Turq, these are great questions you ask about the meditating community here. There is a lot concern and there is a range of earnestness. These questions need also some like Sharalyn or Feste37 to try answering them too in their own voice.
It is way too nice of a Sunday afternoon to spend inside now. I'll think about what you are asking and try later to answer. -Doug in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" > <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > However what you are saying evidently has a lot of merit in the > > whole story of how it has gone here in FF for MMY and the TMorg. > > What is the number, 27K governors or tm-sidhas were taught? About a > > million TM meditators taught in North America? Now only some few > > hundreds rally at the call to come back? > > So Doug...you live in Fairfield, right? > > [ This is also a question for anyone who lives in > Fairfeld and who wants to 'log in' with an opinion. ] > > You must run into people around town, those who are > currently attending this course. Well, presumably > these people have looked around the dome and have > noticed the low numbers of people in them, given > the overall "pool" of Sidhas in the statistics you > list above. > > What do they THINK about those low numbers? > > I mean, here on FFL we're used to people questioning > their beliefs in or assumptions about the TM movement. > But I would suspect that many of the folks currently > on this course are *not* used to challenging their > assumptions about the TMO. > > But at this point it simply *can't* have slipped past > them that from that pool of 27,000 Sidhas, Maharishi > can inspire only 1400 to come to a course. > > That must be a mindboggler for them. > > They "heard the call" and went to the course. And now > they look around the room and see how few people in > the United States actually did that. A few of them > must be thinking, "Are there really only 1400 of us > LEFT in the whole United States?" > > And this must be compounded by realizing that at this > point the TMO actually has to offer to PAY people to > increase those numbers. > > So what are the people on the courses saying? What do > they think about all of this? > > Are they concerned, or is there some movement thought- > stopper that "explains it all" and enables them never > *to* think about the implications of these low numbers? > > I'm honestly curious, if anyone knows. TIA... > 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/