumsky had several dozen of them in her house in Fairfield many moons ago. That place was cookin'! *lol* Boy, was it ever! A Temple of Love! :-) 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you worship them? Milk, ghee, sandal paste, mantras? That really gets them humming. Susan Chumsky had several dozen of them in her house in Fairfield many moons ago. That place was cookin'! *lol* Boy, was it ever! A Temple of Love! :-) Hey, so you saw that upstairs room, Rory? Susan was definately the Shakti of Shiva! Yes, she invited me in to witness a private devotion to one of her shivalingams on the mantle. I enjoyed her Temple and her presence quite a bit. 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: OK, here's the poop
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- rudra_joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shiva will take care of any incorrect vastu. -I agree! that's how I got by. I have about 32 Siva Lingas at my house. Or used to but I gave some away. Do you worship them? Milk, ghee, sandal paste, mantras? That really gets them humming. Susan Chumsky had several dozen of them in her house in Fairfield many moons ago. That place was cookin'! just please don't ask about the mirror above her bed in berkeley days-- or the empty cans of whipped cream. 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: OK, here's the poop
oil massage? - Original Message - From: Rick Archer To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 5:17 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: OK, here's the poop on 4/9/05 5:12 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 9, 2005, at 6:06 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: Any bets that they will be selling their Maharishi Churna, Maharishi Honey, Maharishi peanut butter, etc. on the shelves of those store fronts? I would be surprised if they did not.I think that's the explicit intention. To offer everything the movementoffers - products, techniques, etc. - in one location.To subscribe, send a message to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/and click 'Join This Group!' 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 To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
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on 4/9/05 10:02 PM, Rory Goff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you worship them? Milk, ghee, sandal paste, mantras? That really gets them humming. Susan Chumsky had several dozen of them in her house in Fairfield many moons ago. That place was cookin'! Susan happens to be in town right now for the first time in years. 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emailed to me on the side: Got a long voicemail from someone on the course. Anyhoo...Turns out the whole thrust of this 'recertification' seems to be marketing. Within the next 2-3 months there will be 500 storefronts in malls. Each one will have all the MAPI and movement products, a largescreen TV with the M channel, a children's corner, a spa, a TM center. There's more I can't remember. He wanted to know the 5 high end malls in the area. They will hire 4 people working in each store plus a manager. A man and woman from the course will be supervising. AND GET THIS. MAHARISHI WILL BE PAYING FOR EVERYTHING. * So, in addition to the 4 employees and one manager, and a governor couple supervising, each one of the 500 mall stores will get one pundit? 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: OK, here's the poop
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emailed to me on the side: Got a long voicemail from someone on the course. Anyhoo...Turns out the whole thrust of this 'recertification' seems to be marketing. Within the next 2-3 months there will be 500 storefronts in malls. Each one will have all the MAPI and movement products, a largescreen TV with the M channel, a children's corner, a spa, a TM center. There's more I can't remember. He wanted to know the 5 high end malls in the area. They will hire 4 people working in each store plus a manager. A man and woman from the course will be supervising. AND GET THIS. MAHARISHI WILL BE PAYING FOR EVERYTHING. *** If the TMO is looking for high-end malls, that means they're not going to do the cheap strip mall option, and they're going to pay through the nose, like $36/sq.ft: http://retailtrafficmag.com/mag/retail_bad_news_retailers/ In addition, renters at malls usually have to pay a percentage of sales, something I doubt the TMO is going to be happy about: http://retailtrafficmag.com/mag/retail_hot_topic_long/ So high rents, maybe $30K/mo in salaries, sounds like a sure winner to me! Somebody should call in a consultant from Booz Allen Hamilton and bounce these ideas off somebody reasonable before they commit to long-term leases on a proposition that can't possibly work. 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
